Cordova vs Xamarin with Brian Noyes
When do you choose Cordova over Xamarin and vice versa? Carl and Richard chat with Brian Noyes, who has built apps on both stacks and talks through the details! The conversation starts out on Cordova, which takes a bit of effort to assemble a coherent code-build-debug cycle from. As Brian says, your productivity is directly measureable by how quickly you can get around that cycle, and he's worked hard to optimize it. Things are a bit more integrated on the Xamarin side, and with the recent announcements, a lot more financially feasible also - the hybrid mobile development space is heating up!
Guests:
Brian Noyes
Brian Noyes is CTO and Co-founder of Solliance (www.solliance.net), a Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft MVP, and Pluralsight author. Brian specializes in building rich HTML and XAML clients and the services that back them with ASP.NET, WCF, and Azure. Brian is author of nine Pluralsight courses, four books, and dozens of magazine and online publication articles. He is a frequent top rated speaker at conferences worldwide including Microsoft TechEd, VSLive!, DevIntersection, DevConnections, DevTeach, DevReach, and others. Brian got started programming as a hobby while flying F-14 Tomcats in the U. S. Navy, later turning his passion for software development into his current career. You can reach Brian through his blog at http://briannoyes.net or on Twitter @briannoyes.
Links:
- Hubl.in https://hubl.in/
- Prism on GitHub https://github.com/PrismLibrary
- Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/cordova-vs.aspx
- Ionic Framework http://ionicframework.com/
- GapDebug https://www.genuitec.com/products/gapdebug/
- Visual Studio Code http://code.visualstudio.com/
- Xamarin https://www.xamarin.com/
- Ripple Chrome Plugin https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ripple-emulator-beta/geelfhphabnejjhdalkjhgipohgpdnoc?hl=en
- AWS Device Farm https://aws.amazon.com/device-farm/
- Xamarin Test Cloud https://www.xamarin.com/test-cloud
- HockeyApp http://hockeyapp.net/features/
- TestFlight Beta Testing https://developer.apple.com/testflight/
- Tools for Apache Cordova http://taco.tools/