David Ortinau on the Xamarin Blog:
Earlier this year, we surveyed Xamarin.Forms developers about the kinds of custom controls and extra platform code being written repeatedly that should be considered for support “in the box”. From these conversations, we created an initiative to deliver as many as we could in the next several releases. Just six weeks after shipping Xamarin.Forms 3.0 at Build 2018, we are excited to introduce Xamarin.Forms 3.1 with a batch of those enhancements to make your lives easier.
I shipped a Xamarin.Forms app on iOS and Android in 2017. I thoroughly enjoyed exploring and using Xamarin and in some circumstances, for some teams (especially those with deep C# experience) I’d wholeheartedly recommend Xamarin. The Xamarin team continues to keep on top of the latest OS/SDK/API releases as well as making it very easy for developers to ship cross platform applications.
Hopefully by the end of this year I’ll be able to say the same about React/React Native. I’m looking forward to exploring this deeper than I have in the past. I like to use different things so that I know what the best tool for each job is – rather than using the same tool for every project.