June 2021 – EverythingAboutIntune

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Android Studio Vs Xamarin: Similarities and Differences in App development

My name is Saurabh Sarkar and I am an Intune engineer in Microsoft. I have a YouTube channel ‘EverythingAboutIntune’ and you can […]

Android Studio	Xamarin
We can develop only .apk	We can develop .apk and .ipa and reuse major chunk of the code
Has its own installer	Installed with Visual Studio
Uses Java\Kotlin	Uses objective C\Swift
In comparison, better documentation is available	Documentation is not quite as good
Better layout designer as different kind of constrains can be created	The layout designer is effective but not quite as good.
Intellegent XML editor for designing the layout which auto populates and suggests	The XML edit is not as good
Adding any library to the app’s code is very easy	If the library is not released by google then its tough to integrate the same to the app
Created by the creator!! Android Studio is a tool developed by Google who has also developed the Android OS hence is always upto date.	Xamarin is owned by Microsoft.