There is an EPPlus library (OfficeOpenXml) that allows you to read these files, but Xamarin does not support it. Are there any analogues for reading this format?
By the way, something like reading cells in EPPlus
using (ExcelPackage xlPackage = new ExcelPackage(new FileInfo(name))) { var myWorksheet = xlPackage.Workbook.Worksheets.First(); //select sheet here var totalRows = myWorksheet.Dimension.End.Row; var totalColumns = myWorksheet.Dimension.End.Column; var sb = new StringBuilder(); //this is your your data for (int rowNum = 1; rowNum <= totalRows; rowNum++) //selet starting row here { var row = myWorksheet.Cells[rowNum, 1, rowNum, totalColumns].Select(c => c.Value == null ? string.Empty : c.Value.ToString()); sb.AppendLine(string.Join(",", row)); sb.Clear(); } }