mihies

How is self hosting better than paying artists?

Yep, that’s the case. Who knows what’s causing lags. It still can be a poorly implemented list, it could be OS doing something else it could be something else. It would be interesting testing same app on different devices.

Nah, it’s not GC unless lists are really poorly implemented.

🍿 I’m here for my friend

Though you have an option to buy a version with more memory, don’t you? IOW you have an option to go either way, what’s wrong with that!

Do apps requiring locked phones (Netflix, baking etc.) work?

Yep, I have been using Forms for a little while (I was invited to first beta, mind you), gave up. Not worth it in longer term, probably not even in short term. I guess MAUI is more or less similar. Perhaps the working compromise is Xamarin native, where you can share code between the two platforms and write native UI and interact with native libraries. It works as long as libraries have bindings (a lot of them have, if they don’t you can still create them yourself, but that’s not trivial), but you still have friction and additional problems, such as handling different application lifetimes. Also tried flutter, which suffers from similar problems, though bindings are done in different way, perhaps more natural.
TL;DR; A lot has changed since I’ve tried crossplatform, Jetpack Compose/Kotlin and Swift/Swift UI happened. And they both have superior design time features and are great in many aspects. I’d go with native today.

Right, no, missed that part somehow. I’m on stock.

I don’t see any visible lag on 6a. Just some progress animation until images are loaded. Am I missing something?

Why would anybody still use X?