Xamarin is a cross-platform app development framework that allows developers to build native mobile applications using a single codebase. It was founded in 2011 and later acquired by Microsoft in 2016.
Xamarin enables developers to write apps in C# and .NET, which can then be compiled to native code for each target platform, including iOS, Android, and Windows.
With Xamarin, developers can share a significant portion of their code across different platforms, reducing development time and effort while still providing native-like performance and user experience.
Xamarin offers two main approaches for building cross-platform apps :
Xamarin.Forms : This is a UI toolkit that allows developers to create a single, shared UI codebase using XAML and C#. Xamarin.Forms provides a way to build the user interface once and deploy it across multiple platforms.
Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android : These are libraries and tools that enable developers to build native iOS and Android apps using C# and .NET. With Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android, developers have access to the full range of platform-specific APIs and functionalities.
