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)
• ExtendedEntry (IOS)
• ExtendedViewCell (beta)
• ExtendedTextCell (beta)
• AutoComplete (beta)
• HybridWebView (alpha)
• Web Image (beta)
• GridView (IOS beta)
• RepeaterView (beta)
• SegmentedControlView (IOS beta)
• ExtendedScrollView (IOS beta)
• DynamicListView (beta)
• ExtendedContentView (beta)
• IconButton (IOS 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
• SoundService

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)

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:

• 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

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

Other Project Contributions: Xamarin.Mobile