Platform Integrations/

Cross-platform application development would be nothing without bindings to the native platform/system APIs.

The crates in this category expose those, and are often useful either when developing new feature abstractions, or to allow you to drop down into "lower-level" details of the platform.

Linux/

Bindings to allow writing Wayland or X11 clients on Linux or other free unixes

X11

  • x11rb crates.io
    Rust bindings to X11
    x11 xcb
    Updated Downloads License Rust Version
    5 weeks ago (published 6y ago) ~21,000,000 (4,000,000 recent) MIT OR Apache-2.0 1.64
    repo docs

Wayland

  • wayland-client crates.io
    Bindings to the standard C implementation of the wayland protocol, client side.
    client wayland
    Updated Downloads License Rust Version
    10 weeks ago (published 10y ago) ~25,000,000 (4,000,000 recent) MIT 1.65
    repo docs
  • smithay-client-toolkit crates.io
    Toolkit for making client wayland applications.
    client wayland
    Updated Downloads License Rust Version
    8 weeks ago (published 7y ago) ~22,000,000 (4,000,000 recent) MIT 1.65
    repo docs

Bluetooth

  • bluer crates.io
    BlueR: official Rust interface to the Linux Bluetooth protocol stack (BlueZ)
    bluetooth gatt l2cap mesh rfcomm
    Updated Downloads License Rust Version
    17 weeks ago (published 4y ago) ~1,000,000 (206,000 recent) BSD-2-Clause 1.75
    repo docs

DBus

  • zbus crates.io
    API for D-Bus communication
    d-bus dbus ipc
    Updated Downloads License Rust Version
    4 weeks ago (published 5y ago) ~28,000,000 (5,000,000 recent) MIT 1.77
    repo docs

Windows

  • blessed
    windows crates.io
    Microsoft official Rust bindings to the Windows API
    Updated Downloads License Rust Version
    1 week ago (published 7y ago) ~134,000,000 (30,000,000 recent) MIT OR Apache-2.0 1.82
    repo docs
  • winsafe (WinSafe) crates.io
    Windows API and GUI in safe, idiomatic Rust.
    com ffi gui win32 windows
    Updated Downloads License Rust Version
    2 days ago (published 6y ago) ~17,000,000 (6,000,000 recent) MIT 1.87
    repo docs

Web

  • blessed
    web-sys crates.io
    Bindings for all Web APIs, a procedurally generated crate from WebIDL
    Updated Downloads License Rust Version
    1 week ago (published 7y ago) ~161,000,000 (25,000,000 recent) MIT OR Apache-2.0 1.57
    repo docs

Embedded

  • usbd-human-interface-device crates.io
    Batteries included embedded USB HID library for usb-device. Includes concrete Keyboard (boot and NKRO), Mouse, Joystick and Consumer Control implementations as well as support for building your own HID classes.
    hid keyboard mouse usb usb-device
    Updated Downloads License Rust Version
    20 weeks ago (published 4y ago) ~35,000 (6,000 recent) MIT --
    repo docs
  • lvgl crates.io
    LVGL bindings for Rust. A powerful and easy-to-use embedded GUI with many widgets, advanced visual effects (opacity, antialiasing, animations) and low memory requirements (16K RAM, 64K Flash).
    graphical_interfaces littlevgl lvgl
    Updated Downloads License Rust Version
    3 years ago (published 5y ago) ~20,000 (2,000 recent) MIT --
    repo docs

Apple

Bindings for macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS and visionOS APIs

  • blessed
    objc2 crates.io
    Bindings to Apple frameworks
    ios macos objc objc_msgsend objective-c
    Updated Downloads License Rust Version
    7 weeks ago (published 4y ago) ~20,000,000 (5,000,000 recent) MIT 1.71
    repo docs
  • core-foundation crates.io
    Rust bindings to Core Foundation and other low level libraries on macOS and iOS
    framework macos objc
    Updated Downloads License Rust Version
    19 weeks ago (published 11y ago) ~153,000,000 (31,000,000 recent) MIT OR Apache-2.0 1.65
    repo docs
    Org:
  • cacao crates.io
    Safe Rust bindings for AppKit (macOS) and UIKit (iOS/tvOS)
    appkit gui ios macos uikit
    Updated Downloads License Rust Version
    2 years ago (published 6y ago) ~84,000 (21,000 recent) MIT OR MPL-2.0+ --
    repo docs

Android

  • android-activity crates.io
    Glue for building Rust applications on Android with NativeActivity or GameActivity
    android ndk
    Updated Downloads License Rust Version
    1.4 years ago (published 3y ago) ~9,000,000 (2,000,000 recent) MIT OR Apache-2.0 1.69.0
    repo docs
    Org:
  • ndk crates.io
    Safe Rust bindings to the Android NDK
    android ndk
    Updated Downloads License Rust Version
    1.4 years ago (published 5y ago) ~17,000,000 (3,000,000 recent) MIT OR Apache-2.0 1.66
    repo docs
    Org:
  • robius-android-env crates.io
    Rust access to Android state (native Java objects) managed by UI toolkits
    android environment java jni robius
    Updated Downloads License Rust Version
    0.9 years ago (published 1.4y ago) ~8,000 (3,000 recent) MIT --
    repo docs
    Org: