
Having spent time developing apps for clients with Xamarin Forms for the past 2 years I decided to create this article to provide web designers and web developers an insight into using Xamarin Forms to develop apps and some lessons learned during my time developing with it. With Xamarin Forms, designers and developers could build native apps for iOS, Android and Windows from a single, shared C# codebase. Xamarin Forms is a mobile application platform that comes bundled with Microsoft’s Visual Studio IDE available on both Windows and Mac. The answer to their problem was Xamarin Forms.
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How to support the development of these mobile platforms whilst utilising the existing design and development skills of their team, without the need to invest time learning new programming languages like Java for Android, Objective-C for iOS and C# for Windows.

However, as the mobile app became more popular with the increase of sales on smartphones and tablets across the three main platforms, iOS, Android, and Windows this left existing design agencies, web designers and developers at a bit of a crossroads. to help aid designers and developers with the design of mobile responsive websites.


There has been many frameworks developed such as Bootstrap, Foundation etc. In this past decade, we have seen websites redesigned to scale and respond to a variety of mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones to provide a “like” mobile native app UI. This year the mobile app turns 10 years old.
