Shiny for Xamarin & Windows

Shiny is a cross platform framework designed for Xamarin & UWP to make working with device services and background processes easy, testable, and consistent while bringing things like dependency injection & logging in a structured way to your code!

Features

• Handles all of the cruft like Permissions, main thread traversal, persistent storage and app restarts
• Brings your infrastructure to the background
• Provides logging to ensure you know when your services fail in the background
• Gives a clean & testable API surface for your code
• BLE Client & Hosting
• Beacons Ranging & Monitoring
• Locations - GPS, Geofencing, & Activity Monitoring (driving, walking, etc)
• Push Notification - Native, Azure Notifications Hubs, Firebase, and more
• Local Notifications - best of breed local notifications supporting almost all features across all of the supported platforms
• Near Field Communications (NFC) - easy to use NFC tag reader
• Sensors - every sensor available on your mobile phone is here

Links

• Documentation
• Change Log
• Samples
• Community Support
• NuGets

Support Shiny!

While Shiny is free and will continue to be so, maintenance and support takes a heavy toll on sustainability. If you or your company have the resources, please consider becoming a GitHub Sponsor. GitHub Sponsorships help to make Open Source Development more sustainable.

Depending on your Sponsorship Tier, you may also get access to some great benefits on Sponsor Connect (https://sponsorconnect.dev) including: