I'm not sure about Visual Studio parts as i primarily use Xamarin Studio on a Mac, this is the best if your developing production iOS apps with Xamarin as I find it's much faster to build and load up your apps. You also need a Mac to put into the AppStore, no matter what tech you use.
As far as how near Native, well essentially anything you can do in a Native app you can do in Xamarin, it's just a thin layer over the native API. Any slowness is programmer error. There's more to it than that, there's big learning curves and other frustrations but it's the best option we have. If you want to know more, your welcome to come to a hack day in Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne. Www.xamarinhackday.com or just drop me an email. On Wednesday, May 27, 2015, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Folks, could someone cut through the marketing woffle and clarify what is > actually possible with the new platform projects that have appeared in > Visual Studio 2015 (Ultimate preview) for iOS and Android? If you create > one of these project types it looks like a thin shim over Xamarin, simply > launching Xamarin inside VS2015. Sadly, I can't proceed because my licence > has expired and can't be updated in the dialog. I can only quit VS2015, but > in the background I see a "Download Xamarin" link. > > So, does this mean I still have to purchase and install Xamarin to develop > for iOS and Android in VS2015? It's quite expensive! > > Can anyone describe what the iOS and Android development experience is > like inside VS2015? I downloaded a Xamarin trial before Xmas and it > had gigabytes of dependencies on other SDKs, but I suppose that is > unavoidable. I never got to the use the trial as it expired before I found > time to try it. What's the deployment experience like? > > Most importantly ... how close can you get (or not get) to the native app > feel? > > *Greg K* > -- *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP* XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists www.xam-consulting.com Blog: www.michaelridland.com
