matthieume / shiny

A Xamarin Framework for Backgrounding & Device Hardware Services (iOS, Android, UWP, Tizen, tvOS, watchOS, & more coming soon)

Shiny for Xamarin & Windows

Shiny is a set of libraries designed to help make device services & backgrounding easy on Xamarin & UWP platforms (with more to come).

Change Log - March 12, 2020

• Samples - Shows almost every single function point within Shiny
• Beautiful Docs are in the works - for now, take a look here:
  • Introducing Shiny
  • Shiny 1.1
  • Background Jobs - Shiny Style
  • Settings in a New Light - Shiny Style
  • Geofencing with a Pinch of Notifications - Shiny Style
  • Startup Tasks, Modules, and Stateful Delegates - Shiny Style
  • Beacons - Shiny Style
  • Easy Mode - NO DI

Builds

Branch	Status
Master
Dev

NuGet Packages

Shiny official releases are available on NuGet. For early test builds, you can also use the beta MyGet feed.

To use the beta MyGet feed, add https://www.myget.org/F/acrfeed/api/v3/index.json as a package source to Visual Studio

Libraries

Project	NuGet	MyGet
Core
Beacons
BluetoothLE
Locations
HTTP Transfers
Sensors
Notifications
Push
NFC

Integrations

Project	NuGet	MyGet	Description
Azure Notifications Push			Push Integration for Azure Notification Hubs - Support for iOS, Android, & UWP
Firebase Push			Push Integration for Google Firebase - Support for iOS & Android
SQLite			Provides caching, logging, storage, & settings implementations
AppCenter Logging			Log errors to AppCenter
System.Text.Json Serializer			This is the new .NET serializer coming into modern .NET. This will eventually be standard in Shiny
(Android) Current Activity			If you use James Montemagno's current top activity plugin, Shiny can use it instead of its internal version

3rd Party

Project	NuGet	Repo	Description
Shiny.Prism		GitHub	Prism integration with Shiny maintained by Dan Siegel

Contributors

• Allan Ritchie - Project Lead
• Emily Stanek - Logo Designer
• Dan Siegel - Contributor
• Keith Dahlby - Contributor