Xamarin Forms Labs

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

• Calendar Control (beta)
• ExtendedTabbedPage
• ImageButton (beta)
• ExtendedLabel (beta)
• ExtendedViewCell (beta)
• ExtendedTextCell (beta)
• AutoComplete (beta)
• HybridWebView (alpha)
• Web Image (beta)

Available services (Beta)

• Text To Speech
• Device (battery info, device info, sensors, accelerometers)
• Phone Service (cellular network info, make phonecalls)
• Geolocator
• Camera (Picture and Video picker, Take Picture, Take Video)
• Accelerometer
• Display
• Cache

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, impleInjector)

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HOW-TO

We are working in a great wiki on how to use the controls and services.

https://github.com/XForms/Xamarin-Forms-Labs/wiki

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Using the MVVM Helpers

ViewFactory Coming soon

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Using the controls

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);

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Using the Services

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");
	}

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Nuget

Main Packages:

• Xamarin.Forms.Labs

Plugins:

Caching

• Xamarin.Forms.Labs.Caching.SQLiteNet

DI

• Xamarin.Forms.Labs.Services.SimpleContainer
• Xamarin.Forms.Labs.Services.Ninject
• Xamarin.Forms.Labs.Services.Autofac
• Xamarin.Forms.Labs.Services.TinyIOC

Serialization

• Xamarin.Forms.Labs.Services.Serialization.ProtoBuf
• Xamarin.Forms.Labs.Serialization.JsonNET

Cryptography

• Xamarin.Forms.Labs.Cryptography

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Build the project

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 .

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Screenshots

Coming soon..

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Contribute

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

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License

License Apache 2.0 more about that in the LICENSE file.

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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

Another Project Contributions: Xamarin.Mobile