We performed a comparison between Appium and Xamarin Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Mobile Development Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Obviously because of automation, it reduces manual testing efforts."
"The way Appium server interacts with mobile apps is fantastic. It provides all the information about the elements inside the app, Android as well as iOS. I can interact with the element quickly, just type some text or get some text values from the element - whether it's a drop-down, or web text, or a native element."
"Appium helps me to do as much as much as I want to."
"It runs completely flawlessly and seamlessly every day."
"Appium's best feature is that it supports multiple frameworks."
"We do not need to pay for the solution. It’s free."
"It's an open-source solution with a very large community and available documentation."
"Appium provides a record-and-play option, and the commands are the same as those that Selenium uses. So a person who has some exposure to Selenium will be able to write a piece of code in Appium."
"Being able to use the .NET framework and platform have me creating applications better than anyone who develops on Windows."
"Because of the C# programming language, we can train our .NET developers to learn Xamarin and develop mobile apps easily."
"On the market, compared to everyone else, they're the top solution. They're the best solution out there that I could see."
"Their leadership is exceptional at both listening to the customer base and delivering innovative, best-in-class products."
"The solution is easy to understand and has banking integrated. The shorter development time, the bugging and as well as availability of a lot of documentation on the web. Also the native integration is easy."
"Plugins like MvvmCross make a developer’s life easy."
"It significantly reduces development and test costs, and ensures that there is synergy between the platforms on product features and user experience."
"The most valuable feature of the Xamarin Platform is the deployment."
"We haven't been able to fully leverage Appium for multiple reasons. I think number one is just that the tests take a long time to run. We have had some issues around just the results themselves and how predictable they are, but those are not issues with Appium directly."
"If it had more facility for configuration it would be a spectacular solution."
"An application developed on the Unity platform, such as a gaming application, objects are moving in that case. Interacting with those elements is still lacking in Appium. Appium doesn't have the internal library to play with the Unity platform. That is a huge lack right now."
"Support-wise, it could be better."
"We need some bug fixes for nested elements."
"I rarely use Appium nowadays because I'm now at the managerial level, but the last time I used it, whenever I selected and clicked on an element, Appium was very slow. I tried to debug it, but I still couldn't find the problem, so this is an area for improvement in the solution. Another area for improvement lies with the connector and server. For example, the effort to get into the local machine sometimes causes the emulator to become slow, which then leads to failure in testing, and this is the usual issue I've encountered from Appium. An additional feature I'd like added to Appium in its next release is being able to do automation in iOS without using XPath and the name of the element. In Xcode, you can use previous UI tests for detecting elements, but in Appium, you have to use Xpath and the element name instead of being able to directly put the X-UiPath, which is what you can do in Xcode. In iOS as well, sometimes the element doesn't have a name or a path. Sometimes, there's also no element."
"There is always a concern about the amount of code that is required to enhance the automation process. The idea of having less code or no code is what we would like to see in future updates."
"One thing which can be really helpful is that there is some kind of a recorder made available rather than scripting everything."
"In Xamarin.Forms, we have the option to preview our UI designs, but the functionality can be limited. So, this is not fully functional. Since I have some knowledge of iOS, where when you write code or design in the storyboard, your design is immediately visible in the preview."
"All Xamarin library issues need to be taken care of as a top priority."
"Xamarin Platform's performance base could be improved."
"We have noticed that there have been stability-based performance issues with this product, which need to be improved."
"The Xamarin.Forms could improve."
"They need to take a step towards independence from the UI platform. It takes a lot of time to adapt the native controls."
"The performance needs improvement, especially the dev tools, and also the ultimate output of the mobile applications."
"The file size is a bit big, so you have to make certain layers."
Appium is ranked 7th in Mobile Development Platforms with 25 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 4th in Mobile Development Platforms with 39 reviews. Appium is rated 8.0, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Appium writes "It's easy to launch applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Xamarin Platform writes "It's about to be retired and replaced with an inferior product, but offers excellent cross-platform development capabilities". Appium is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio, Perfecto, Apache JMeter and SmartBear TestComplete, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Ionic, Apple Xcode, OutSystems, Mendix and Tricentis Tosca. See our Appium vs. Xamarin Platform report.
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