FreeTypeSharp
Microsoft.Maui.Graphics
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| C# | C# | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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FreeTypeSharp
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Loading fonts with C#
looks pretty solid but might be a bit too high level for me. I have to take a deeper dive into the code to see if it would work for me. for now I found FreeTypeSharp (which I'm not really happy with aswell) which seems to work for now but FontStashSharp seems to have some quite useful features build in.
Microsoft.Maui.Graphics
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Discussion Thread
Microsoft.Maui.Graphics (which relies on Skia anyway but whatever)
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GlyphTypeface without WPF
I'm not sure if this is out of scope for https://github.com/dotnet/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics, but that seems to be the designated successor to the platform-specific graphics libs.
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ImageSharp leaving the .NET Foundation due to licensing change
Yea, they can keep using the old versions, but that locks them out of the new versions and breaks expectations, especially since they were a member of the .NET Foundation. So it's up to them to keep using a version that won't get fixes or new features or accept the new license.
This whole thing just points out how hard all of this is to get right. I understand both sides. But I do at least get the feeling that the ImageSharp team is a bit high strung.
https://github.com/dotnet/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics/issues/47
I think this is probably an intentional move to move away from Microsoft and the .NET Foundation in addition to trying to capitalize on people making a lot of money from the software package.
After having looked at the license, it seems reasonable enough to me aside from the technicalities others have brought up. The vvvv tool follows a similar license of, it's free unless you make money from it.
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Manipulate individual pixels
You can also write a MAUI app and then use https://github.com/dotnet/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.
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Roundup of .NET MAUI - Week of June 27, 2022
This set of SkiaSharp views can be added to any .NET MAUI application for drawing. This is similar to what you can do with the built-in GraphicsView and Microsoft.Maui.Graphics, but directly to SkiaSharp.
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Minimalistic fluent api in C# to create complex reactive Avalonia applications
There's Microsoft.Maui.Graphics as well so that the renderer will not rely on native controls just like Avalonia and Flutter (but currently it's experimental). MAUI's flexible enough to enable that scenario, the bigger question is more on motivation from either MS or the community to make it happen.
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Views in Comet
For colors you have your choice of solid paint, linear and radial gradient paint, and more provided by Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.
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ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Release Candidate 2 - Native dependencies for Blazor WebAssembly!
This work is a pre-cursor to Blazor WebAssembly support coming in the Microsoft.MAUI.Graphics repo, giving us a single .Net API to draw on all platforms MAUI supports, along with Blazor.
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Creating a new image from file path in .NET 5.0
In .NET 6, there will be Microsoft.Maui.Graphics (doesn't depend on Maui, despite its name).
- Does anyone know if MAUI will have its own graphic libraries or will we need to use Skia Sharp or use the new Xamarin drawing capabilities?
What are some alternatives?
Fonts - :black_nib: Font loading and layout library.
SkiaSharp - SkiaSharp is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for .NET platforms based on Google's Skia Graphics Library. It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images.
FFImageLoading - Fast & Furious Image Loading - Image loading, caching & transforming library for Xamarin and Windows
FontStashSharp - C# port of https://github.com/memononen/fontstash
MTAdmob - Admob plugin for Xamarin Android and iOS
MVVM Light Toolkit - The main purpose of the toolkit is to accelerate the creation and development of MVVM applications in Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Forms, Windows 10 UWP, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight, Windows Phone.
Plugin.AudioRecorder - Audio Recorder plugin for Xamarin and Windows
xamarin-demos - This repository contains the Syncfusion Xamarin UI control’s samples and the guide to use them.
GraphicsControls - Experimental Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Controls - Build drawn controls (Cupertino, Fluent and Material)
ASP.NET Core - ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
MobileBlazorBindings - Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings - Build native and hybrid mobile apps with Blazor