Shiny v3 BETA for .NET

THIS IS THE BETA BRANCH - FOR STABLE GO HERE

Shiny is a cross platform framework designed 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!

Supports

• Xamarin iOS
• Xamarin Android
• .NET 7 for Android
• .NET 7 for iOS
• .NET 7 for MacCatalyst
• .NET 7 for Windows (Core & BLE)

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
• Periodic Background Jobs
• BLE Client & Hosting
• Beacons Ranging & Monitoring
• Locations - GPS & Geofencing
• 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

Links

• Documentation
• Change Log
• Community Support
• NuGets
• Samples
  • MAUI - Kitchen Sink
  • Push
  • BLE Client & Hosting

Visual Studio Templates

These templates will help get you up & running quickly. Simply select what features of Shiny you want to use and they will wire up everything from permissions to app configuration.

GitHub

dotnet new --install Shiny.Templates

Integrating With Existing Apps

If you cannot use our awesome templates - try our ugly, but effective boilerplate builder at: https://shinylib.net/client/appbuilder/

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:

• The Sponsor Only Discord server
• Training available ONLY to sponsors on Sponsor Connect
• Special sponsor-only packages

https://sponsor.shinylib.net

How about some Shiny Gear

Premium Paid Support

Looking for consulting for your .NET applications and Shiny, you can now book a time with Allan Ritchie on here: 1-1 Consulting Session

Contributors

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