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> I'm pretty skeptical of frameworks that abstract away a whole system.

But that’s what every platform does. You only notice it when it doesn’t work.

It has improved a lot in the last year, I started working with it just as Microsoft acquired Xamarin, it was buggy as hell, now it is really solid.

People have been saying that since Xamarin came out though, myself included a few years back.

I often get the feeling that what has happened in "the last year" is that the developer saying it has gotten to know Xamarin well enough to avoid the warts.

This has been my experience with pretty much all of the write once run anywhere cross compiled mobile app frameworks