I held a webinar for the APAC region: Getting Started on Xamarin.Forms with Powerful Tools from Infragistics Ultimate UI.
I explained Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms Overview, Pros and Cons, and then demonstrated Productivity Tools below:
One question I received in the webinar was the performance difference between Native apps vs Xamarin/Xamarin.Forms. In the webinar, I commented there should be overhead.
I spent some time after the webinar and found an interesting article.
It seems there are "some" performance gaps between Native vs Xamarin/Xamarin.Forms, but as the article mentioning, a human can notice delay above 500 ms.
Most of the results in the article are smaller than the threshold and I would say it's still worth to choose Xamarin or Xamarin.Forms for your native mobile app development framework.
In case you missed the webinar, you can download the presentation here.
Getting Started on Xamarin.Forms with Powerful Tools from Infragistics Ultimate UI
In addition, the video is available at Infragistics YouTube Channel.
At the last, Productivity tools from Infragistics are available at Visual Studio Marketplace for free.
Visual Studio Marketplace - Infragistics
I confirmed with our Product Development team that we are going to update the tool in April so that the latest stable version of Licensed NuGet feed (18.1.5) will be supported by our Toolbox. You can continue to use 17.2 builds now. There are tutorials and videos available for productivity tools.
Next Steps:
- Download the free 30-day trial of Ultimate UI for Xamarin
- Watch video tutorials for Productivity Tools
- Try Write-fast, Run-fast tutorials
You can also download the sample I created in the webinar from the bottom of this entry. It is created by AppMap, then used Infragistics Toolbox to add our XamDataGrid, then used Control Configurator to set the source of grid and features.
Let's get started!
