awesome-xamarin

A hand-picked bookmark collection of subjectively modern/interesting libraries/tools for Xamarin Android/iOS/WP projects.

Inspired by awesome-dotnet

• Awesome Xamarin
  • General
  • Architecture
  • Async
  • Cloud
  • Database/Caching
  • Framework
  • Game Engine
  • Imaging
  • IOC
  • Internationalization
  • MVVM
  • Network
  • Security
  • Serialization
  • TDD/BDD
  • Tool
  • Wearable
  • Xamarin.Forms
  • XPlat APIs

General

• Polly - Exception handling policies such as Retry, Retry Forever, Wait and Retry or Circuit Breaker
• Stateless - State Machines
• Humanizer - Manipulation and displaying of strings, enums, dates, times, timespans, numbers and quantities
• nValid - Fluent validation library for .NET
• AutoMapper - A convention-based object-object mapper in .NET
• Fody - Extensible tool for weaving .net assemblies

Architecture

• MonkeyArms - architecture framework, DI, MVVM, ...

Async

• AsyncEx - A helper library for async/await.
• LinqToAwait - A Task-based LINQ designed to work with async/await

Cloud

• Azure - Microsoft Azure
• FireSharp - Firebase REST API wrapper

Database/Caching

• SQLite.Net-PCL - SQLite 3 databases support, PCL, async
• Akavache - An Asynchronous Key-Value Store for Native Applications
• Massive - "wrapper" for your DB tables and uses System.Dynamic extensively

Framework

• SimplyMobile - Collection of abstracted mobile functionalities

Game Engine

• Paradox - Paradox3D + Silicon Studio .NET
• MonoGame - open source implementation of the Microsoft XNA 4.x Framework
• CocosSharp - C# implementation of the Cocos2D and Cocos3D APIs

Imaging

• NGraphics - Cross platform library for rendering vector graphics
• Fast & Furious Image Loading - Xamarin library to load images quickly & easily
• Splat - Cross platform image loading, colors and stuff

IOC

• Autofac - An addictive .NET IoC container
• Ninject - The ninja of .net dependency injectors
• TinyIoC - Single-class easy IoC container

Internationalization

• Vernacular - Cross Platform Localisation, tools to convert standard strings formats

MVVM

• Frameworks
  • MVVMCross - Cross-platform mvvm mobile development framework
    • Plugins
      • Cheesebaron.MvxPlugins - A collection of plugins
      • MvxAms - MVVMCross Azure Mobile Services plugin
      • MvxForms - MVVMCross plugin for using Xamarin.Forms
      • acrmvvmcross - Barcode, Device Info, IO, Network, Settings, Signature, User Dialogs
  • ReactiveUI - Rx MVVM framework
• Fody/PropertyChanged - Injects INotifyPropertyChanged code into properties at compile time
• Bind - Bind gives you easy two-way data binding between properties of objects.

Network

• ModernHttpClient - Accelerates HTTP requests by using mobile-optimized libs (NSURLSession / OkHttp)
• Reachability - Online/offline connected check
• Refit - The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET
• Flurl - Flurl is a modern, fluent, asynchronous, testable, portable, buzzword-laden URL builder and HTTP client library.
• Fusillade - set of HttpMessageHandlers that make your mobile applications more efficient and responsive

Security

• PCLCrypto - Cryptography for portable class libraries (MD5,...)

Serialization

• Newtonsoft.Json - Popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET

TDD/BDD

• FluentAssertions - TDD/BDD fluent asserts
• NBehave - framework for Behaviour-Driven Development

Tool

• Xamaridea - Visual Studio extension, allows editing *.axml files in IDEA or Android Studio
• PushSharp - 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!

Wearable

• WormHoleSharp - Communication between Watch and iDevice

Xamarin.Forms

• NControl - Xamarin.Forms control for NGraphics
• MvxForms - MVVMCross plugin for using Xamarin.Forms
• SolTech Xamarin Forms Toolkit - set of helpful extensions to the Xamarin Forms framework
• xamarin-forms-xna - Monogame wrapper for Xamarin.Forms
• Acr-xamarin-forms - Camera/Gallery, Barcode Scanning, User Dialogs, Geo-Location, Network Utils, Device Info, Settings, E-Mail, Phone, SMS all for Xamarin.Forms
• Xamarin-Forms-Labs - a powerful and cross platform set of controls and helpers

XPlat APIs

• io - access system folders and files using a familiar api
• userdialogs - standard user dialogs from a shared/portable library. Supports Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 8
• barcodes - A cross platform barcode scanning and creating library built on top of ZXing.Net.Mobile.
• Xamarin.Mobile - reading the user's address book and using the camera
• biometrics - (Fingerprint Sensor) For Xamarin (iOS & Android)
• Version - Get app version from bundle
• Xamarin.Badge - Simple cross platform plugin to work with application badge
• Xamarin.LocalNotifications - Simple cross platform plugin to work with mobile local notifications
• notifications - Notifications plugin for Xamarin and Windows
• xamarin-plugins - Device Motion, Geofencing, Push Notifications (Beta)
• Xamarin.Plugins - Battery Status, Connectivity, Contacts, Device Information, Extended Maps, Geolocator, Media, Settings, Text To Speech, Vibrate, Circle Image for Xamarin.Forms