Xamarin.CommunityToolkit: Introduction to Your Next Must-Have Package

Summary

The Xamarin Community Toolkit is a bridge between Xamarin Forms 5 and .NET MAUI, designed to provide a home for experimental features like media elements, camera views, and markup extensions that were removed from Xamarin Forms 5. Microsoft is backing this package to help maintainers by aggregating useful libraries, converters, behaviors, and effects that developers typically copy between projects. The toolkit aims to become a standard third project in Xamarin development, making it easier for developers to access common utilities and experimental features with minimal friction.