A comparison of the Xamarin.Forms and Android development ecosystems. Inspired by Templating in EE vs. Craft CMS.
| Xamarin.Forms | Android |
|---|---|
| OkHttp, Retrofit, Volley | RestSharp, HttpClient |
| Moshi | Json.NET |
| Gradle | .NET SDK, NuGet |
| Activity | ContentPage |
| Fragment | ContentPage, ContentView |
| Coroutine | Task |
| Room | SQLite-net, Akavache |
| Kotlin, Java | C# |
| Android Studio | Rider, Visual Studio |
| Espresso | UITest (no experience) |
| Mockito, Mockk | Moq, NSubstitute |
| JUnit | XUnit |
| assertk, assertj, Hamcrest | Fluent Assertions |
| Hilt, Dagger | Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection |
| Flow | No equivalent pattern* |
| RecyclerView | CollectionView |
| BindingAdapter | Converter |
| Repository | Repository |
| Adapter | No equivalent pattern* |
| View Model | View Model |
| LiveData | INotifyPropertyChanged, INotifyCollectionChanged |
*Or I don't know of one.