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I read that Flutter is biased towards Android and that iOS support therefore falters.

I've therefore decided to write my iOS app in Xamarin.iOS, instead of a cross-platform solution like Xamarin.Forms or Flutter. The Xamarin.Android version already works perfectly, but my attempt at a Xamarin.Forms version had dismal performance and simply couldn't match the native Android version.

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Not sure the scope of your app, however I have built several sizable apps using xamarin forms over the past 3 years, and over the past 2 years the forms apps have improved to have pretty much identical performance for me. My apps are mostly data collection forms with offline data sync and report viewing with charts & graphs.

Also try looking into xamarin's successor "Maui" which I have been playing with and am impressed with the speed and code organization, even though it is still in beta/preview.

I'm anxious to try Maui but also want to see it come out of preview first, which is supposed to happen some time in Q2 from my looking earlier today (with RCs hitting this quarter).

The thing that bothers me about Xamarin.Forms and hence MAUI is that it's never finished. Even now Xamarin.Forms feels like it's in Beta, almost a decade after its first release.

Now with MAUI we're moving into yet another long period of instability and change. I'm fed up with this.

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