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#18 in Android
#5 in C#
#4 in .NET
#9 in iOS
Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev | Jan 2023
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It's open source and can be forked if necessary: https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile
Ask HN: Are you using .NET to write cross-platform desktop or mobile apps? | Aug 2022
As mentioned Xamarin is now MAUI[0]

The only app I know of using it is Bitwarden[1]

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/what-is-maui

[1] https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile

Ask HN: Can there be open sourced subscriber based mobile apps? | May 2022
https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile Would be one example. You can subscribe to premium features and all the stuff is open source.
Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust | Dec 2021
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Bitwarden Mobile: https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile

I will freely admit I am strongly biased against Xamarin as there are so few cases where I think it's unequivocally the right choice, and Bitwarden isn't one of them. It would make more sense to take the work done in their desktop electron app and use that as part of an Ionic hybrid mobile app than to screw around with the layercake of bugs and mismatched APIs that Xamarin is. Moreover, since this is a serious app from a security point of view it really should go full vendor native IMO.
Password Managers | Jun 2021
> I use Chrome, but the other major browsers like Edge or Firefox are fine too. They can isolate their trusted UI from websites, they don’t break the sandbox security model, they have world-class security teams, and they couldn’t be easier to use.

I know its about browser integration, but take a look at the repository of Lockwise android app[1] that released the last version 6 months ago and Bitwarden app[2] with last release being 1 month ago (I tried to find the firefox browser version but its a mess to analyse the activity of it). I know firefox has a much larger team but I it doesnt necessarily mean that more competent devs taking are taking care of the browser password manager's security than 1Password for example - maybe this is true for Google Chrome but who knows about Firefox and Edge.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla-lockwise/lockwise-android [2] https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile

Backdoored password manager stole data from as many as 29K enterprises | Apr 2021
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The mobile clients are written in Xamarin https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile
Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test their apps on Windows | May 2017
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There's nothing in that description that indicates the Slack app is written using Xamarin. From that link:

"Slack's friendly, easy to use messaging platform is the future of work. Given its preeminence in the enterprise and among mobile workforces, mobile is critical to Slack’s success. Over three million daily users rely on Slack to communicate with their teams, and Xamarin Test Cloud helps Slack make sure customers are productive in all scenarios. Its mobile quality engineers view test reports to see how features look and behave on devices — and can quickly solve customer issues."

Sounds like they just use Xamarin Test Cloud.

Here's a list of decent looking Xamarin apps:

- BitWarden (it's made the rounds recently on HN)[1]

- Microsoft Pix [2]

- A bunch of games that look pretty slick (I've downloaded a few and flipped through some of the screens) [3]

[1] https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile

[2] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/microsoftpix...

[3] https://www.xamarin.com/customers/gaming