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starik36 on May 11, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and ...

Xamarin uses Cocoa Touch. It gets compiled to the same thing as something written in Swift. So definitely iOS Native.

mihaela on May 11, 2017 [–]

Not really the same thing...

UK-AL on May 11, 2017 | [–]

I believe the cococa touch API is exposed like for like in xamarin.

starik36 on May 16, 2017 | | [–]

You are correct. They actually have a tool that scans the Cocoa libraries and generates API bindings for Xamarin to use. Source: Miguel De Icaza on the .NET Rocks podcast.

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