Mobile apps have become
an important requirement for any business that wants to provide smart and
effective solutions to its customers. There is a strong demand for mobile apps
with support for both offline and online features. With the increasing use of smartphones
which are based on different mobile platforms, developers are looking for a
platform that provides the mobile app development roadmap.
Xamarin is one of the
best cross-platform
mobile app development solutions for creating native apps, Web apps, or
combining both of them. And the new Xamarin 4 has come with major improvements
that help developers to quickly create integrated and complex mobile apps. It
allows them to reuse the same code up to 95% and perform functions similar to
those of Java, Objective-C or Swift.
Xamarin 4 Features
- Xamarin Forms 4.0
- Xamarin Insights
- Xamarin Test Cloud
- Xamarin.Mac
These features provide
plenty of benefits including app crash management, tracking app usage metrics,
creating platform-based unique user interfaces, and automating the app testing
process. However, the best part of developing the Xamarin app is its plugins.
Not only does it allow you to create fully native mobile apps on iOS and
Android, but it also gives you 100% access to APIs of various mobile platforms.
That's why the Xamarin plugins came into the picture.
Xamarin Plugins are
in-built libraries that allow you to add cross-platform functionalities to your
mobile apps. Meaning that everyone can create, consume, and use Xamarin
plugins. Plugins support mobile platforms like iOS, 64-bit iOS, Android,
Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 8.1 RT. It shows a complete summary of
specific features of a device or shows cross-platform APIs with a single
interface. Xamarin plugins have a bit size, fewer or no dependencies, and have
a simple way to access a single feature or mobile device feature.
There is a number of
plugins already developed which Xamarin offers. Let us go through the following
list to show the rapid development of mobile apps using Xamarin Plugins.
Xamarin Plugins to Add
Cool Functionality
- Media
Plugin
Media is a term mostly
used to match images and videos stored in a device. If you develop a mobile app
that needs clicking of images, recording videos and displaying the image
gallery, Xamarin Media Plugin will be needed. It allows you to add a camera,
audio and video capabilities on iOS and Android from shared code.
- Messaging
Plugin
With Xamarin Messaging
Plugin you can add phone calls, text messaging and email features to your
mobile app. Whether you want to make a phone call, send an SMS or an email, the
email plugin allows you to perform all these from shared code. It covers all popular
mobile platforms like Android, iOS and Windows OS. But adding email attachments
and sending HTML email is only possible on some mobile platforms.
- Geolocator
Plugin
Geolocation uses
location services to provide users with a location they need at any time. It is
mostly used in mobile apps to display city weather information, navigating to a
destination or finding some nearby restaurants. It is also used in apps like
Snapchat which includes geofilter features for increasing conversion rates. By
adding the Xamarin Geolocator plugin to your mobile app projects, you can use
GPS location services for all major mobile platforms. It also increases the
volume of source code that can be shared between different platforms and
includes a heading, speed and more.
Conclusion
Apart from that, Xamarin
provides many other plugins to add features like system calendar, app
notification service, accelerometer, and much more. These days, the
functionality of mobile apps is changing quickly and it is often tough to expose
common services on different mobile platforms with the help of .NET. That is
when Xamarin Plugins can help in solving the problem and optimizing code
sharing. As a result, you can take advantage of the rapid mobile app
development (RMAD) with Xamarin Plugins to deliver a high-performance
native mobile app user experience.
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