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awesome-avalonia
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AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
WPF and Xamarin dev here who wrote a new (not ported) codebase on Avalonia.
- Avalonia has a guide just for people like you and me [1].
- Avalonia's flavor of XAML has small divergences from WPF that will have you hitting their docs often. There are some nice quality-of-life improvements, for example you can bind a Button click handler directly to a method without ICommand. The major concepts are the same e.g. data binding, dependency properties.
- Coming from WPF, it's possible you've used MVVM and dependency injection. You'd be going against a strong cultural grain to not use them in Avalonia. But I would be surprised if your WinForms app is architected remotely similarly, so it may be a design challenge extracting coherent ViewModels and properties from the ball of mud that many WinForms apps become.
- For macOS, read up on notarization [2] and, if you're publishing to the Mac App Store, the review process.
- I recommend starting with example apps (look in the Showcase) or with the Avalonia template solution which just runs out of the box.
- The Avalonia team iterates quickly. Expect to upgrade NuGets frequently, and don't get too far behind. There was recently a big jump from version 10 to 11. Good for you for starting after that.
- Not Avalonia specifically but if you're not used to .NET Core check out #nullable enable. Can't live without it now, but was confusing at first.
- Be sure to check out all of the official and community libraries [3]. I bet my design big on `ReactiveUI` and it's gone well.
[1] https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/get-started/wpf/
[2] https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/deployment/macOS
[3] https://github.com/AvaloniaCommunity/awesome-avalonia
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So Xamarin.Forms is close to end of support, while MAUI is not really production ready, what shall I do?
I hear you. We’ve a decent datagrid and a load of OSS components that you can find here.
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Open source project that use avalonia
You can see a lot here and, for example, here
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🤔 Thoughts on future of MAUI for desktop software? Comparing to WPF + personally weighing up "cross-platform desires" -vs- pragmatic productivity"
You can find more 3rd party controls here for example : https://github.com/AvaloniaCommunity/awesome-avalonia
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If you were going to build a cross plat app in 2022 from scratch which would you pick architecturally speaking
More about Avalonia production apps here.
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Modded games are the true last hurdle for Linux gaming
You could use Avalonia. This is xaml crossplatform and will be better supported than wpf. You can get the templates for dotnet new Avalonia. It's xaml, fast templates and there is a designer op github, can't fidn it atm. Some examples
Avalonia
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Industrial Controller? Windows or Linux?
You might also want to look at AvaloniaUI[0] for a cross platform .NET GUI library. It is similar to WPF but much nicer to work with.
[0] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
- Avalonia – Farewell to the .NET Foundation
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AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
Production user here. There's no money gotchas. They're above reproach. In fact, I've received considerable free support from their devs on GitHub Issues [1].
The Avalonia business model is based on selling XPF, which runs WPF (Windows-only) apps on other platforms. That's very interesting to big corps with existing codebases.
See my comment [2]
[1] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246988#39249128
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.NET on Linux: What a Contrast
Yes, but the portable GUI frameworks by Microsoft themselves are generally not very good, and they tend to be abandoned after a couple of years.
Avalonia is developed outside of the Microsoft corporate madness and seems to be slowly becoming the defacto cross-platform framework because it is expected to last a bit longer than a manager's attention span: https://avaloniaui.net/
- Too many Mac apps are being built with Electron
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Ask HN: Do you have a problem you'd pay to have taken away?
Not my comment, but relevant here "The problem with compiling Skia to WASM is you'll lose any benefits of hardware graphics acceleration on the device."
(From https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/discussions/6831#disc... )
- Dezvoltare aplicatie desktop
- Ask HN: How to create web, mobile, and desktop apps from a single code base?
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.NET 8 – .NET Blog
It's a bit of a hit and miss as of today. CLI, back-end and natively compiled libraries (think dll/so/dylib or even .lib/.a - you can statically link NAOT binaries into other "unmanaged" code) work best, GUI - requires more work.
Avalonia[0] and MAUI[1] have known working templates with it, but YMMV.
[0] https://github.com/lixinyang123/AvaloniaAOT / https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/ / honorable mention https://github.com/VincentH-Net/CSharpForMarkup
[1] https://github.com/dotnet/maui (try out with just true in csproj - it is known to work e.g. on iOS)
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One Game, by One Man, on Six Platforms: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
For desktop, Avalonia, hands down.
https://avaloniaui.net/
Open source, powered by Skia, backed by JetBrains, and quite battle-tested at this point for small to medium-sized apps. In theory perfectly capable for enterprise as well, since it's basically a spiritual successor to WPF, which has been an industry standard for about 15 years.
They're diving into mobile and WASM well, but that's more of a recent effort and I haven't tested that yet.
What are some alternatives?
Uno Platform - Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.
managed-midi - [Past project] Cross-platform MIDI processing library for mono and .NET (ALSA, CoreMIDI, Android, WinMM and UWP).
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.
Jaya - Cross platform file manager application for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. (planned mobile support)
WPF - WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
maui-linux - .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
Eto.Forms - Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET
avalonia-dotnet-templates - Avalonia Templates for `dotnet new`
MahApps.Metro - A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.
WolvenKit - Community Mod editor/creator for REDengine games.
Gtk# - Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono