It might have been quite repeated quite a lot of times now about the statistics showing how much a person uses his mobile. That too throughout the day, that comes nearly to 80% of the full duration they are awake. Xamarin is one popular mobile development platform that can be used to create proper cross platform applications. But how to know what is the level of the apps created with Xamarin, because unless we see an already famous app developed on Xamarin we won’t be satisfied. So, in this blog we will look into some of the popular and fully functional apps made with Xamarin.
Xamarin for a very long time has been taking the world by storm. In its 7 plus years of existence, it has grown to 1.6 million developers across 120 countries and was acquired by Microsoft to become part of its Visual Studio environment. Because of this sole reason, Xamarin becomes the choice of more than 15000 companies in fields like energy, transport, media, healthcare, and many more.
Some of the popular examples of apps that are made with Xamarin are –
Why Xamarin is becoming so popular is because of the reusability of the code. Y building applications for all three major platforms, the developers can share up to 75 percent of the code. Moreover, using Xamarin.Forms, a library with more than 40 cross-platform controls and layouts mapped to native controls, the shared codebase can reach 100 percent.
Olo is one of the most popular apps made with Xamarin. Olo is the app which is helping the largest restaurant brands embrace digital hospitality and provide online ordering services to 30 million customers. Started as a text message ordering service, Olo soon tries one of the hybrid JavaScript frameworks, which unfortunately made developers deal with too many abstractions, resulting in sometimes taking weeks to finish simple features.
