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Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET (by picoe)
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| Xamarin.Forms | Eto.Forms | |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | 17 | |
| 5,632 | 3,468 | |
| -0.1% | 0.4% | |
| 6.5 | 8.8 | |
| about 1 month ago | 8 days ago | |
| C# | C# | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Xamarin.Forms
Posts with mentions or reviews of Xamarin.Forms.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-18.
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Have teams that migrated to Visual Studio 2022 with their Xamarin Forms app experienced a smooth transition?
The deploying is also very buggy in my project, see this post: https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/issues/15253
- .NET 6 Preview 5
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Xamarin in May, 2021 - Do you still have issues / bugs that need fixing and that stop you doing what you want to do?
There's some bugs in Xamarin Forms like #1600, #1879 and regressions like #10031, #11011, #13597 that have bothered me for some time.
Use CollectionView and push a page to the navigation stack after selecting an item in the collection view. Once navigated to the new page, navigate back and you cannot navigate by selecting the same item again. SelectedItem has to be set to null, I guess this is intended though, but there must be a better way?
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Generate your first Xamarin application with JHipster.NET
Xamarin.Forms >= 4.6.0
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What will be the future of Xamarin Toolkit and Xamarin Essentials in 24 months time?
There is already a PR to move Xamarin.Essentials into Xamarin.Forms
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Change the iOS Status Bar Color in Xamarin.Forms
Xamarin.Forms Pull Request 8298
Eto.Forms
Posts with mentions or reviews of Eto.Forms.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-27.
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Cross-platform desktop applications
An option that does not seem to have been mentioned yet is Eto.Forms: https://github.com/picoe/Eto
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AM2RLauncher Flatpak - GNOME Platform 42 is end of life
And the above is caused by https://github.com/picoe/Eto/issues/2361
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What your hidden nuget gems ?
Eto Forms - Simple cross-platform UI toolkit using native components, also for F# - https://github.com/picoe/Eto
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Is it possible to make desktop app gui's with just C#?
Yes, you can use Eto.Forms. There is also Windows Forms (with WYSIWYG editor).
- What GUI should I use for a Windows app?
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Best .NET framework that both Mac and windows developers can use to make a desktop GUI?
Check out Eto Forms
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How do you format applications using UI engines like Eto
Look at the Wiki: Containers
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Windows Central: "Microsoft to merge Surface Pro X ARM and Surface Pro 9 Intel versions under one product line"
To move on to GUI dev, there's the Qt Framework, Eto.forms for C#; Rust has the ImGui wrapper for the C++ Dear ImGui library.
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Cross platform gui frameworks that aren't xaml-based?
Xwt - https://github.com/mono/xwt and there GtkSharp branch https://github.com/lytico/xwt/tree/lytico_gtksharp Eto - https://github.com/picoe/Eto
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Xamarin.Forms and Eto.Forms you can also consider the following projects:
Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.
MahApps.Metro - A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.
XWT - A cross-platform UI toolkit for creating desktop applications with .NET and Mono
Gtk# - Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono
metroframework-modern-ui - My humble attempt to bring the new Modern UI alias Metro UI of Windows 8 to .NET Windows Forms applications.
Fluent.Ribbon - WPF Ribbon control like in Office
WPF - WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
VpnHood - Undetectable Fast Portable VPN
ScintillaNET - A Windows Forms control, wrapper, and bindings for the Scintilla text editor.
winforms - Windows Forms is a .NET UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
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