The primary and obvious way to add third-party components to your project is via the Xamarin Component Store. The Component Store is fairly similar to the NuGet package manager that all C# developers are familiar with, except that the Component Store also contains premium components that are not free. All Xamarin components are also required to include full sample projects and a Getting Started guide, while NuGet does not inherently provide documentation in its packages.
All Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android projects come with a Components folder. To get started, simply right-click on the folder, and select Get More Components to launch the store dialog, shown in the following screenshot:
At the time of writing this book, there are well over 200 components available to enhance your iOS and Android applications. This is a great place to find the most common components to use within your Xamarin applications. Each component is complete with artwork, possibly a demonstration...
