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Asked: 2026-06-08T17:09:49+00:00

I understand that with MonoTouch and MonoDroid that you develop against the native UI

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I understand that with MonoTouch and MonoDroid that you develop against the native UI layer, which is a good thing. However, I was wondering if there were any cross platform Mono API layers for features such as camera, location, storage, notifications etc… ?

PhoneGap supplies a JavaScript a abstraction layer that does just this. Is there a Mono equivalent?

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  1. Editorial Team

    There is an official monomobile api project from xamarin – that provides camera, contacts and gps abstractions, plus there are discussions (but not firm roadmaps) about extending this further. See http://blog.xamarin.com/2011/11/22/introducing-the-xamarin-mobile-api/ for an intro

    Beyond that:

    • some api’s exist cross platform from the start – eg isolated storage can be used on all platforms.
    • I’ve seen a few other GitHub projects started – eg chrisntr’s mono extensions
    • I’ve written a few abstractions (e.g. File, gps, camera) in http://GitHub.com/slodge/mvvmcross
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