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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
maui-linux
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What's New in Final RC for .NET 8, .NET MAUI, Asp.net Core and EF8
While this is the quite endorsed by the community: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/discussions/339
I think the fundamental issue is that desktop Linux is way too fragmented. Not only just GTK2/3 and Qt but you have GNOME, KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon and then you have X11, Xorg, Wayland...
To be honest, all those craps are why desktop Linux never took off. I'm very safe to say MAUI for Linux will eventually renders components off its own using framebuffer and hardware acceleration APIs such as OpenGL or Vulkan just because of the market fragmentations...
If desktop Linux truly wants to get the attention, it will need to unify. Fixing dependency hell using Flatpak is the right direction.
There is an existing old fork of MAUI for Linux that uses GTK: https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/maui-linux
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Tauri Mobile – Develop Mobile Apps with JavaScript and Rust
There is work being done to address desktop linux, but I agree that is one of the deficiencies.
https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/maui-linux/pull/37
The lack of a WASM target is another, although UNO project in the past provided such a target for MAUI's very closely-related predecessor (Xamarin.Forms).
https://platform.uno/xamarin-forms/
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Announcing .NET 7 Release Candidate 1
That's more on the fact that there's no official set of native UI in Linux since MAUI uses the platform's native UI instead of drawing everything themselves like Flutter, there have been some community works around this via this repo using GTK as the native UI to target. This is the same case for say React Native where most Linux implementation will likely use Electron as a shell since there's no standard set of platform UI components to choose.
- .NET MAUI on Linux Makes Progress
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"Microsoft and Canonical announce native .NET availability in Ubuntu 22.04 hosts and containers" – yeah, very nice, but there's still no cross-platform way to build graphical .NET apps, right?
There's even a senior engineer at Microsoft who's done some exploratory work on Linux bindings already: https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/maui-linux
- Will we ever get a new CLR language to replace C# Like Kotlin did for Java?
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Dont u just love ur job as a dev in c#
https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/maui-linux exists but appears to be inactive lately
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What options exist for creating (simple) GUI applications on Linux?
The applications I'm trying to make all require relatively simple GUI, only needing images, text-boxes, buttons, and basic configuration menus. I have heard of maui-linux however I'm very new to all of this and not sure how to make use of it at all.
- How quickly and efficiently do you believe Linux will get support for MAUI apps?
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Introducing .NET MAUI – One Codebase, Many Platforms
Kudos to Microsoft and the teams (.Net, etc.) that made this possible! This is really big! What's the team's plan to extend MAUI to Linux? This is key, considering it was the platform that set the cross-platform (xPlat) .Net in motion, where Mono, MonoDevelop (now Visual Studio for Mac), among others, were bred. For example, is it possible to officially support an MAUI implementation for Linux modelled around Gtk? Like what has already been started here? Linux had so much love during the Mono/Xamarin days and has continued to enjoy same as .Net Core (now .Net all across) matures into being genuinely cross-platform. Linux's support will really be a game-changer! MAUI will then be "One Codebase, Many Platforms", indeed! Thanks once again for all the work on MAUI. It's awesome!
What are some alternatives?
Uno Platform - Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.
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.
Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET UI client technology
managed-midi - [Past project] Cross-platform MIDI processing library for mono and .NET (ALSA, CoreMIDI, Android, WinMM and UWP).
Jaya - Cross platform file manager application for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. (planned mobile support)
Eto.Forms - Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET
avalonia-dotnet-templates - Avalonia Templates for `dotnet new`
WolvenKit - Community Mod editor/creator for REDengine games.
QtSharp - Mono/.NET bindings for Qt