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A collection of interesting libraries/tools for Xamarin mobile projects

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Mobile app development toolbox

A curated collection of libraries and tools for building cross-platform mobile applications using Xamarin.

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General

  • AutoMapper ★5,724

    A convention-based object-object mapper in .NET

  • Fluent Validation ★3,570

    Fluent interface and lambda expressions for building validation rules

  • Humanizer ★3,426

    Manipulation and displaying of strings, enums, dates, times, timespans, numbers and quantities

  • NodaTime ★970

    Alternative date and time API for .NET

  • Polly ★4,666

    Exception handling policies such as Retry, Retry Forever, Wait and Retry or Circuit Breaker

Architecture

  • Behaviors Toolkit ★34

    A means of adding common and reusable interactivity to your Xamarin applications with minimal code

  • Conditions ★48

    Library that helps developers write pre- and postcondition validations in a fluent manner

  • Stateless ★2,294

    State Machines

Async

Charts

Cloud

Database

  • Akavache ★1,692

    An Asynchronous Key-Value Store for Native Applications

  • Breeze ★63

    Data management library for developers of rich client applications

  • Couchbase.Lite ★299

    Lightweight embedded NoSQL database

  • Lager ★2

    Cross-platform settings storage that uses Akavache as a storage backend

  • Massive ★1,708

    "wrapper" for your DB tables and uses System.Dynamic extensively

  • Realm ★690

    Mobile database that runs directly inside phones, tablets or wearables

  • Settings ★58

    Cross platform settings plugin for Xamarin and Windows

  • SQLite.Net-PCL ★340

    SQLite 3 databases support, PCL, async

  • LiteDB ★4245

    A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file

  • DB4O-GPL ★8

    Object-Oriented Database, Embedded and Remote connections supported

Fody

  • Fody ★2,150

    Extensible tool for weaving .net assemblies

Fody / Fody ★2,150

Framework

  • Ammy

    Modern UI language for XAML platforms. Free for non-commercial development

  • Appercode.UIFramework ★13

    Allows to build user interface of cross-platform mobile applications with single XAML layout

  • Invention

    Develop native apps for iOS, Android and Windows with 100% code sharing using Visual Studio and C#.NET

  • SimplyMobile ★103

    Collection of abstracted mobile functionalities

  • Xamu-Infrastructure ★104

    Extensions, MVVM classes, behaviors and other misc. useful code bits from Xamarin University

Game Engine

IO/Storage

IOC/DI

  • Autofac ★2,169

    An addictive .NET IoC container

  • DryIoc

    Fast, small, full-featured IoC Container for .NET

  • Funq ★2

    High performance DI framework by eliminating all runtime reflection through the use of lambdas and generic functions as factories

  • LightInject ★320

    Light, simple and stunningly fast IoC container for .NET

  • Ninject ★2,034

    The ninja of .net dependency injectors

  • Stiletto ★36

    .NET port of Dagger, the lightweight Android dependency injector from Square

  • TinyIoC ★585

    Single-class easy IoC container

Internationalization

  • I18NPortable ★49

    Simple and cross platform internationalization/translations for Xamarin and .NET

  • Resxible ★9

    Tool to generate automatically several platform-dependent resource files from a single RESX file

  • Vernacular ★167

    Cross Platform Localisation, tools to convert standard strings formats

  • SimpleLocalize ★19

    Open source tool for managing i18n keys in Xmarin projects

Layout

Media

  • EZ-Compress ★11

    A simple image stream compression plugin for Xamarin

  • Fast & Furious Image Loading ★820

    Xamarin library to load images quickly & easily

  • Lottie ★643

    Render After Effects animations natively on Android and iOS for Xamarin

  • LibVLCSharp ★174

    Xamarin bindings for libvlc, the multimedia framework powering the VLC applications made by VideoLAN

  • MediaManager ★269

    Cross platform Xamarin plugin to play Media from PCL

  • NGraphics ★482

    Cross platform library for rendering vector graphics

  • PDFReader ★51

    iOS (-only) library to display PDF documents on iPad and iPhone

  • Screenshot Plugin ★21

    A simple Screenshot plugin for Xamarin and Windows to get and save screenshot in yours apps

  • SkiaSharp ★920

    Powerful C# API for doing 2D graphics. It is powered by Google’s Skia library

  • Splat ★590

    Cross platform image loading, colors and stuff

  • SimpleAudioPlayer ★14

    Simple plugin for plays local files and audio data as a stream

  • ZXing.Net.Mobile ★570

    Barcode Scanning Library for MonoTouch, Mono for Android, and Windows Phone

  • SupportMediaXF ★2

    Simple cross platform plugin to take photos or pick them from a gallery from shared code

MVVM

  • Bind ★158

    Bind gives you easy two-way data binding between properties of objects

  • EBind

    Concise, fast and feature-rich .NET data binding with some Xamarin goodies

  • FreshMvvm ★324

    Super light Mvvm Framework designed specifically for Xamarin.Forms

  • Infinite Scroll Plugin ★24

    A Plugin which facilitates forward-only incremental scrolling for a paged data source

  • MVVMCross ★2,657

    Cross-platform mvvm mobile development framework

MVVM / MVVMCross ★2,657

MVVM

Network

  • Apizr ★4

    Refit based web api client, but resilient (retry, connectivity, cache, auth, log, priority, etc...)

  • Connectivity ★200

    Cross-platform network/connection status

  • CrossDownloadManager ★67

    A cross platform download manager for Xamarin

  • Flurl ★1,295

    Flurl is a modern, fluent, asynchronous, testable, portable, buzzword-laden URL builder and HTTP client library

  • Fusillade ★216

    Set of HttpMessageHandlers that make your mobile applications more efficient and responsive

  • Messaging ★1

    Make a phone call, send a sms or send an e-mail using the default messaging applications

  • ModernHttpClient

    Accelerates HTTP requests by using mobile-optimized libs (NSURLSession / OkHttp)

  • NFC ★14

    Xamarin plugin for reading NFC tags

  • Push Notification ★1

    Simple cross platform plugin to handle push notification events such as registering, unregistering and messages arrival on Android and iOS

  • Reachability ★25

    Online/offline connected check

  • Refit ★2,762

    The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET

  • RestEase ★339

    Refit on steroids, simpler auth, parsing

  • RestLess ★57

    The automatic type-safe-reflectionless REST API client library for .Net Standard

  • RestSharp ★6,994

    Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET

  • Sockets ★185

    An abstraction over the socket helper classes of .NET and WinRT

  • Tiny.RestClient ★31

    Description Simpliest Fluent REST client for Xamarin and .NET

Reactive

  • Akavache ★1,692

    An Asynchronous Key-Value Store for Native Applications

  • ReactiveUI ★3,917

    Rx MVVM framework

  • Refit ★2,762

    Refit is a library heavily inspired by Square's Retrofit library, and it turns your REST API into a live interface

  • ReactiveProperty ★361

    Provides MVVM and asynchronous support features under Reactive Extensions

  • RxFlow ★18

    Simple Flow Control Library with Rx(Reactive Extensions)

  • Sensors

    ACR Reactive Sensors Plugin for Xamarin & Windows

  • CrossPlatformLiveData

    Android LiveData inspired .NET implementation - lifecycle aware rx streams

Security

  • Portable.BouncyCastle ★136

    Portable version of Bouncy Castle with support for .NET 4, .NET Standard 2.0, MonoAndroid, Xamarin.iOS, .NET Core

  • BreachDetector ★11

    Detect root, emulation, debug mode and other security concerns in your Xamarin apps

  • Cryoprison

    Jailbreak/Root detection for Xamarin

  • Fingerprint Plugin ★165

    Xamarin and MvvMCross plugin for accessing the fingerprint sensor

  • PCLCrypto ★184

    Cryptography for portable class libraries (MD5,...)

  • Permissions ★255

    Simple cross platform plugin to check connection status of mobile device, gather connection type, bandwidths, and more

Serialization

TDD/BDD

Tools

  • Cheeseknife ★53

    A view injection library for Xamarin.Android

  • IconFont2Code ★52

    Generates a C# class with the glyph Unicode values in your font file (.ttf/.otf)

  • GradleBindings ★103

    Visual Studio extension, for referencing gradle libs in Android projects

  • Material icons generator plugin - Xamarin Studio ★14

    Adding material icons to android project

  • Material icons generator plugin - Visual Studio

    Adding material icons to android project

  • Mutatio ★18

    Visual Studio for Mac add-in/extension for converting old PCLs to .NET Standard 2.0 targeting projects automatically

  • PushSharp ★3,990

    A server-side library for sending Push Notifications to iOS (iPhone/iPad APNS), Android (C2DM and GCM - Google Cloud Message), Windows Phone, Windows 8, Amazon, Blackberry, and (soon) FirefoxOS devices!

  • Twin Tools Add-In ★20

    Productivity plugin for Xamarin Studio

  • Xamaridea ★69

    Visual Studio extension, opens *.axml files in Android Studio

  • Xavtool ★15

    Command-line utility to automatically increase iOS / Android / UWP applications version

  • Xamarin-APRTextFieldSuggestions

    Xamarin.iOS Autocomplete suggestions for UITextfield in iOS

  • VSMac-CodeDistribution

    A Visual Studio for Mac extension that visualises code distribution between projects. Particularly useful for Xamarin projects to understand the amount of code shared between platforms

UI

  • Xamarin.Forms.Breadcrumb

    A control that automatically generated a breadcrumb control

  • Xamarin.Forms.StateButton

    With this control you are able to create any style of button. This is possible as it acts as a wrapper to your XAML and provides you the events/ commands and properties to bind too

  • Passcode ★13

    Xamarin component for locking an app with a passcode

  • SignaturePad ★117

    Signature Pad makes capturing, saving, exporting, and displaying signatures extremely simple on Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android and Windows

  • XamEffects ★53

    Touch effect for Xamarin.Forms

  • Showcase View

    Native showcase view. An easy-to-use customizable show case view with circular reveal animation

  • Animated Circle Loading View

    A determiante/indetermiante loading view animation

  • Animated Icon Button

    An animated icon button for Xamarin.iOS

  • SimpleBottomDrawer

    Just a nice and simple BottomDrawer for your Xamarin Forms project

  • SimpleColorPicker

    Just a nice and simple ColorPicker for your Xamarin Forms project

  • SimpleAppIntro

    Just a nice and simple AppIntro for your Xamarin Forms project

  • SimpleStaticMap

    Just a simple static map control based on the Static API of Google Maps for your Xamarin Forms project

  • TEdito2

    TEditor2 is a HTML editor for Xamarin, it has so many build-in features and easy to use

  • IridescentView

    A custom Xamarin.Android ImageView with iridescence effect

Wearable

Xamarin.Forms

  • Acr-xamarin-forms ★244

    Camera/Gallery, Barcode Scanning, User Dialogs, Geo-Location, Network Utils, Device Info, Settings, E-Mail, Phone, SMS all for Xamarin.Forms

  • AdvancedTimer ★35

    Timer object and its methods are implemented for extended support for timers

  • Android AppCompat ★34

    Provide Material Design themes now for Xamarin.Forms apps natively without hacks

  • BadgeView ★31

    A simple Xamarin.Forms control to display a round badge

  • Circle Image Control

    Simple but elegant way of display circle images in your Xamarin.Forms projects

  • Compass ★19

    Provides and simple way to access the compass on Windows Phone, iOS and Android from you Xamarin.Forms projects

  • Device Orientation ★28

    Simple cross-platform plugin to work with screen orientation of mobile device

  • Device Orientation ★1

    Simple way to get device orientation or be notified of orientation changes in your Xamarin.Forms projects

  • NControl ★243

    Xamarin.Forms control for NGraphics

  • Magic Gradients ★128

    Provides a simply way to implement a great variety of gradients in Xamarin.Forms

  • MvxForms ★8

    MVVMCross plugin for using Xamarin.Forms

  • PancakeView ★454

    An extended ContentView for Xamarin.Forms with rounded corners, borders, shadows, gradients and more

  • PullToRefreshLayout ★134

    [DEPRECATED] Pull To Refresh a ScrollView or ListView in Xamarin.Forms

  • Rb.Forms.Barcode ★34

    Xamarin.Forms view for scanning barcodes

  • Rg.Plugins.Popup

    A cross platform plugin for Xamarin.Forms which allows to open Xamarin.Forms pages as a popup

  • SharedTransitions ★223

    Shared element transitions between pages in Xamarin.Forms (IOS/Android)

  • Sharpnado.Presentation.Forms ★28

    HorizontalListView, TaskViewLoader, and Paginator

  • SolTech Xamarin Forms Toolkit ★31

    Set of helpful extensions to the Xamarin Forms framework

  • SVG ★1

    SVG file format support

  • Swipecards ★80

    A Tinder-like swipe control for Xamarin.Forms

  • Toasts Plugin ★208

    A simple way of showing some notifications inside your Xamarin.Forms application

  • TwinTechsFormsLib ★187

    FastCell, FastImage, FastGridCell

  • XamarinControls ★17

    Cross-platform controls for Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms (Checkbox using SkiaSharp)

  • Xamarin-Forms-Labs ★1,392

    Powerful and cross platform set of controls and helpers

  • xamarin-forms-xna ★7

    Monogame wrapper for Xamarin.Forms

  • Xamarin.Forms.GoogleMaps ★250

    Maps library for Xamarin.Forms using Google Mapps API

  • XamFormsMvxTemplate ★19

    MVVMCross.Forms Visual Studio 2017 project template (iOS, Android, UWP)

  • Xamarin.Essentials

    Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications

  • Xamarin.Forms.EntryAutoComplete

    Custom control which functionality provides you with suggestions while typing. There are several modes of suggestions. The suggested text can be displayed in a drop-down list so that you can choose from different options

  • Xamarin.Forms.Skeleton

    The latest trend for loading approaches in Xamarin Forms apps. Skeleton can be easily implemented on each view contained in your Xaml

  • MaterialDesignControlsPlugin

    MaterialDesignControls Plugin for Xamarin Forms is a collection of Xamarin.Forms controls that apply the Material Design Guidelines

XPlat APIs

  • Calendars ★49

    Calendar API plugin for Xamarin and Windows Phone, Supports basic CRUD operations with calendars and events

  • Device Motion ★1

    Simple cross platform plugin to read motion vectors value for device motion sensors such as: Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Magnetometer, Compass

  • Estimote ★37

    Cross platform implementation of the estimote library for beacons

  • Fingerprint ★165

    Xamarin and MvvMCross plugin for accessing the fingerprint sensor

  • HybridKit ★21

    Simple C# – JavaScript bridge for building hybrid iOS and Android apps

  • Lamp ★1

    Simple way of controlling the lamp/LED on the back of your phone from Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms projects

  • ManageSleep ★15

    Manage auto sleep / auto lock in all platforms. This is useful when dealing with long running processes

  • Messaging ★88

    The Messaging plugin makes it possible to make a phone call, send a sms or send an e-mail using the default messaging applications on the different mobile platforms

  • Notifications ★79

    Notifications plugin for Xamarin and Windows

  • Pontoon ★27

    A flexible bridge to the Universal Windows Platform

  • Shiny ★428

    A Xamarin Framework for Backgrounding & Device Hardware Services

  • Telephony ★17

    Email, sms, voice and video call functionality

  • userdialogs ★510

    Standard user dialogs from a shared/portable library

  • Version ★1

    Get app version from bundle

  • Xamarin.Badge ★33

    Simple cross platform plugin to work with application badge

  • Xamarin.Essentials ★560

    Essential cross-platform APIs from Xamarin team for iOS and Android. Provide easy access to or usage of: Acelerometer, App Information, Battery, Clipboard, Compass, Connectivity, Data Transfer (Share), Device Display Information, Device Information, Email, File System Helpers, Flashlight, Geocoding, Geolocation, Gyroscope, Magnetometer, Open Browser, Orientation Sensor, Power, Phone Dialer, Preferences, Screen Lock, Secure Storage, SMS, Text-to-Speech, Version Tracking, Vibrate

  • Xamarin.LocalNotifications ★40

    Simple cross platform plugin to work with mobile local notifications

  • Xamarin.Mobile ★237

    Reading the user's address book and using the camera

  • Xamarin-plugins ★39

    Device Motion, Geofencing, Push Notifications (Beta)

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