Development cost
Finally, technical feasibility is another important aspect of objectively analyzing the design requirements of an application. In some cases, the development costs of creating a custom control to mimic a web application outweighs the business or platform value added to the native counterpart of the same application.
Each mobile platform that Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms target offers a different user experience and a different set of controls. Xamarin.Forms create an abstraction on top of this set of native controls so that the same abstraction is rendered using native views on a specific platform. In this context, trying to introduce new design elements or customize controls that are inherently different in appearance and behave ...
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