Shiny is a bunch of libraries and frameworks designed to make .NET (with an emphasis on Xamarin) a pleasant cross platform experience.

Xamarin Mobile 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
• BLE Client & Hosting
• Beacons Ranging & Monitoring
• Locations - GPS, Geofencing, & Activity Monitoring (driving, walking, etc)
• 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
• Near Field Communications (NFC) - easy to use NFC tag reader
• Sensors - every sensor available on your mobile phone is here
• Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration implementation that matters to mobile users

Server/Shared Libraries

• Cross Platform & Smart localization abstractions
• Email Loading Templating, & Sending on steroids!
• Truly cross platform push notification management - replace your Azure Notification Hub implementations!
• Managed WebHook registration platform