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.
Important for developers The master branch is the current development branch and the next release for 2.0. The v.1.2 is the stable branch.
Available controls
- AutoComplete (beta)
- Calendar Control (beta)
- Checkbox (beta)
- DynamicListView (beta)
- ExtendedContentView (beta)
- ExtendedEntry (beta)
- ExtendedLabel (beta)
- ExtendedScrollView (IOS beta)
- ExtendedTabbedPage
- ExtendedTextCell (beta)
- ExtendedViewCell (beta)
- HybridWebView (alpha)
- GridView (IOS beta)
- ImageButton (beta)
- RepeaterView (beta)
- SegmentedControlView (IOS beta)
- Web Image (beta)
- IconButton (IOS beta)
- CircleImage (IOS/Android anpha)
- HyperLinkLabel
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)
We are working in a great wiki on how to use the controls and services.
https://github.com/XForms/Xamarin-Forms-Labs/wiki
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");
}
Do this before using the services
Step 1:
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iOS => Make sure your AppDelegate inherits from XFormsApplicationDelegate
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Android => MainActivity inherits from XFormsApplicationDroid
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Windows Phone => Add this line to your App.cs var app = new XFormsAppWP(); app.Init(this);
Step 2: Initialize the container in your app startup code.
var container = new SimpleContainer ();
container.Register<IDevice> (t => AppleDevice.CurrentDevice);
container.Register<IDisplay> (t => t.Resolve<IDevice> ().Display);
container.Register<INetwork>(t=> t.Resolve<IDevice>().Network);
Resolver.SetResolver (container.GetResolver ());
For more info on initialization go to the Labs Wiki
Current version v1.2.0
v1.2.0 - Xamarin Forms Labs Framework Helper for online use
v1.2.0 - Xamarin.Forms.Labs.chm file for offline use
Based in last developments (master)
Master- Xamarin Forms Labs Framework Helper for online use
Master - Xamarin.Forms.Labs.chm file for offline use
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 .
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
- 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
- Chris Riesgo @chrisriesgo
- Xamarin.Mobile
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
Xamarin Forms Labs Chat room online on Jabbr
License Apache 2.0 more about that in the LICENSE file.