Xamarin Forms Labs is a open source project that aims to provide a powerful and cross platform set of controls tailored to work with Xamarin Forms.
Call for action for all Xamarin Developers, embrace this project and share your controls and services with the community, add your own control to the toolkit.
Available controls
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DynamicListView (beta)
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ExtendedContentView (beta)
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ExtendedScrollView (IOS beta)
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ExtendedTabbedPage
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GridView (IOS beta)
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ImageButton (beta)
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RepeaterView (beta)
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Web Image (beta)
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IconButton (IOS beta)
Available services (Beta)
- Accelerometer
- Cache
- Camera (Picture and Video picker, Take Picture, Take Video)
- Device (battery info, device info, sensors, accelerometers)
- Display
- Geolocator
- Phone Service (cellular network info, make phonecalls)
- SoundService
- Text To Speech
Available Mvvm helpers (Beta)
- ViewModel (navigation, isbusy)
- ViewFactory
- IOC
- IXFormsApp (application events)
Available Plugins (Beta)
- Serialization (ServiceStackV3, ProtoBuf, JSON.Net)
- Caching (SQLLiteSimpleCache)
- Dependency Injection containers (TinyIOC, Autofac, NInject, SimpleInjector, Unity)
- Web (RestClient)
- Charting (Line, Bar & Pie) (Alpha)
CHAT
Xamarin Forms Labs Chat room online on Jabbr
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We are working in a great wiki on how to use the controls and services.
https://github.com/XForms/Xamarin-Forms-Labs/wiki
Xamarin Forms Labs Framework Helper for online use
Xamarin.Forms.Labs.chm file for offline use
ViewFactory Coming soon
Add Xamarin.Forms.Labs.Controls reference to your projects , main pcl, ios, android, and wp.
Xaml :
Reference the assembly namespace
xmlns:controls="clr-namespace:Xamarin.Forms.Labs.Controls;assembly=Xamarin.Forms.Labs"
Render your control:
<controls:ImageButton Text="Twitter" BackgroundColor="#01abdf" TextColor="#ffffff" HeightRequest="75" WidthRequest="175" Image="icon_twitter" Orientation="ImageToLeft" ImageHeightRequest="50" ImageWidthRequest="50" />
Or from your codebehind:
var button = new ImageButton() {
ImageHeightRequest = 50,
ImageWidthRequest = 50,
Orientation = Orientation.ImageToLeft,
Source = "icon_twitter.png",
Text = "Twitter"
};
stacker.Children.Add (button);
TextToSpeechService
DependencyService.Get<ITextToSpeechService>().Speak(TextToSpeak);
Device
var device = Resolver.Resolve<IDevice>();
device.Display; //display information
device.Battery; //battery information
PhoneService
var device = Resolver.Resolve<IDevice>();
// not all devices have phone service, f.e. iPod and Android tablets
// so we need to check if phone service is available
if (device.PhoneService != null)
{
device.PhoneService.DialNumber("+1 (855) 926-2746");
}
Main Packages:
Plugins:
Caching
DI
- Xamarin.Forms.Labs.Services.SimpleContainer
- Xamarin.Forms.Labs.Services.Ninject
- Xamarin.Forms.Labs.Services.Autofac
- Xamarin.Forms.Labs.Services.TinyIOC
Serialization
Cryptography
To develop on this project, just clone the project to your computer, package restore is enable so build the solution first, if you get any errors try to build each project independently .
Coming soon..
Everbody is welcome to contribute with any kind of controls or features at this time. Since there's no oficial releases feel free to submit your playground controls even if they aren't perfect.
Twitter hashtag : #xflabs
License Apache 2.0 more about that in the LICENSE file.
Contributions:
- Michael Ridland @rid00z
- Rui Marinho @ruiespinho
- Filip De Vos @foxtricks
- ThomasLebrun
- Sami M. Kallio
- Kevin E. Ford @Bowman74
- Jason Smith @jassmith87
- Shawn Anderson
- Sara Silva @saramgsilva
- Ben Ishiyama-Levy @mrbrl
- Ryan Wischkaemper
- Eric Grover @bluechiperic
- Mitch Milam @mitchmilam
- Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett
- Kazuki Yasufuku
- Petr Klíma
- Bart Kardol
- Nicholas Rogoff @nrogoff
Other Project Contributions: Xamarin.Mobile