Useful links for Xamarin Developers

Collection of useful links for xamarin developers

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Contents

• Animations
• Components & Plugins
• Controls
  • Carousel View
  • CheckBox
  • DatePicker
  • Entry
  • Grid
  • ListView
  • Navigation Bar
  • Picker
  • Switch
  • TabbedPage
• Data Access
• Layout
• Media
• Multilingualism
• Productivity
• Real-Time Communication

Animations

• Lottie Animations [Xamarin.Forms] - https://xamgirl.com/lottie-animations-step-by-step-in-xamarin-forms/

Components and Plugins

• AppIntro - AppIntro is an Android Library that helps you make a cool intro for your app, like the ones in Google apps
• Circle Buttons [Xamarin.Forms] - Simple but elegant way of display circle buttons with an icon in your Xamarin.Forms projects
• ConnectivityPlugin - Simple cross platform plugin to check connection status of mobile device, gather connection type, bandwidths, and more
• EntryCustomReturnPlugin [Xamarin.Forms] - Xamarin.Forms Plugin to customize the Xamarin.Forms.Entry Keyboard Return Button
• FoldingCell - FoldingCell is a material design expanding content cell inspired by folding paper material made by @Ramotion
• Local Notifications Plugin - A consistent and easy way to show local notifications in Xamarin and Windows apps
• Plugin.LocalNotification [Xamarin.Forms] - The local push notification plugin provides a way to show local notifications from Xamarin.Forms apps
• Popup Page Plugin [Xamarin.Forms] - Rg.Plugins.Popup is a cross platform plugin for Xamarin.Forms which allows to open Xamarin.Forms pages as a popup that can be shared across iOS, Android and UWP. Also the plugin allows to use very simple and flexible animations for showing popup pages
• Push Notification Plugin - Simple cross platform plugin for handling push notifications. Uses FCM for Android and APS for iOS
• SlideOverKit [Xamarin.Forms] - SlideOverKit is a (Free and OpenSource) component for Xamarin.Forms. It allows developers to easily create awesome Slideovers in Xamarin.Forms
• Toasts Notification Plugin - A simple way of showing notifications inside your Xamarin or Windows application.
• xfgloss [Xamarin.Forms] - XFGloss adds new properties to the Xamarin.Forms standard UI components on the Android and iOS platforms. It uses attached properties and enhanced platform-specific renderers to work its magic.

Controls

Carousel View

• Carousel View [Xamarin.Forms] - Xamarin.Forms Carousel View Recipe
• Cool introduction page [Xamarin.Forms] - Cool introduction page using xamarin forms

CheckBox

• Non-Native CheckBox [Xamarin.Forms] - Non-Native CheckBox for Xamarin.Forms

Datepicker

• Clearable DatePicker [Xamarin.Forms] - Clearable DatePicker in Xamarin Forms
• Nullable datepicker [Xamarin.Forms]
• More friendly Xamarin Forms DatePicker [Xamarin.Forms] - Datepicker that shows “yesterday”, “today” etc.

Grid

• Grids [Xamarin.Forms] - Grids in Xamarin Forms Made Simple

Entry

• Auto focus next Entry [Xamarin.Forms]
• Image Entry [Xamarin.Forms] - Image Entry in Xamarin Forms
• Move focus on next control [Xamarin.Forms]

ListView

• Expanded ListView [Xamarin.Forms]
• Fixing ListView Offset on Pull to Refresh in Xamarin iOS [Xamarin.Forms]
• Interacting With A ListView [Xamarin.Forms] - Pull to refresh, context actions, and taps for Android and iOS
• ListView Height Change Dynamically [Xamarin.Forms] - Xamarin Forms: ListView Height Change Dynamically, using MVVM and also, Solve Empty Space issue

Navigation Bar

• Adding Badge to ToolbarItem [Xamarin.Forms]
• Navigation Bar with Shadow [Xamarin.Forms] - Navigation Bar with Shadow in Xamarin Forms
• Toolbar with items [Xamarin.Forms]

Picker

• Adjusting font size of Xamarin’s Picker

Switch

• Custom Switch Button [Xamarin.Forms]
• Custom TextOn, TextOff for Switch [Xamarin.Forms]

TabbedPage

• Official Bottom Navigation/Bottom Tabs on Android [Xamarin.Forms] [3.1] - A few new magical properties that developers can set on the TabbedPage and also some new Platform Specifics for Xamarin.Forms to enable this funcationality.
• Tab badge [Xamarin.Forms] - Xamarin Forms bindable tab badges for iOS, Android, UWP, MacOS and WPF. The plugin creates a custom renderer (for each platform) and a custom attached property for adding tab bar badges which can be bound in XF shared code.

Data Access

• Secure Storage Plugin - The plugin can be used to Securely store sensitive data strings such as password, session token, credit card number etc. This plugin securely stores the strings across sessions on iOS, Android, UWP, Mac and Tizen apps
• Sqlcipher with sqlite-net-plc [Xamarin.Forms] - A demo application to integrate sqlcipher with sqlite-net-pcl library in Xamarin.Forms

Layout

• Themes [Xamarin.Forms] - How adding themes to Xamarin.Forms app

Media

• Select images from gallery - Select Multiple Images From Gallery in Xamarin Forms

Multilingualism

• Multilingual Plugin - Multilingual (Localization) Plugin for Xamarin and Windows

Productivity

• Automatic versions xamarin app [PL] - Automatic versioning of Android and iOS mobile applications in Xamarin
• Performance Tips - Jason Smith's Xamarin Forms Performance Tips
• MFractor - Xamarin developer with super powers using MFractor
• Universal Styling [Xamarin.Forms] - Universal Styling in Xamarin Form Apps
• Xamarin Forms Samples - Sample apps built using the Xamarin.Forms framework
• XAML Tricks - XAML – Tips and Tricks

Real-Time Communication

• IceLink Community - WebRTC-based peer-to-peer (P2P) audio/video and data streaming
• RTC Apps with WebSocket - Developing Real-Time Communication Apps with WebSocket

License

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