Xamarin.Forms VS MahApps.Metro

Compare Xamarin.Forms vs MahApps.Metro and see what are their differences.

MahApps.Metro

A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort. (by MahApps)
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Xamarin.Forms MahApps.Metro
27 17
5,631 9,089
-0.2% 0.7%
6.5 7.2
17 days ago 23 days ago
C# C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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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.

MahApps.Metro

Posts with mentions or reviews of MahApps.Metro. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-03.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Xamarin.Forms and MahApps.Metro you can also consider the following projects:

MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit - Google's Material Design in XAML & WPF, for C# & VB.Net.

Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.

Modern UI for WPF - MUI - Modern UI for WPF

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

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.

UWP Community Toolkit - The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.

Windows UI Library - Windows UI Library: the latest Windows 10 native controls and Fluent styles for your applications

HandyControl - Contains some simple and commonly used WPF controls

Gtk# - Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono

Eto.Forms - Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET