Ionic 2 vs Xamarin

Question

I have found a lot of articles (and forms) about Ionic vs Xamarin but they always talk about Ionic 1 or Xamarin when it was still paid for (so before march 2016 when it was acquired by Microsoft).

I have to research Ionic 2 vs (current) Xamarin and I know that both technologies have made huge advancements. Can anyone help me on my way with some sources or is it still too early to ask this question?

Answer 1

Xamarin: With one year of experience, I have realise it is really flexible IDE to use. The amazing part about Xamarin is you have 2 option, i) go native ii) go cross platform, this make it open on what kind usage you prefer and how you want to go about.

OS Support/Deployment to: Windows, iOS, Android, Mac

Languages Used: XML, C#

Ionic: especially Ionic-2, It amazing for all HTML, CSS, and JS users to build application for web, mobile applications. I haven't seen its deployment for windows phone(if it is, then i am not sure) With Ionic, forget all your MVVM structured coding. But the new implementation of version-2 parallel with angular-2(typescript) it might make it possible to implement.

OS Support/Deployment to: iOS, Android, Web(HTML/CSS)

languages Used: HTML, CSS, Angular-2

Star Rating Xamarin - Mobile and PC Dev - 4/5 stars on usage of IDE and deployment. There are immediate help available upon stuck through Xamarin Forums. Documentation is little vague.

Ionic-2 - Mobile and Web Dev - 3/5 stars on usable and compatibility. Its hard to find some answers to specific question, rest ionic docs are great at documentation and implementation.

Hope this helps. PS: This is completely my own view as i have used both of this tools personally. Comments are welcomed.