Xamarin
Mobile app development IDE, testing, and distribution.
Contents
General
A convention-based object-object mapper in .NET.
Fluent interface and lambda expressions for building validation rules.
Manipulation and displaying of strings, enums, dates, times, timespans, numbers and quantities.
Alternative date and time API for .NET.
Exception handling policies such as Retry, Retry Forever, Wait and Retry or Circuit Breaker.
Architecture
Async
Charts
Cloud
Database
An Asynchronous Key-Value Store for Native Applications.
Data management library for developers of rich client applications.
Lightweight embedded NoSQL database.
Cross-platform settings storage that uses Akavache as a storage backend.
"wrapper" for your DB tables and uses System.Dynamic extensively.
Mobile database that runs directly inside phones, tablets or wearables.
Cross platform settings plugin for Xamarin and Windows.
SQLite 3 databases support, PCL, async.
A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file.
Object-Oriented Database, Embedded and Remote connections supported.
Fody
Framework
Allows to build user interface of cross-platform mobile applications with single XAML layout.
Develop native apps for iOS, Android and Windows with 100% code sharing using Visual Studio and C#.NET.
Collection of abstracted mobile functionalities.
Extensions, MVVM classes, behaviors and other misc. useful code bits from Xamarin University.
Game Engine
CSharp implementation of the Cocos2D and Cocos3D APIs.
Open source implementation of the Microsoft XNA 4.x Framework.
Paradox3D + Silicon Studio .NET.
Cross-platform high-level 3D and 2D engine.
Xamarin binding for CocosCreator Engine.
IO/Storage
IOC/DI
An addictive .NET IoC container.
Fast, small, full-featured IoC Container for .NET.
High performance DI framework by eliminating all runtime reflection through the use of lambdas and generic functions as factories.
Light, simple and stunningly fast IoC container for .NET.
The ninja of .net dependency injectors.
.NET port of Dagger, the lightweight Android dependency injector from Square.
Single-class easy IoC container.
Internationalization
Simple and cross platform internationalization/translations for Xamarin and .NET.
Tool to generate automatically several platform-dependent resource files from a single RESX file.
Cross Platform Localisation, tools to convert standard strings formats.
Open source tool for managing i18n keys in Xmarin projects.
Media
A simple image stream compression plugin for Xamarin.
Xamarin library to load images quickly & easily.
Render After Effects animations natively on Android and iOS for Xamarin.
Xamarin bindings for libvlc, the multimedia framework powering the VLC applications made by VideoLAN.
Cross platform Xamarin plugin to play Media from PCL.
Cross platform library for rendering vector graphics.
iOS (-only) library to display PDF documents on iPad and iPhone.
A simple Screenshot plugin for Xamarin and Windows to get and save screenshot in yours apps.
Powerful C# API for doing 2D graphics. It is powered by Google’s Skia library.
Cross platform image loading, colors and stuff.
Barcode Scanning Library for MonoTouch, Mono for Android, and Windows Phone.
Simple cross platform plugin to take photos or pick them from a gallery from shared code
MVVM
Bind gives you easy two-way data binding between properties of objects.
Concise, fast and feature-rich .NET data binding with some Xamarin goodies.
Super light Mvvm Framework designed specifically for Xamarin.Forms.
A Plugin which facilitates forward-only incremental scrolling for a paged data source.
Cross-platform mvvm mobile development framework.
Cross-platform MVVM toolkit.
Cross-platform MVVM development framework.
Small and smart MVVM framework made with for Xamarin.Forms.
Cross-platform MVVM development framework.
Wires is a simple binding library.
Xamarin.Forms
MVVMCross plugin for using Xamarin.Forms.
Camera/Gallery, Barcode Scanning, User Dialogs, Geo-Location, Network Utils, Device Info, Settings, E-Mail, Phone, SMS all for Xamarin.Forms.
Timer object and its methods are implemented for extended support for timers.
Provide Material Design themes now for Xamarin.Forms apps natively without hacks.
A simple Xamarin.Forms control to display a round badge.
Simple but elegant way of display circle images in your Xamarin.Forms projects.
Provides and simple way to access the compass on Windows Phone, iOS and Android from you Xamarin.Forms projects.
Simple cross-platform plugin to work with screen orientation of mobile device.
Xamarin.Forms control for NGraphics.
Provides a simply way to implement a great variety of gradients in Xamarin.Forms.
An extended ContentView for Xamarin.Forms with rounded corners, borders, shadows, gradients and more.
[DEPRECATED] Pull To Refresh a ScrollView or ListView in Xamarin.Forms.
Xamarin.Forms view for scanning barcodes.
A cross platform plugin for Xamarin.Forms which allows to open Xamarin.Forms pages as a popup.
Shared element transitions between pages in Xamarin.Forms (IOS/Android).
HorizontalListView, TaskViewLoader, and Paginator.
Set of helpful extensions to the Xamarin Forms framework.
Rate app popup.
A Tinder-like swipe control for Xamarin.Forms.
A simple way of showing some notifications inside your Xamarin.Forms application.
FastCell, FastImage, FastGridCell.
Cross-platform controls for Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms (Checkbox using SkiaSharp).
Powerful and cross platform set of controls and helpers.
Monogame wrapper for Xamarin.Forms.
Maps library for Xamarin.Forms using Google Mapps API.
MVVMCross.Forms Visual Studio 2017 project template (iOS, Android, UWP).
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.
The latest trend for loading approaches in Xamarin Forms apps. Skeleton can be easily implemented on each view contained in your Xaml.
MaterialDesignControls Plugin for Xamarin Forms is a collection of Xamarin.Forms controls that apply the Material Design Guidelines.
DeviceOrientation
Reactive
Rx MVVM framework.
Refit is a library heavily inspired by Square's Retrofit library, and it turns your REST API into a live interface.
An Asynchronous Key-Value Store for Native Applications.
Provides MVVM and asynchronous support features under Reactive Extensions.
Simple Flow Control Library with Rx(Reactive Extensions).
ACR Reactive Sensors Plugin for Xamarin & Windows.
Android LiveData inspired .NET implementation - lifecycle aware rx streams.
Network
Refit based web api client, but resilient (retry, connectivity, cache, auth, log, priority, etc...).
Cross-platform network/connection status.
A cross platform download manager for Xamarin.
Flurl is a modern, fluent, asynchronous, testable, portable, buzzword-laden URL builder and HTTP client library.
Set of HttpMessageHandlers that make your mobile applications more efficient and responsive.
Accelerates HTTP requests by using mobile-optimized libs (NSURLSession / OkHttp).
Xamarin plugin for reading NFC tags.
Online/offline connected check.
Refit on steroids, simpler auth, parsing...
The automatic type-safe-reflectionless REST API client library for .Net Standard.
Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET.
An abstraction over the socket helper classes of .NET and WinRT.
Description Simpliest Fluent REST client for Xamarin and .NET.
XPlat APIs
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.
Simple cross platform plugin to read motion vectors value for device motion sensors such as: Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Magnetometer, Compass.
Xamarin and MvvMCross plugin for accessing the fingerprint sensor.
Calendar API plugin for Xamarin and Windows Phone, Supports basic CRUD operations with calendars and events.
Cross platform implementation of the estimote library for beacons.
Simple C# – JavaScript bridge for building hybrid iOS and Android apps.
Simple way of controlling the lamp/LED on the back of your phone from Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms projects.
Manage auto sleep / auto lock in all platforms. This is useful when dealing with long running processes.
Notifications plugin for Xamarin and Windows.
A flexible bridge to the Universal Windows Platform.
A Xamarin Framework for Backgrounding & Device Hardware Services.
Email, sms, voice and video call functionality.
Standard user dialogs from a shared/portable library.
Get app version from bundle.
Simple cross platform plugin to work with application badge.
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.
Simple cross platform plugin to work with mobile local notifications.
Reading the user's address book and using the camera.
Device Motion, Geofencing, Push Notifications (Beta).
Security
Portable version of Bouncy Castle with support for .NET 4, .NET Standard 2.0, MonoAndroid, Xamarin.iOS, .NET Core.
Detect root, emulation, debug mode and other security concerns in your Xamarin apps.
Jailbreak/Root detection for Xamarin
Cryptography for portable class libraries (MD5,...).
Simple cross platform plugin to check connection status of mobile device, gather connection type, bandwidths, and more.
Serialization
TDD/BDD
Tools
A view injection library for Xamarin.Android.
Generates a C# class with the glyph Unicode values in your font file (.ttf/.otf).
Visual Studio extension, for referencing gradle libs in Android projects.
Adding material icons to android project.
Adding material icons to android project.
Visual Studio for Mac add-in/extension for converting old PCLs to .NET Standard 2.0 targeting projects automatically.
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!
Productivity plugin for Xamarin Studio.
Visual Studio extension, opens *.axml files in Android Studio.
Command-line utility to automatically increase iOS / Android / UWP applications version.
Xamarin.iOS Autocomplete suggestions for UITextfield in iOS.
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
A control that automatically generated a breadcrumb control
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.
Xamarin component for locking an app with a passcode.
Signature Pad makes capturing, saving, exporting, and displaying signatures extremely simple on Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android and Windows.
Touch effect for Xamarin.Forms.
Xamarin.Android Native showcase view. An easy-to-use customizable show case view with circular reveal animation.
A determiante/indetermiante loading view animation.
An animated icon button for Xamarin.iOS.
Just a nice and simple BottomDrawer for your Xamarin Forms project
Just a nice and simple ColorPicker for your Xamarin Forms project
Just a nice and simple AppIntro for your Xamarin Forms project
Just a simple static map control based on the Static API of Google Maps for your Xamarin Forms project
TEditor2 is a HTML editor for Xamarin, it has so many build-in features and easy to use.
A custom Xamarin.Android ImageView with iridescence effect.
Other lists
Hand-picked bookmarks of interesting (must have) links for Xamarin developers.
A list of open source Xamarin apps.
A list of existing library bindings.
Here you will find a listing of cross platform Plugins for Xamarin that support Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.Forms, and Windows Platform from a single API.
This is a universal library that contains everything we need to know about the Xamarin universe.