A curated list of awesome Xamarin.Forms libraries and resources.
Work in progress. Contributions are always welcome!
- LottieXamarin: Render After Effects animations natively on Android and iOS for Xamarin.
- Xamanimation: Xamarin.Forms animation library.
- App-Service-Helpers: Add data storage and authentication to your app in a few lines of code.
- 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.
- Snppts: Xamarin Forms UI Snippets.
- Icons8: Thousands of free icons in different styles and sizes.
- MetroStudio: Free Windows app that has thousands of icons
- Vysor: Utility for mirroring your Android physical device to your screen.
- QuickTime Player: For mirroring iOS devices.
- 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 โค 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Xamarin.Forms.Mocks: Library for running Xamarin.Forms inside of unit tests.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.