Guides for Xamarin PDF Library

The Apryse SDK is a comprehensive cross-platform PDF and Office SDK that allows you to write stand-alone, cross-platform and reliable commercial applications. Apryse’s PDF Library for Xamarin ships with a simple to use C# API to bring document viewing, creation, searching, annotation, and editing capabilities to Android, iOS, and UWP apps using a single C# codebase.

Please note that native code is being used in the following showcase app(s). Apryse SDK for Xamarin provides the same features but the source code for the showcase application(s) is only available in native languages.

Apryse’s fully supported Xamarin PDF library is trusted by thousands of innovative startups, governments, and Fortune 500 businesses (see customers). Apryse technology is built from the ground up and is not dependent on any external third-party open-source software. Using Apryse's iOS SDK, you can build powerful apps that can view, edit, and annotate PDF, Microsoft Office, and other file formats.

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After you checked out the samples, gone through get started, here are some next steps.

Basics operations
Basic operations include saving, loading, or multithreaded locking of a document.

Viewer
Display a document reliably and accurately.

UI Customization
Show/hide buttons, remove menus or customize interactions.

Annotation
Markup and comment on documents without changing the documents original content.

Add more functionality

Conversion
Convert multiple file types to PDF or from PDF to multiple file types.

Extraction
Extract data such as text, images, fonts, metadata, and more from a document.

Search
Find text within the contents of a document.

Specialized topics

Digital Signature
Secure a document with a signing fingerprint between sender and receiver.

Redaction
Redact information from a document.

PDF/A
Convert generic PDFs to PDF/A or validate existing PDF/A documents.

Customizable

Unique Functionality

  • Direct MS Office document viewing and conversion
  • Fully customizable open source UI to improve app engagement
  • Document reflow to increase readability and accessibility on mobile
  • File streaming to view remote and complex documents faster
  • Night mode to improve viewing in low-light environments
  • And much more...

File type support

MS Office software or licenses are not needed to support Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file types.

See our file formats supported page for more details.

OS support

  • Android 4.1+ (API Level 16)
  • iOS 11+
  • Windows 10 Build 10240 and above

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