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XAMARIN forms or Universal Windows Platform? what is best for surface devices

I have a native IOS application, developed in Objective C and SQLite as the local database. The backend services are developed using WCF which sync the data to the SQL server and back to the SQLite.
Now I need to to rewrite the application which will work on the Surface Devices.
What is the best approach to proceed? XAMARIN forms or Universal Windows Platform?
Any suggestion will be really appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

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Hello,

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XAMARIN forms or Universal Windows Platform?

Actually only UWP supports Surface Devices, but we can integrate a uwp project into a blank `Xamarin.Forms` project , that is to say Xamarin.Forms supports Surface as well .

If we just need a simple application (local database + web request) and there is no need to call much native UWP API(in fact we can use dependency service) , Xamarin.Forms is a better choice .

What's more , if we want your application to support iOS or Android device later , we don't need to add extra code .


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