Appium or Xamarin UI test - experiences and drawbacks

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this kind of questions because it is also a bit personal favor but what are your experiences with Xamarin UITest and/or Appium. Until now I only had experience with Appium but for our new project we maybe want to use Xamarin UITest.

Firstly, SO is usually not the right place for such questions as such questions usually get closed as off-topic and primarily opinion based. Luckily, xamarin.uitest is a very unpopular tag, hence, your question survived :)

For what Xamarin.UITest does, its actually not bad. The biggest issue to consider is that Xamarin.UITest requires your app to be written using Xamarin.Forms and for me, personally, this is the biggest drawback.

Other issues, that I've encountered:

• Scrolling is terribly slow
• Limited API (Only basic UI properties can be evaluated, see here)
• Minimal differences betqeen Android and iOS which can become really annoying, depending on your use case

Other than that, Xamarin.UITest is a pretty solid UI-testframework and if your app is written using Xamarin.Forms, I would recommend you to use Xamarin.UITest.