# Xamarin.Forms to Android Comparison

| Android                    | Xamarin.Forms                                    |
| -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| Android Studio             | Rider, Visual Studio                             |
| Kotlin, Java               | C#                                               |
| Gradle                     | .NET SDK, NuGet                                  |
| OkHttp, Retrofit, Volley   | RestSharp, HttpClient                            |
| Moshi                      | Json.NET                                         |
| Activity                   | ContentPage                                      |
| Fragment                   | ContentPage, ContentView                         |
| Coroutine                  | Task                                             |
| Room                       | SQLite-net, Akavache                             |
| 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 |

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_\*Or I don't know of one._