Xamarin
General
5_ENTRIES- AutoMapper β 5,724
A convention-based object-object mapper in .NET.
- Fluent Validation β 3,570
Fluent interface and lambda expressions for building validation rules.
- Humanizer β 3,426
Manipulation and displaying of strings, enums, dates, times, timespans, numbers and quantities.
- NodaTime β 970
Alternative date and time API for .NET.
- Polly β 4,666
Exception handling policies such as Retry, Retry Forever, Wait and Retry or Circuit Breaker.
Architecture
3_ENTRIES- Behaviors Toolkit β 34
A means of adding common and reusable interactivity to your Xamarin applications with minimal code.
- Conditions β 48
Library that helps developers write pre- and postcondition validations in a fluent manner.
- Stateless β 2,294
State Machines.
Async
2_ENTRIES- AsyncEx β 1,253
A helper library for async/await.
- LinqToAwait β 99
A Task-based LINQ designed to work with async/await.
Charts
3_ENTRIES- MicroCharts β 1052
Create cross-platform (Xamarin, Windows, ...) simple charts.
- MPAndroidChart/iOSCharts β 6
MPAndroidChart/iOSCharts binding support use in Xamarin Forms.
- OxyPlot β 1,311
Cross-platform plotting library for .NET.
Cloud
3_ENTRIES- Azure
Microsoft Azure.
- Bugfender β 10
Store your application logs on the cloud (iOS & Android).
- FireSharp β 479
Firebase REST API wrapper.
Database
10_ENTRIES- Akavache β 1,692
An Asynchronous Key-Value Store for Native Applications.
- Breeze β 63
Data management library for developers of rich client applications.
- Couchbase.Lite β 299
Lightweight embedded NoSQL database.
- Lager β 2
Cross-platform settings storage that uses Akavache as a storage backend.
- Massive β 1,708
"wrapper" for your DB tables and uses System.Dynamic extensively.
- Realm β 690
Mobile database that runs directly inside phones, tablets or wearables.
- Settings β 58
Cross platform settings plugin for Xamarin and Windows.
- SQLite.Net-PCL β 340
SQLite 3 databases support, PCL, async.
- LiteDB β 4245
A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file.
- DB4O-GPL β 8
Object-Oriented Database, Embedded and Remote connections supported.
Fody
1_ENTRIES- Fody β 2,150
Extensible tool for weaving .net assemblies.AutoDependencyProperty.Fody - Automatically generates DependencyProperty boilerplate from simple C# properties.PropertyChanged.Fody β 820 - Injects INotifyPropertyChanged code into properties at compile time.ReactiveUI.Fody β 105 - Generate RaisePropertyChange notifications for properties and Obserβ¦
Framework
5_ENTRIES- Ammy
Modern UI language for XAML platforms. Free for non-commercial development.
- Appercode.UIFramework β 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 β 103
Collection of abstracted mobile functionalities.
- Xamu-Infrastructure β 104
Extensions, MVVM classes, behaviors and other misc. useful code bits from Xamarin University.
Game Engine
5_ENTRIES- CocosSharp β 463
CSharp implementation of the Cocos2D and Cocos3D APIs.
- MonoGame β 5,276
Open source implementation of the Microsoft XNA 4.x Framework.
- Paradox β 1,706
Paradox3D + Silicon Studio .NET.
- UrhoSharp β 275
Cross-platform high-level 3D and 2D engine.
- CocosCreator β 2
Xamarin binding for CocosCreator Engine.
IO/Storage
3_ENTRIES- IO β 6
Access system folders and files using a familiar api.
- PCL Storage β 270
Consistent, portable set of local file IO APIs for .NET.
- FilePicker-Plugin-for-Xamarin β 37
Simple cross-platform plug-in that allows you to pick files and work with them.
IOC/DI
7_ENTRIES- Autofac β 2,169
An addictive .NET IoC container.
- DryIoc
Fast, small, full-featured IoC Container for .NET.
- Funq β 2
High performance DI framework by eliminating all runtime reflection through the use of lambdas and generic functions as factories.
- LightInject β 320
Light, simple and stunningly fast IoC container for .NET.
- Ninject β 2,034
The ninja of .net dependency injectors.
- Stiletto β 36
.NET port of Dagger, the lightweight Android dependency injector from Square.
- TinyIoC β 585
Single-class easy IoC container.
Internationalization
4_ENTRIES- I18NPortable β 49
Simple and cross platform internationalization/translations for Xamarin and .NET.
- Resxible β 9
Tool to generate automatically several platform-dependent resource files from a single RESX file.
- Vernacular β 167
Cross Platform Localisation, tools to convert standard strings formats.
- SimpleLocalize β 19
Open source tool for managing i18n keys in Xmarin projects.
Layout
1_ENTRIES- Flex β 128
Flexible box layout system.
Media
13_ENTRIES- EZ-Compress β 11
A simple image stream compression plugin for Xamarin.
- Fast & Furious Image Loading β 820
Xamarin library to load images quickly & easily.
- Lottie β 643
Render After Effects animations natively on Android and iOS for Xamarin.
- LibVLCSharp β 174
Xamarin bindings for libvlc, the multimedia framework powering the VLC applications made by VideoLAN.
- MediaManager β 269
Cross platform Xamarin plugin to play Media from PCL.
- NGraphics β 482
Cross platform library for rendering vector graphics.
- PDFReader β 51
iOS (-only) library to display PDF documents on iPad and iPhone.
- Screenshot Plugin β 21
A simple Screenshot plugin for Xamarin and Windows to get and save screenshot in yours apps.
- SkiaSharp β 920
Powerful C# API for doing 2D graphics. It is powered by Googleβs Skia library.
- Splat β 590
Cross platform image loading, colors and stuff.
- SimpleAudioPlayer β 14
Simple plugin for plays local files and audio data as a stream.
- ZXing.Net.Mobile β 570
Barcode Scanning Library for MonoTouch, Mono for Android, and Windows Phone.
- SupportMediaXF β 2
Simple cross platform plugin to take photos or pick them from a gallery from shared code
MVVM
11_ENTRIES- Bind β 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 β 324
Super light Mvvm Framework designed specifically for Xamarin.Forms.
- Infinite Scroll Plugin β 24
A Plugin which facilitates forward-only incremental scrolling for a paged data source.
- MVVMCross β 2,657
Cross-platform mvvm mobile development framework.Cheesebaron.MvxPlugins β 79 - A collection of plugins.MvxAms β 1 - MVVMCross Azure Mobile Services plugin.MvxForms β 1 - MVVMCross plugin for using Xamarin.Forms.
- MugenMvvmToolkit β 127
Cross-platform MVVM toolkit.
- MVVMLight
Cross-platform MVVM development framework.
- MvvmNano β 46
Small and smart MVVM framework made with β€ for Xamarin.Forms.
- Prism β 2,365
Cross-platform MVVM development framework.
- ReactiveUI β 3,917
Rx MVVM framework.
- Wires β 28
Wires is a simple binding library.
Network
16_ENTRIES- Apizr β 4
Refit based web api client, but resilient (retry, connectivity, cache, auth, log, priority, etc...).
- Connectivity β 200
Cross-platform network/connection status.
- CrossDownloadManager β 67
A cross platform download manager for Xamarin.
- Flurl β 1,295
Flurl is a modern, fluent, asynchronous, testable, portable, buzzword-laden URL builder and HTTP client library.
- Fusillade β 216
Set of HttpMessageHandlers that make your mobile applications more efficient and responsive.
- Messaging β 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 β 14
Xamarin plugin for reading NFC tags.
- Push Notification β 1
Simple cross platform plugin to handle push notification events such as registering, unregistering and messages arrival on Android and iOS.
- Reachability β 25
Online/offline connected check.
- Refit β 2,762
The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET.
- RestEase β 339
Refit on steroids, simpler auth, parsing...
- RestLess β 57
The automatic type-safe-reflectionless REST API client library for .Net Standard.
- RestSharp β 6,994
Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET.
- Sockets β 185
An abstraction over the socket helper classes of .NET and WinRT.
- Tiny.RestClient β 31
Description Simpliest Fluent REST client for Xamarin and .NET.
Reactive
7_ENTRIES- Akavache β 1,692
An Asynchronous Key-Value Store for Native Applications.
- ReactiveUI β 3,917
Rx MVVM framework.
- Refit β 2,762
Refit is a library heavily inspired by Square's Retrofit library, and it turns your REST API into a live interface.
- ReactiveProperty β 361
Provides MVVM and asynchronous support features under Reactive Extensions.
- RxFlow β 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
6_ENTRIES- Portable.BouncyCastle β 136
Portable version of Bouncy Castle with support for .NET 4, .NET Standard 2.0, MonoAndroid, Xamarin.iOS, .NET Core.
- BreachDetector β 11
Detect root, emulation, debug mode and other security concerns in your Xamarin apps.
- Cryoprison
Jailbreak/Root detection for Xamarin
- Fingerprint Plugin β 165
Xamarin and MvvMCross plugin for accessing the fingerprint sensor.
- PCLCrypto β 184
Cryptography for portable class libraries (MD5,...).
- Permissions β 255
Simple cross platform plugin to check connection status of mobile device, gather connection type, bandwidths, and more.
Serialization
2_ENTRIES- Newtonsoft.Json β 5,812
Popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET.
- Quicktype β 886
Instantly generate classes and JSON serialization code from JSON.
TDD/BDD
3_ENTRIES- FluentAssertions
TDD/BDD fluent asserts.
- NBehave β 47
Framework for Behaviour-Driven Development.
- VSMac-CodeCoverage
Gather code coverage results for your unit test projects from Visual Studio for Mac.
Tools
12_ENTRIES- Cheeseknife β 53
A view injection library for Xamarin.Android.
- IconFont2Code β 52
Generates a C# class with the glyph Unicode values in your font file (.ttf/.otf).
- GradleBindings β 103
Visual Studio extension, for referencing gradle libs in Android projects.
- Material icons generator plugin - Xamarin Studio β 14
Adding material icons to android project.
- Material icons generator plugin - Visual Studio
Adding material icons to android project.
- Mutatio β 18
Visual Studio for Mac add-in/extension for converting old PCLs to .NET Standard 2.0 targeting projects automatically.
- PushSharp β 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 β 20
Productivity plugin for Xamarin Studio.
- Xamaridea β 69
Visual Studio extension, opens *.axml files in Android Studio.
- Xavtool β 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
14_ENTRIES- 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 β 13
Xamarin component for locking an app with a passcode.
- SignaturePad β 117
Signature Pad makes capturing, saving, exporting, and displaying signatures extremely simple on Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android and Windows.
- XamEffects β 53
Touch effect for Xamarin.Forms.
- Showcase View
Xamarin.Android 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
1_ENTRIES- WormHoleSharp β 25
Communication between Watch and iDevice.
Xamarin.Forms
32_ENTRIES- Acr-xamarin-forms β 244
Camera/Gallery, Barcode Scanning, User Dialogs, Geo-Location, Network Utils, Device Info, Settings, E-Mail, Phone, SMS all for Xamarin.Forms.
- AdvancedTimer β 35
Timer object and its methods are implemented for extended support for timers.
- Android AppCompat β 34
Provide Material Design themes now for Xamarin.Forms apps natively without hacks.
- BadgeView β 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 β 19
Provides and simple way to access the compass on Windows Phone, iOS and Android from you Xamarin.Forms projects.
- Device Orientation β 28
Simple cross-platform plugin to work with screen orientation of mobile device.
- Device Orientation β 1
Simple way to get device orientation or be notified of orientation changes in your Xamarin.Forms projects.
- NControl β 243
Xamarin.Forms control for NGraphics.
- Magic Gradients β 128
Provides a simply way to implement a great variety of gradients in Xamarin.Forms.
- MvxForms β 8
MVVMCross plugin for using Xamarin.Forms.
- PancakeView β 454
An extended ContentView for Xamarin.Forms with rounded corners, borders, shadows, gradients and more.
- PullToRefreshLayout β 134
[DEPRECATED] Pull To Refresh a ScrollView or ListView in Xamarin.Forms.
- Rb.Forms.Barcode β 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 β 223
Shared element transitions between pages in Xamarin.Forms (IOS/Android).
- Sharpnado.Presentation.Forms β 28
HorizontalListView, TaskViewLoader, and Paginator.
- SolTech Xamarin Forms Toolkit β 31
Set of helpful extensions to the Xamarin Forms framework.
- Store Rating Plugin β 7
Rate app popup.
- SVG β 1
SVG file format support.
- Swipecards β 80
A Tinder-like swipe control for Xamarin.Forms.
- Toasts Plugin β 208
A simple way of showing some notifications inside your Xamarin.Forms application.
- TwinTechsFormsLib β 187
FastCell, FastImage, FastGridCell.
- XamarinControls β 17
Cross-platform controls for Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms (Checkbox using SkiaSharp).
- Xamarin-Forms-Labs β 1,392
Powerful and cross platform set of controls and helpers.
- xamarin-forms-xna β 7
Monogame wrapper for Xamarin.Forms.
- Xamarin.Forms.GoogleMaps β 250
Maps library for Xamarin.Forms using Google Mapps API.
- XamFormsMvxTemplate β 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
19_ENTRIESMost of them support Android and iOS, some do Windows Phone 8
- Calendars β 49
Calendar API plugin for Xamarin and Windows Phone, Supports basic CRUD operations with calendars and events.
- Device Motion β 1
Simple cross platform plugin to read motion vectors value for device motion sensors such as: Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Magnetometer, Compass.
- Estimote β 37
Cross platform implementation of the estimote library for beacons.
- Fingerprint β 165
Xamarin and MvvMCross plugin for accessing the fingerprint sensor.
- HybridKit β 21
Simple C# β JavaScript bridge for building hybrid iOS and Android apps.
- Lamp β 1
Simple way of controlling the lamp/LED on the back of your phone from Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms projects.
- ManageSleep β 15
Manage auto sleep / auto lock in all platforms. This is useful when dealing with long running processes.
- Messaging β 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 β 79
Notifications plugin for Xamarin and Windows.
- Pontoon β 27
A flexible bridge to the Universal Windows Platform.
- Shiny β 428
A Xamarin Framework for Backgrounding & Device Hardware Services.
- Telephony β 17
Email, sms, voice and video call functionality.
- userdialogs β 510
Standard user dialogs from a shared/portable library.
- Version β 1
Get app version from bundle.
- Xamarin.Badge β 33
Simple cross platform plugin to work with application badge.
- Xamarin.Essentials β 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 β 40
Simple cross platform plugin to work with mobile local notifications.
- Xamarin.Mobile β 237
Reading the user's address book and using the camera.
- Xamarin-plugins β 39
Device Motion, Geofencing, Push Notifications (Beta).
Other lists
5_ENTRIES- Awesome Xamarin Bookmarks β 9
Hand-picked bookmarks of interesting (must have) links for Xamarin developers.
- Open Source Xamarin Apps β 11
A list of open source Xamarin apps.
- Xamarin Bindings β 112
A list of existing library bindings.
- Xamarin Components β 1,338
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.
- Xamarin Universal Library β 3
This is a universal library that contains everything we need to know about the Xamarin universe.
Websites
4_ENTRIES- Planet Xamarin
An aggregator of content from Xamarin Community members. Why subscribe individually when you can subscribe to one convenient RSS feed? If RSS isn't your thing, follow the Twitter or Facebook accounts which are automatically updated with the latest content from the community.
- Programming Community Curated Resources For Learning Xamarin
A curated list of resources for learning Xamarin.
- Weekly Xamarin
Hand-picked round up of the best Xamarin development links every week. Curated by Geoffrey Huntley and published every Friday. Free.
- Xamarin Online Courses
A list of over 60 Online Courses (free and paid) from Classpert Online Course Search.