AppBlade vs Xamarin: What are the differences?
Developers describe AppBlade as "Tools for managing mobile applications, users, and devices during development, and beyond". AppBlade provides a platform that can manage mobile applications, users, and devices in one convenient tool. When connected to common tools (CI, GitHub, JIRA, BugZill, HipChat, and many more) AppBlade will completely automate the process of capturing builds, deploying them to devices, capturing feedback/crash reports/statistics, keeping applications updated, sending information back to other 3rd party tools, and removing applications from devices following testing. On the other hand, Xamarin is detailed as "Create iOS, Android and Mac apps in C#". Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
AppBlade and Xamarin are primarily classified as "Device Management" and "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by AppBlade are:
- crash reporting
- in-app feedback
- usage statistics
On the other hand, Xamarin provides the following key features:
- Cross-platform development- Thinking about supporting iOS, Android, Mac and Windows? Xamarin allows you to write it all in C#.
- Reuse existing code- Use your favorite .NET libraries in Xamarin apps. Easily use third-party native libraries and frameworks.
- Discover as you type- Explore APIs as you type with code autocompletion.