Alpha Software | Alpha Anywhere vs. Xamarin Whitepaper

Two of the Best Mobile App Development Companies Go Head-to-Head

Alpha Anywhere and Xamarin are both well-respected mobile app development platforms for creating applications that run on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. Both can (and have) been used to create powerful business applications. However, the approach they take to the mobile app development process differs in several important ways. This white paper highlights and provides examples of differences between these two platforms and aims to address the question "What is the best mobile app development tool?"

Alpha Anywhere wins in head to head comparisons!

Alpha Anywhere includes both the clientside tools and an application server.

Xamarin includes tools only for building the client-side portion of an application.

Alpha allows you to build one UI (interface) for iOS, Android, and Windows.

Xamarin requires the developer to build separate UIs all three platforms

With Alpha, at no point during the development process do you need a Mac, not even to publish an iOS application to the App Store.

Xamarin requires a Mac computer to build iOS applications. Alpha allows you to build iOS applications on Windows PC.

Alpha is a low-code environment, which can be extended using JavaScript.

Xamarin is a code intensive solution that requires fluency in the C# programming language.

Alpha allows the UI and its functionality to be defined and refined at the same time.

Xamarin uses of architecture that abstracts the UI from its functionality.

Alpha supports Windows Phone directly.

Xamarin relies on Visual Studio for Windows Phone support.

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The Alpha platform is the only unified mobile and web app development and deployment environment with distinct “no-code” and “low-code” components. Using the Alpha TransForm no-code product, business users and developers can take full advantage of all the capabilities of the smartphone to turn any form into a mobile app in minutes, and power users can add advanced app functionality with Alpha TransForm's built-in programming language. IT developers can use the Alpha Anywhere low-code environment to develop complex web or mobile business apps from scratch, integrate data with existing systems of record and workflows (including data collected via Alpha TransForm), and add additional security or authentication requirements to protect corporate data.

Alpha Software Corporation, based in Massachusetts, produces award-winning software that speeds mobile and web app development and deployment for business and IT. The core technology includes two components. Alpha Anywhere®, a full-stack low-code app development platform for building and deploying web and mobile apps. In just hours, Alpha TransForm® turns complex paper forms into powerful mobile forms that speed data collection.

Alpha Software is an InfoWorld Technology of the Year award winner, and scores near-perfect reviews from customers on crowdsourced review sites.
Customers rate Alpha Software highly for its speed of development, flexibility, offline apps, rich feature set and ability to scale predictably. For more information, visit https://www.alphasoftware.com/

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Alpha Anywhere vs. Xamarin

Two of the Best Mobile App Development Companies Go Head-to-Head

Alpha Anywhere vs. Xamarin

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