Open Source at Microsoft Mobile

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At Microsoft, we use and build a lot of different open-source software. With this list, we will be sharing some of the OSS we use and love across different mobile teams at Microsoft.

Adaptive Cards

Adaptive Cards are a new way for developers to exchange card content in a common and consistent way.

GitHub - microsoft/AdaptiveCards: A new way for developers to exchange card content in a common and consistent way.

Corned Beef

CornedBeef is an Android library for displaying instructional overlays or ‘coach marks’ that float above the current window.

GitHub - TouchType/CornedBeef: Android 'coach mark' library

Snippet

Snippet is an extensible Android library to measure execution times of the code sections in a way that does not compromise with the readability and can be shipped to production without any additional setup.

GitHub - microsoft/snippet-timekeeper: An android library to measure code execution time. No need to remove the measurement code, automatically becomes no-op in the release variants. Does not compromise with the code readability and comes with features that enhance the developer experience.

Fluent UI for Android

Fluent UI for Android is a native library that provides the Office UI experience for the Android platform

GitHub - microsoft/fluentui-android

Android App size difference

Android App size difference is a tool for measuring Android app size in your CI. Read more at Measuring Android app size in CI | Microsoft Mobile Engineering (medium.com).

GitHub - microsoft/android-app-size-diff: Android app size measuring in your CI

Fluent UI Apple

Fluent UI Apple contains native UIKit and AppKit controls aligned with Microsoft’s Fluent UI design system

GitHub - microsoft/fluentui-apple: UIKit and AppKit controls for building native Microsoft experiences

Fluent UI System Icons

Fluent UI System Icons are a collection of familiar, friendly and modern icons from Microsoft. These are available for Android, iOS, macOS and Flutter.

GitHub - microsoft/fluentui-system-icons: Fluent System Icons are a collection of familiar, friendly and modern icons from Microsoft.

Surface Duo SDK

Surface Duo SDK is a set of libraries that help you to build dual screen and foldable experiences for Microsoft Surface Duo and other foldable devices.

GitHub - microsoft/surface-duo-sdk: Set of libraries that help you to build dual screen experiences for Microsoft Surface Duo

ReactXP

ReactXP is a library for cross-platform app development using React and React Native.

GitHub - microsoft/reactxp: Library for cross-platform app development.

Xamarin.Forms

Xamarin.Forms provides a way to quickly build native apps for iOS, Android, Windows and macOS, completely in C#.

GitHub - xamarin/Xamarin.Forms: Xamarin.Forms Official Home

We have also written a few articles about using and building open-source software, such as Mixing static and dynamic linking in CocoaPods. You can find more such articles on our medium page below.

Open Source — Microsoft Mobile Engineering — Medium

We plan to expand this list to include more such open-source software that we all love. We look forward to you trying these out and contributing with your ideas and code!

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