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A curated list of awesome Xamarin.Forms libraries and resources

Awesome Xamarin.Forms

A curated list of awesome Xamarin.Forms libraries and resources.

Work in progress. Contributions are always welcome!

Animations

• LottieXamarin: Render After Effects animations natively on Android and iOS for Xamarin.
• Xamanimation: Xamarin.Forms animation library.

Cloud

• App-Service-Helpers: Add data storage and authentication to your app in a few lines of code.

Data

• Postman: Tool for test web services requests and responses.
• Polly: Automatic retry policies.

Database

• Akavache: Akavache is an asynchronous, persistent (i.e. writes to disk) key-value store created for writing desktop and mobile applications in C#, based on SQLite3. Akavache is great for both storing important data (i.e. user settings) as well as cached local data that expires.
• Entity Framework Core: Is a lightweight and extensible version of the popular Entity Framework data access technology
• Realm: Alternative to SQLite, simple and fast.
• SQLite-net: It is an open source, minimal library to allow .NET and Mono applications to store data in SQLite 3 databases.

Design

• Snppts: Xamarin Forms UI Snippets.
• Prebuilt Templates: Jump-start your next project with a prebuilt app.

Images and Icons

• Icons8: Thousands of free icons in different styles and sizes.
• MetroStudio: Free Windows app that has thousands of icons

Mirroring Devices

• Vysor: Utility for mirroring your Android physical device to your screen.
• QuickTime Player: For mirroring iOS devices.

MVVM

• ExRin: A framework for enterprise scale apps.
• FreshMvvm: It is a super light Mvvm Framework designed specifically for Xamarin.Forms
• MVVMCross: Cross-platform mvvm mobile development framework.
• MVVMLight: Cross-platform MVVM development framework.
• MvvmNano: Small and smart MVVM framework made with ❤ for Xamarin.Forms.
• Prism: Nice framework with an amazing navigation service.
• ReactiveUI: An advanced, composable, functional reactive model-view-viewmodel framework for all .NET platforms.

Plugins

• Battery Status: Get battery level, how it is getting charge, and events.
• Connectivity: See if device is connected to the internet and through what connection type.
• Contacts: Currently in Alpha to gather and query contacts.
• Device Information: Base information about each device such as OS and version.
• Extended Maps: Launch navigation directions in default map app on each OS.
• Geofence: A cross platform library for Xamarin & Windows that allows for easy geofence detection.
• Geolocator: Easy way of querying GPS location.
• Media: Take or pick photos/videos.
• MediaManager: Cross platform media plugin for Xamarin and Windows.
• NFCForms: Easily read and write NFC tags in your Xamarin.Forms application.
• PayPal: PayPal Plugin for Xamarin.Forms.
• Permissions: Check and request runtime permissions.
• Settings: Fully cross platform settings for your application.
• Share: Easily share text or open a browser
• Text To Speech: Turn your text into a vocal symphony on mobile devices.
• Version Tracking: Track which versions of your Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Mac, Xamarin.Android, or Windows app a user has previously installed.
• Vibrate: Make that device rumble!.
• Xam.Plugin.Webview: Xamarin Plugin for a HybridWebView in PCL projects.

Serialization

• JSON.NET: Is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET
• Utf8Json: Definitely Fastest and Zero Allocation JSON Serializer for C#(.NET, .NET Core, Unity and Xamarin), this serializer write/read directly to UTF8 binary so boostup performance.

Testing

• Xamarin.Forms.Mocks: Library for running Xamarin.Forms inside of unit tests.

Tools

• Assetxport: Resize UWP, Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS assets automatically.
• Gorilla Player: Instant XAML Preview for Xamarin Forms.
• LiveXAML: Whenever you save any XAML file, it automatically updates the running application.
• MFractor: MFractor is the essential productivity tool for Xamarin Studio.
• Productivity Power Tools: An extension bundle installer that will install each of the individual components of Productivity Power Tools (copy has HTML, fix tabs, etc.).
• UI Sleuth: Xamarin.Forms debugging tool.
• XAML Styler: A visual studio extension, which formats XAML source code by sorting the attributes based on their importance.
• NSwag: Swagger and code generation tool for C#. Easily integrate your own or 3rd party APIs into your app.

UI

• ACR User Dialogs: A cross platform library that allows you to call for standard user dialogs from a shared/portable library.
• BottomTabbedPage: A Xamarin.Forms control brings BottomNavigationView for bottom navigation on Android.
• BadgeView: A Xamarin.Forms control to display a round badge.
• BuildIt: Build It is the set of libraries that makes it easier and quicker to build applications.
• CircularProgress: Circular Progress control for Xamarin Forms.
• FFImageLoading: Library to load images quickly & easily on Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.Forms and Windows (UWP, WinRT).
• FlowListView: ListView derivative with flowing, grid-like columns support.
• GridSplitter: A control for Xamarin Forms that redistributes space between columns or rows of a Grid control.
• Infinite Scrolling: A small library to quickly and easily add infinite/endless scrolling support to any Xamarin.Forms ListView.
• ImageCircle: Simple but elegant way of display circle images in your Xamarin.Forms projects.
• ImageCropper: Xam.Plugins.ImageCropper is a useful image cropping and rotating library for Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android.
• MarkdownView: A native Xamarin.Forms Markdown renderer.
• Microcharts: Is an extremely simple charting library for a wide range of platforms.
• NControl: Is a Xamarin.Forms wrapper control built around the NGraphics library enabling developers to create custom controls without the need for custom renderers.
• OxyPlot Xamarin: Charts for Xamarin Classic and Xamarin.Forms.
• PinView: PIN keyboard for Xamarin.Forms.
• PullToRefreshLayout: Implementation of pull to refresh layout for Xamarin.Forms targeting iOS and Android.
• Rg.Plugins.Popup: Popup Page Plugin for Xamarin Forms.
• SlideOverKit: SlideOverKit is a premium component for Xamarin.Forms. It allows developers to easily create awesome Slideovers in Xamarin.Forms.
• SwipeCards: A Tinder control for Xamarin.Forms that supports iOS, Android and UWP.
• Tab Badge: Xamarin Forms bindable Tab badges for iOS and Android
• TopTabbedPage: A Xamarin.Forms page based TabbedPage to show tabs at top on iOS.
• XAMLCSS: Style Xaml-applications with CSS.
• XFGloss:Xamarin.Forms UI Enhancements.
• XamForms.Controls.Calendar: Custom calendar control for Xamarin.Forms.
• Xamarin.Forms.DataGrid: DataGrid library for Xamarin.Forms Application.

UI Testing

• Xamarin UITest: An Automated UI Acceptance Testing framework that allows programmers to write and execute tests in C# and NUnit that validate the functionality of iOS and Android Apps.
• Xamarin Test Recorder: This tool makes it easy to record automated tests for your app.