Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI)
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Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI)
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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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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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I'm getting tired of these new waves of posts against Maui
But, if you really want to add some value, luckily, Maui is an open source platform, the code is right there, dig into it, and learn how it works under the hood (it will also help you to learn a lot, trust me), you found something to be fixed and know how to do it? then do fix it and open a PR with the solution, you found a workaround to some issues? Then open a PR with the solution or share it with others.
Looking at the oft-mentioned 2.3K issues on the MAUI repo, I think there's a pretty even split a given issue will be one of these: valid, duplicate, user error, feature request. Seriously, just scroll through the first couple of pages. Maybe they need to control that better, but it seems far from representative of "MAUI bugs".
- Is it possible to build a "desktop" type app with Blazor WebAssembly/PWA?
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MauiKit 3.0 released
The official issue is already 3 years old... https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/34
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Memory leaks in pages
I have some memory heavy pages which causing the problem because android never disposes transient pages: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/14654
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Anyone willing to discuss a potential effort to add Web Assembly to .NET MAUI as an Open Source project?
you mean like this: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/4528 ?
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Duda carrera: C#/.NET vs. Node/Express
MAUI (sucesor de Xamarin.Forms): Licencia MIT.
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ShellContent Icons do not respond to theme change
Github bug #11849Here
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Ask HN: Write once, run anywhere front ends failed. Thoughts?
> the first, MVP-style, attempt will be using Electron.
Good choice.
If you want to stick to HTML...WebView2 is suppose to replace it, but it assumes your backend code is .NET or C++, instead of JS/Node.js. Microsoft Teams is using it.
If you want to use native Windows UI components from JS code, then React Native for Windows is recommended. Facebook Messenger is using it.
All approaches require C# or C++ modules to be used to interact with the Windows Platform. Or there is: https://github.com/tjanczuk/edge.
The recommended approach is WinUI 3 which would involve C#/C++ and XAML.
To SwiftUI/React/JetPack are called module-view-update (MVU). There is an MVU for C# called Comet. https://github.com/dotnet/Comet#key-concepts
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Clippy goes full cross-platform thanks to Avalonia UI framework
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.
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Hot reload with VS Code and iOS
That was using the experimental Comet extension and lib, based on .NET MAUI. You can find instructions here: https://github.com/dotnet/Comet
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Is it possible to make desktop app gui's with just C#?
There are also experimental libraries for .NET MAUI, which let's you create UI only with C#: Comet, MauiReactor
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Is .net MAUI appropriate for a bachelor's thesis?
Yeah the hybrid blazor stuff is interesting. So is https://github.com/dotnet/Comet.
- Why is xaml still a thing?
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Minimalistic fluent api in C# to create complex reactive Avalonia applications
There is an alternative using MAUI .Net Comet
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Cross platform gui frameworks that aren't xaml-based?
Also Comet (as a proof of concept only)
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Views in Comet
Within a ShapeView you can draw shapes: Capsule, Circle, Ellipse, Path, Pill, Rectangle, and RoundedRectangle.
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Managing State in Comet
Comet promotes a variation of the Model-View-Update pattern popularized by The Elm Architecture, Elmish, Fabulous and others. The major parts of MVU are:
What are some alternatives?
Flutter - Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond
Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.
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.
Uno Platform - Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.
react-native-windows - A framework for building native Windows apps with React.
material-design-icons - Material Design icons by Google
Mono - Mono open source ECMA CLI, C# and .NET implementation.
ASP.NET Core - ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Socket.io - Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)
ASP.NET MVC Boilerplate Framework - .NET Core Extensions and Helper NuGet packages.
ABP - Open Source Web Application Framework for ASP.NET Core. Offers an opinionated architecture to build enterprise software solutions with best practices on top of the .NET and the ASP.NET Core platforms. Provides the fundamental infrastructure, production-ready startup templates, application modules, UI themes, tooling, guides and documentation.