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By Native iOS you mean not written in Objective-C/Swift using Cocoa Touch


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


Not really the same thing...


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


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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