Real-World Xamarin App Examples

The Telerik CRM is a cross-platform Xamarin.Forms demo application developed within the business context of a functioning art gallery and its customer relations. The application is built from the ground up using a combination of Azure App Services for the backend, Azure Bot Framework for an in-app support chat service and Telerik UI for Xamarin for a beautiful and feature-rich client experience.

The application provides a seamless user-experience which enables the users to easily explore information about employees, customers, products and orders, as well as interact with a support chat bot that will guide them through the application and answer various questions about finding the appropriate information.

The Telerik CRM application is built with an ASP.NET backend hosted via Azure App Services with an SQL Server for its database, an Azure Bot Framework—part of Microsoft Cognitive Services suite—using a custom LUIS (Language Understanding) for an AI-powered, machine-learning trained in-app bot support service, and Telerik UI for Xamarin suite powering the frontend of the application.

Use the Telerik CRM application as a valuable resource for best programming practices in Xamarin or as a blueprint for your next Xamarin.Forms application.

The Telerik ToDo is a simple, yet elegant customer-facing application designed to cover various task management scenarios. The application’s frontend is build entirely with Telerik UI for Xamarin controls, while the backend is powered by a variety of interesting technologies such as Entity Framework Core, SQLite and MMVMFresh.

The Telerik ToDo sample application is a perfect example of a light-weight popular app that can be built with Xamarin.Forms in no time. The application’s data access capability is powered by Entity Framework Core, an open-source, cross-platform version of the popular Entity Framework. The database engine is built with SQLite and MVVMFresh for the structural design.

Looking to build a similar application? Access the source code of the Telerik ToDo sample application and use this as a template for your next great cross-platform application.

Telerik TagIt is a fully featured, intelligent application available for Android, iOS and Microsoft mobile devices. The Telerik TagIt app turns the photo gallery of a mobile device into a searchable database by allowing users to easily tag and caption their photos for quick and easy retrieval. The application is built on Xamarin.Forms with the help of Microsoft Azure’s Computer Vision API and Telerik UI for Xamarin.

The Telerik TagIt application is an ideal example of an AI-powered app written in Xamarin.Forms. The app uses Microsoft Azure's Computer Vision API — part of the Cognitive Services suite — for building the backend with artificial intelligence and machine learning. This functionality powers the captioning and tagging capabilities of the app with search keywords, thus turning a photo collection into a database that can be searched and sorted by the content contained in the individual images. Combined with the Telerik UI for Xamarin suite on the frontend, the app gives users a seamless user experience combined with the latest technological trends in AI and ML.

Access the source code of the Telerik TagIt application which demonstrates best practices in Xamarin.Forms development and use this as a starting point for your next great cross-platform application.