Awesome Fabulous

A hand-curated list of awesome resources when using Fabulous.

Fabulous

• Fabulous on GitHub
• Official documentation

Project Scaffold

• FabScaffold Fabulous Scaffold Application, Fabulous + Akavache (for storing data with support of in memory data in debug mode and local storage in release mode) + Bogus (for generating data in debug mode)

Libraries

• fabulous-simple-elements - Alternative DSL for constructing view elements, inspired by Elmish on the web and compatible with existing View API. The repository includes these samples:
  • Fifteen Puzzle game
  • LoginFlow
  • Counter
• Elmish.Bridge.Fabulous - Fabulous client for Elmish.Bridge. Creates a stateful communication with a server with the same message passing architecture as Elmish.

Built with Fabulous

• Escribe - Escribe is application created for Medical Professionals or Doctors to support to write prescription on the go.

• F# Weekly - F# Weekly for mobile edition. Scrapes blogs and links from the website. Available for Android on the Play Store.

Sample apps

• Half-Elmish Demo - A simple half-elmish demo app with an incrementing counter.
• Full-Elmish Demo - A simple full-elmish demo app with mulitple pages, an incrementing counter and a unit test project for the init, update and view functions.
• Tic Tac Toe - A Half-Elmish implementation of Tic Tac Toe.
• Elmish Calculator - an implementation of a calculator using full-elmish.
• Fabulous Contacts - a contacts app using full-elmish.
• Fabulous Planets - Simple app with facts on the planets in the Solar System. Uses Urho3D and Fabulous (F#)
• My Crypto Portfolio - Manages your crypto portfolio on your phone. Written in F# and Fabulous.
• FSharpris - A simple Tetris Clone in F# and Fabulous.
• SqueakyApp Linux/Mac - a port of the dotnet new sample app to Linux and macOS.
• Sokoban Fabulous - Sokoban game for iOS and Android written in F# using Xamarin Fabulous framework
• TwitchDeck - An app that is being built live on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/garethhubball
• Perry Rhodan AudioBook Player - An Audible(tm) like audio book player for a small audio book publisher, who produces the Perry Rhodan audio books. Written in F# Xamarin Fabulous. Easly adjustable to work with other audio book websites.
• Clement Boudereau Weather App - FsAdent weather app demo with gps sensor and fsharp data integration into a fabulous based android apk.
• Fabulous MSAL (Microsoft Authentication Library) - A simple app using MSAL to authenticate a user with Azure Active Directory.
• Fabulous + GraphQL Type Provider - A simple full-elmish app using the F# GraphQL Type Provider FSharp.Data.GraphQL.

Code samples

• Long pressed gesture using effects - how to use an effect to add a long pressed gesture from cannorin

Blog posts

• Building mobile apps in F# using Xamarin.Forms and Elmish - a blog post on building Half-Elmish Xamarin Forms apps.
• 2018 FsAdvent : Weather mobile app in F# - a blog post on building fabulous weather mobile app step by step. This was published as part of the 2018 FsAdvent.
• 2018 FsAdvent : Fabulous Santa Tracker - a blog post on building a Santa tracker for Christmas Eve using Fabulous. This was published as part of the 2018 FsAdvent.
• Working with Fabulous for Xamarin.Forms - a blog post describing the author's first experiences with Fabulous (as of March 2019 and Fabulous 0.33.1): Fabulous was basically ruining vanilla Xamarin Forms for me!
• Adding a simple feature to FabulousContacts
• Making FabulousPlanets into a planet guessing game

Videos

• Building mobile apps using Xamarin and F# from F#Conf - Building Xamarin apps in F#, starting with using F# as a drop-in for C#, then looking at Half-Elmish.
• Xamarin University Guest lecture on Xamarin and F# - Building Xamarin apps using F# with half-elmish and full-elmish
• Using Live Update - A short intro to using Live Update with Elmish apps
• Making Mobile App Programming Simple With F# - Don Syme (feat. Jim Bennett) presentation "Making Mobile App Programming Simple With F#".
• (French) Simplifier la programmation mobile avec F# - An introduction to Fabulous by Arthur Le Meur and Timothé Larivière. Video shot in the french meetup "Le Dev Mobile"
• Building cross-platform mobile apps with Fabulous - NDC London - An introduction to Fabulous from NDC London
• Building cross-platform mobile apps with Fabulous - F# eXchange - An introduction to Fabulous from F# eXchange
• From Concept to Creation in a Week with Fabulous - how Kunjee built a Fabulous app from concept to final app in a week showing real-world tips to architect an app

Twitch streams

• Gareth Hubball