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Jacquers wrote: Have you had a look at Flutter ?
Looks good from the web site. I wonder if it works well.
Have you tried it? Any success?
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I'm keen to give it a try, but the setup doesn't look so streamlined yet.
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Xamarin’s implementation in Visual Studio was a bit buggy - at first.
I use it now for Android, iOS, and UWP (there are still Windows tablets and laptops in wide usage).
I agree that to make good apps you need to understand the different platforms, but a good developer should learn that concurrent with the language platform.
Xamarin Forms in Visual Studio is a viable competitor - today - to Swift and Java, et al in anti-Microsoft land. The only remaining factor is the intelligence, experience, and discernment of the developer. And how much the developer likes maintaining different code bases for different OSs.
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I'm still holding out hope for Xamarin in the future.
For now I'll probably keep learning native, because one thing I find is that when I do evaluate Xamarin each time it gets a bit better and I can also see the underlying native stuff there too.
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Hopefully they will earn your trust. But, I do not have to wait for the future. It works fine now. The biggest thing they lack is a designer for XAML (and likewise for HTML in Blazor).
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I have worked on hybrid development before. The project was scrapped before launch as being not needed because the company had a mobile friendly website. This was before Xamarin was more than a beta. I looked at Xamarin as a solution then and didn't like. I have gone back recently and really don't see much that would change my mind. Unfortunately, some of the better hybrid solutions have died out and really, for Visual Studio, Xamarin has become the only option. Personally, if I had to choose between Xamarin and having to learn native development from scratch, I would go native as Xamarin just seems half baked and overly difficult.
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You do know Xamarin is not hybrid, but 100% native, right?
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The last time I looked, Xamarin doesn't produce XCode or Java directly, that makes it hybrid. Xamarin may produce native code as an output but it still isn't what I would consider native development. Similar points is that .Net code doesn't run on any mobile device that I know of. You produce the code in .Net and then it outputs what is needed for each of the different platforms. I am pretty sure that is the definition of hybrid development. Of course, maybe I have been wrong about the definition of hybrid development for years now.
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Xamarin results in native code on each OS, though implemented differently on the device than if writing in Java or Swift. For goodness sakes, Xamarin uses XCode on a Mac when it compiles!
Hybrid mobile apps are those that have a host shell on the mobile device, but run mobile-friendly web apps. Part native, part web - hence, hybrid.
Xamarin at least uses the native UI controls. From what I have seen, a well-written Xamarin Forms app and a java on Android or Swift on iOS app would not perform with a difference a user would notice. And poorly-written apps in any language would run poorly.
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You for sure know this red notification flag, near the rep Points , which Shows you when sombody answered a Answer/Comment/Message. I still not receive it since about one week.
Is it only me?
Is it a matter of Profile Setup?
Btw: I don't want to write this in B&S at the moment
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I've got it - but then I have 68,000 of them queued up. Last one just over an hour ago.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Did not got a notification for your message here.
Ok, maybe you can move some of your 68K notifications over to me 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Not sure if I've ever seen a flag. I previously saw an indicator (possibly a flag) that indicated I had one or more pending messages (forget what it looks like). Despite having many incidents, requiring notices recently, I have not seen this same indicator lately.
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That is maybe my english It is maybe correctly called an indicator.
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Not my intent, to call out an insignificant (at best) difference in wording.
It's my native language (folks on the right side of the pond may disagree  ), but I still worry about precise grammar (as I know it).
That said, I simply recall an indicator (i.e. color shift, font, iconography, or wording) that seems inconsistent with other "real world"examples that exist.
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Then let us call it red/White Widget 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Widget it is  That said, I haven't seen the widget you mention associated with their corresponding article lately. This is possibly a temporary Android issue. Though, I wish they would provide the eyes.
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0x01AA wrote: Btw: I don't want to write this in B&S at the moment
Not needed... there are several posts speaking about it
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I noticed odd behaviour too, it seemed to have lost count, that's what you get when using Russian symbols 
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I have also noticed some anomalies with notifications within the last week. Some are repeats, sometimes the display was blank. Reputation was off on some pages too, but always fine on the home page
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Same here. For the past week or so, it's been acting...wonky. That's a technical term.
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It's not just you:
Bugs and Suggestions[^]
This morning, I had quite a few notifications, but no flag. After reading them all, I now have the flag telling me I've got 9 notifications, but there are none to read.
There was also a reply to a message that didn't appear in the notifications list at all.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Received a notification just now. This "immediately" after I changed my password maybe coincidence. Can you please write a short reply for cross checking
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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No flag for me for your reply.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Whatever you want[^] - There is always a price to pay!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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