Xamarin.Mobile
A cross-platform API for accessing phone functionality like contacts, camera, and geolocation in iOS, Android, and Windows Phone apps.
What is Xamarin.Mobile?
Xamarin.Mobile is a cross-platform API that provides a unified interface for accessing common mobile device features like contacts, camera, and geolocation. It allows developers to write once and run on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone without rewriting platform-specific code for basic phone functionality.
Mobile developers using Xamarin/C# who need to access device features across multiple platforms without writing separate implementations for each operating system.
Developers choose Xamarin.Mobile because it significantly reduces platform-specific code, accelerates development time, and provides a consistent API surface for working with core phone features across all supported mobile platforms.
Overview
A project to use a common way of accessing phone functionality
Use Cases
Best For
- Building cross-platform mobile apps that need to access device contacts
- Adding camera functionality to Xamarin-based iOS and Android apps
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