We performed a comparison between SAP Mobile Platform 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."One valuable feature of SAP Mobile Platform is its enterprise-grade standard and maintained APIs, available out of the box for easy integration with various systems."
"It's not that difficult to set up."
"Technical support is helpful."
"Two of the very fascinating features that make SAP Mobile Platform stand out from other platforms are its offline capability and integration capability."
"Both platforms, the SAP Mobile Platform, and SAP, are highly valuable for our company because they facilitate integration, which can be expensive. It's very convenient to connect and create billing accounts through the SAP Mobile Platform."
"The initial setup is not overly complex."
"The ability to share a platform-agnostic common core, or business logic, enables a mobile developer to write code for all targeted mobile platforms, independent of the individual developer's specialization in iOS, Android, or Windows. This helps not only during development but also enables easier maintenance of deployed apps, since bug fixes or feature additions can be often made in the platform-agnostic layer."
"The cross platform ability is a great asset."
"Xamarin Platform enables you to use a single code language. This is beneficial for Android, iOS, and Windows platforms, so they can be developed over application or built over application."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"You can create one solution in C Sharp."
"Being able to use the .NET framework and platform have me creating applications better than anyone who develops on Windows."
"I like Renderers in Xamarin. They allow us to use native-platform controls easily."
"Xamarin.Forms reduced the effort and time to build and market our solution, market our features, and get our solution into production."
"If it was low code or no code it would be ideal."
"The cost of the SAP Mobile Platform is high, and there is room for improvement in its pricing."
"The licensing model is a bit dated."
"SAP has announced that they'll be ending the support on the SAP platform."
"One drawback is that SAP Mobile Platform apps are only available through the browser, making offline capability more challenging to implement."
"The toolkit to develop front end applications, especially native applications, is not that good."
"The Xamarin.Forms could improve."
"Regarding improvements, there are still some limitations with Xamarin, particularly regarding access to core functionality in Android and iOS."
"There are compatibility issues between versions of various Xamarin components."
"For beginners, the entire setup can be overwhelming because it involves setting up development environments for iOS, Android, and Windows at the same time if you want to target all three."
"The debugging functionality could be improved in Xamarin Platform because sometimes it takes very long to move through the stages of setting up the application build to the final deployment on a mobile app that resides in a physical device."
"The android application compilation time needs to be reduced."
"The solution always has room for improvement with price, integration, stability, and documentation."
"They need to take a step towards independence from the UI platform. It takes a lot of time to adapt the native controls."
SAP Mobile Platform is ranked 12th in Mobile Development Platforms with 7 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 4th in Mobile Development Platforms with 39 reviews. SAP Mobile Platform is rated 8.0, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP Mobile Platform writes "Flexible, well-designed, and offers good scalability". 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". SAP Mobile Platform is most compared with OutSystems, Android SDK, Ionic and IBM MobileFirst, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Ionic, Appium, OutSystems, Apple Xcode and Mendix. See our SAP Mobile Platform vs. Xamarin Platform report.
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