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Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI)
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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
GraphicsControls
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MAUI might be the worst developer experience I have had with any framework, ever.
If you need this scenario, you can take a look at Maui.Graphics.Controls, and see if that fits your needs, right it's an experimental idea.
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Has MAUI improved last couple of months?
And as Microsoft mentioned in the podcast, there are also implementations that use drawn controls, but those are not the standard ones and must be specifically downloaded separately by the developer. For example, https://github.com/dotnet/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Controls - " a .NET MAUI experiment that offers cross-platform, pixel-perfect, drawn controls"
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Clippy goes full cross-platform thanks to Avalonia UI framework
To note, Maui does theoretically allow pixel perfect rendering with it's renderer architecture. An experiment called Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Controls does that through Maui.Graphics and can be a possible solution for targeting Linux. Though yeah it's an experiment overall than sometimes supported at the moment.
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Performance Improvements in .NET MAUI
As u/RirinDesuyo pointed out, there actually exists an experimental rendered backend for MAUI. If it's indeed a viable path, I'm sure it will be provided as an option or even as a default in the future. No great rewrite needed.
Linux is experimentally supported if you use Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Controls
MAUI's architecture is flexible enough to allow rendered controls and there's an experimental repo that does exactly that called Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Controls and you could even mix native ones with it.
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Does MAUI support web somehow?
It doesn't support web. The most promising components at the moment to make this happen are: - https://github.com/dotnet/GraphicsControls . First they will need to get this working with normal platforms. - https://github.com/dotnet/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics . A dependency of the above library. Web code exists here but is not yet functional. - Blazor. In order to deploy usable Blazor wasm apps they need to get AOT support working: https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/5466 (Note the blazor you read about that is connected with MAUI is just another style of writing MAUI apps and doesn't allow MAUI apps to run on the web.)
- 5 Advantages of .NET MAUI Over Xamarin
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Have you noticed any changes over the last couple of years in the number of new Xamarin opportunities?
We also have many more plans and experiments in store (ie: take a look at https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/GraphicsControls for some ideas the team is experimenting with in their spare time).
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.