Xamarin?

>>59090304
>non-native .NET
>good
Dubious.

>>59090304
Its faster than Java and ~ 30% slower than using C/C++

>>59090304
It's a mobile framework. I mean there's OSS options if you don't want to be a fag, but do u.

>>59090366
lol

>>59091164
what

xamarin compiles to native app.

no fuckin swift or java bullshit.

write F# and be a god.

If you are a fag you could do something like cordova for an interpreted solution.

I used it for some C# mono crap

worked fine, no real problems. definitely better than eclipse

>>59090304
Cordova/React native. Much better community.

Hold out for the eventual rust/golang frameworks if you need native perf but decent language

Debugging Xamarin.Forms is a nightmare

>>59090304
on the android side you will want to kill yourself later than if you'd used java i'd predict
on the ios side it's much easier to share a code base.
check out kotlin, it makes jvm development fun
also react native but it sounds like it'd be slower than mono
>>59091190
xamarin is free and open source under the mit licence.
http://open.xamarin.com/
>>59093811
>cordova

>>59090304
it is decent, I tried to use it a bit and then I realized I can't do shit because I need to know how android actually works to get anywhere

>>59090304
Just use react native.

>>59090304
Xamarin.Forms is really good for quickly getting a prototype up and running. Or if your app only needs basic things (a business app). When you have to do pixel perfect things is when it gets tricky (as is with any cross platform dev tool).

No fuck no
its expensive and not worth it

if your option is to use .net framework
go with apache cordova

>>59090304
It's fantastic if you're already familiar with C#.

Not sure if you'd go out of your way to use it otherwise, but standing up an app that worked on iOS and Android was fucking cake with some Azure backend.

Overall, I like it a lot, and it's pretty nice that Microsoft bought it and made it free and open source.

>>59096034
>its expensive
It's literally free as in freedom and free beer.

It's a lot of work. They soon tell your "almost 90% of the code is common!". Anyone with 1hour of experience in real programming knows that means hell on earth.