Here is my essential list of official and community plugins and libraries for applications. You will find a lot of Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms libraries, but also great libraries for .NET that can help power your apps. Xamarin.Essentials give developers essential cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications. Xamarin.Essentials expose over 60 native APIs in a single cross-platform package for developers to consume in their iOS, Android, UWP, or Xamarin.Forms application. Browse through the documentation on how to get started today. Plugins for Xamarin are community-built NuGet and Components that add cross-platform functionality or abstract platform-specific functionality to a common API. These are both completely cross-platform and extremely small (i.e., they do 1 or 2 things really well with minimal-to-no dependencies). The Plugin API can be accessed on each platform, however, you will most likely only use the common API in a .NET Standard project.
Features
- Plugins for Xamarin are community built NuGet and Components that add cross-platform functionality
- Add abstract platform specific functionality to a common API
- Completely cross-platform and extremely small
- The Plugin API can be accessed on each platform
- Xamarin.Essentials gives developers essential cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications
- Xamarin.Essentials exposes over 60 native APIs in a single cross-platform package