MobileBlazorBindings VS Microsoft.Maui.Graphics

Compare MobileBlazorBindings vs Microsoft.Maui.Graphics and see what are their differences.

MobileBlazorBindings

Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings - Build native and hybrid mobile apps with Blazor (by xamarin)

Microsoft.Maui.Graphics

An experimental cross-platform native graphics library. (by dotnet)
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MobileBlazorBindings Microsoft.Maui.Graphics
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1,183 677
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2.3 0.0
5 months ago 10 months ago
C# C#
MIT License MIT License
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MobileBlazorBindings

Posts with mentions or reviews of MobileBlazorBindings. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-26.
  • MAUI going to all in on Blazor Hybrid.
    3 projects | /r/csharp | 26 Mar 2023
    It's difficult to imagine. But if the rumour has any merit, perhaps it simply means that there will be a push to consolidate on some blazor tech using stuff like https://github.com/dotnet/MobileBlazorBindings
  • What are your gripes with XAML?
    3 projects | /r/dotnet | 6 Mar 2023
    There's Blazor Mobile Bindings but it's essentially experimental at the moment and isn't exactly active. From playing around with it though, it is pretty neat as you get the Blazor programming model but with native controls.
  • Clippy goes full cross-platform thanks to Avalonia UI framework
    5 projects | /r/dotnet | 5 Mar 2023
    The benefit at least with the approach instead of embedding Avalonia inside Maui is you could potentially use non xaml frameworks for ui as long as they support Maui as a target. Stuff like Comet or Blazor mobile bindings would be possible aside from xaml. Especially if they're coming from Blazor web or code based ui frameworks like flutter which makes it appealing.
  • MAUI's potential hindered by inadequate maintainership
    5 projects | /r/dotnet | 19 Jan 2023
    This is one reason I'd really love for them to push through on making alternatives to XAML like Blazor mobile bindings.
  • Is .net MAUI appropriate for a bachelor's thesis?
    2 projects | /r/dotnet | 7 Aug 2022
    I'd say Blazor mobile bindings is also pretty interesting imo, unlike Hybrid it doesn't use Html and uses MAUI controls directly but still keeps the Blazor programming style and still uses razor to tie in C# and components.
  • Roundup of .NET MAUI. - Week of July 18, 2022
    3 projects | dev.to | 26 Jul 2022
    Oleksandr has been contributing to the official experiment project, and singlehandedly updated it to support .NET MAUI. He even now has documentation on his fork.
  • Anyone been trying out .NET MAUI?
    2 projects | /r/dotnet | 16 Jun 2022
    I really hope Blazor Mobile Bindings takes off imo. I still care for native controls and if Mobile bindings does become a valid target, then you'll have an alternative to XAML when writing native components but using Razor syntax (which imo is less verbose). It'll be like how React does it (which is still pretty popular) where you have React web and also React Native which uses the platform's native controls underneath. Both aren't exactly the same but since the framework is similar (React, Blazor) it should be easy to swap between the two.
  • .NET MAUI Release Candidate – Ready for cross-platform app development
    3 projects | /r/programming | 12 Apr 2022
    Yeah I really hope they'll productize Blazor Mobile Bindings (currently experimental), it's essentially using Xaml controls via Razor as the markup format instead and can use C# expressions (so less need for converters).
  • Does MAUI support web somehow?
    5 projects | /r/dotnet | 31 Mar 2021
    It means you can use Blazor's syntax to write MAUI apps, as an alternative to XML-like XAML syntax.
    5 projects | /r/dotnet | 31 Mar 2021
    You'll be able to use Blazor for native components (sooner or later, not on release). See here https://github.com/dotnet/MobileBlazorBindings for experimental version.

Microsoft.Maui.Graphics

Posts with mentions or reviews of Microsoft.Maui.Graphics. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-04.
  • Discussion Thread
    4 projects | /r/neoliberal | 4 Apr 2023
    Microsoft.Maui.Graphics (which relies on Skia anyway but whatever)
  • ImageSharp leaving the .NET Foundation due to licensing change
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Oct 2022
    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.

  • Roundup of .NET MAUI - Week of June 27, 2022
    5 projects | dev.to | 5 Jul 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.
  • Minimalistic fluent api in C# to create complex reactive Avalonia applications
    6 projects | /r/dotnet | 13 May 2022
    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.
  • Views in Comet
    2 projects | dev.to | 15 Jan 2022
    For colors you have your choice of solid paint, linear and radial gradient paint, and more provided by Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.
  • ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Release Candidate 2 - Native dependencies for Blazor WebAssembly!
    2 projects | /r/Blazor | 13 Oct 2021
    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.
  • Does MAUI support web somehow?
    5 projects | /r/dotnet | 31 Mar 2021
    It doesn't support web. The most promising components at the moment to make this happen are: - https://github.com/dotnet/GraphicsControls . First they will need to get this working with normal platforms. - https://github.com/dotnet/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics . A dependency of the above library. Web code exists here but is not yet functional. - Blazor. In order to deploy usable Blazor wasm apps they need to get AOT support working: https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/5466 (Note the blazor you read about that is connected with MAUI is just another style of writing MAUI apps and doesn't allow MAUI apps to run on the web.)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MobileBlazorBindings and Microsoft.Maui.Graphics you can also consider the following projects:

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

Plugin.AudioRecorder - Audio Recorder plugin for Xamarin and Windows

MTAdmob - Admob plugin for Xamarin Android and iOS

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.

MagicGradients - Draw breathtaking backgrounds in your Xamarin.Forms application. It's a kind of magic.

Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) - .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.

ImageSharp - :camera: A modern, cross-platform, 2D Graphics library for .NET

xaml-code-experiences - A collection of the experiences I have collected during days of Xamarin and Wpf, while following the MVVM design pattern.

TwokaB - Blazor WebView control for WPF, Android, macOS, iOS. Run Blazor on .NET Core and Mono natively inside a Webview.