Microsoft Caboodle

Microsoft Caboodle gives developers essential cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications.

iOS, Android, and UWP offer unique operating system and platform APIs that developers have access to all in C# leveraging Xamarin. It is great that developers have 100% API access in C# with Xamarin, but these APIs are different per platform. This means developers have to learn three different APIs to access platform specific features. With Caboodle developers have a single cross-platform API that works with any iOS, Android, or UWP application that can be accessed from shared code no matter how the user interface is created.

Build Status

Installation

Coming soon...

Supported Platforms

Caboodle is focused on the following platforms for our first release:

iOS (10+)
Android (4.4+)
UWP (Fall Creators Update+)

Current Features:

The following cross-platform APIs are planned for our first release:

Permissions
Preferences
Geolocation
Connectivity
Device Capabilities
Device Information
Email
SMS
Battery
Share Text
Open Browser
File System Helpers
Magnetometer
Gyroscope
Compass
Accelerometer
Phone Dialer
Clipboard
Text-to-Speech

Future Feature Plans:

Media Picker
Bluetooth
Audio
Open Maps
Keystore/Keychain
Store Review
Vibrate

Contributing

Please read through our Contribution Guide.

Building Caboodle

Caboodle is built with the new SDK style projects with multi-targeting enabled. This means that all code for iOS, Android, and UWP exist inside of the Caboodle project.

If building on Visual Studio 2017 simply open the solution and build the project.

If using Visual Studio for Mac the project can be built at the command line with MSBuild. To change the project type that you are working with simply edit Caboodle.csproj and modify the TargetFrameworks for only the project type you want to use.

License

Please see the License.

amalmo/Caboodle