Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) VS GraphicsControls

Compare Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) vs GraphicsControls and see what are their differences.

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. (by dotnet)

GraphicsControls

Experimental Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Controls - Build drawn controls (Cupertino, Fluent and Material) (by jsuarezruiz)
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Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI)

Posts with mentions or reviews of Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI). We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-14.

GraphicsControls

Posts with mentions or reviews of GraphicsControls. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-29.
  • MAUI might be the worst developer experience I have had with any framework, ever.
    3 projects | /r/dotnetMAUI | 29 Mar 2023
    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.
  • Has MAUI improved last couple of months?
    4 projects | /r/dotnetMAUI | 19 Mar 2023
    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"
  • Clippy goes full cross-platform thanks to Avalonia UI framework
    5 projects | /r/dotnet | 5 Mar 2023
    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.
  • Performance Improvements in .NET MAUI
    4 projects | /r/dotnet | 8 Jun 2022
    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.
    4 projects | /r/dotnet | 8 Jun 2022
    Linux is experimentally supported if you use Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Controls
    4 projects | /r/dotnet | 8 Jun 2022
    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.
  • Does MAUI support web somehow?
    5 projects | /r/dotnet | 31 Mar 2021
    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
    2 projects | /r/dotnet | 16 Mar 2021
  • Have you noticed any changes over the last couple of years in the number of new Xamarin opportunities?
    2 projects | /r/xamarindevelopers | 24 Jan 2021
    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?

When comparing Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) and GraphicsControls you can also consider the following projects:

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.