Apache Cordova vs. Xamarin

Apache Cordova

30 Reviews and Ratings

Xamarin

44 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Apache Cordova	Score10 out of 10	N/A	N/A	N/A
Xamarin	Score6 out of 10	N/A	N/A	N/A

Pricing

Apache Cordova

Xamarin

No answers on this topic

Xamarin: Free

Pricing Offerings
Apache Cordova	Xamarin
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Apache Cordova	Xamarin
Considered Both Products	Apache Sazzad Hossain Sharkar Chief Operating Officer (C.O.O.) in Information Technology at Akhaura Info Foundation (Education Management, 11-50 employees) Chose Apache Cordova Apache Cordova is the mother of all other frameworks. The Ionic developed framework is well suited for development but most of their features are offered by paid services. As Apache Cordova is open source and has a license to modify it, it has no legal problems to work with it. … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Jordan Max Software Developer in Engineering at Newser (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Xamarin Apache Cordova is nothing more than a HTML Web VIew App. I've built an app using Cordova and it was a mess. With Xamarin, you get the platform level capabilities, which make the performance, in theory, no different than real native development. Cordova is not suitable for any … Incentivized Helpful? amar khan Senior Web Developer in Research & Development at Webwingz - Premium Digital Agency since 2000 (Computer & Network Security, 51-200 employees) Chose Xamarin Xamarin is a good platform compared to Cordova, as it gives better API access, documentation and customer support as well as a robust community. It allows you to develop code using native Visual Studio and helps the developer to reuse the codebase for different platforms, … Incentivized Helpful? Siya Ul Haqu Director in Information Technology at Headfitted Solutions Pvt Ltd (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Xamarin In Native app development we need to employ specialized developers solving some business problems in different technologies. Xamarin solves that problem to some extent delivering a native application experience. Hybrid has the same code base but suffers from lack of performance. Incentivized Helpful? Calvin Fisher Director of Product Development in Engineering at Eight-Bot, Inc. (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Xamarin None of the HTML-based cross-platform solutions can easily provide a native look and feel like Xamarin can. I've had to rescue multiple organizations that went down this path only to be disappointed with the results. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Apache Cordova	Xamarin
Likelihood to Recommend	7.5 (6 ratings)	7.0 (12 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)