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

I am migrating XF app into MAUI and writing a simple Navigation framework because Prism doesn't work well and I didn't use anything advanced anyway. So, I am surfing the code of MAUI to intercept all the back buttons, etc. I haven't found a single mention of apis related to predictive back "RegisterOnBackInvokedCallback", "OnBackInvokedDispatcher", "OnBackPressedDispatcher", "AddCallback", "android:enableOnBackInvokedCallback" Also I don't see any issue on github that would say "Support Android Predictive back". Only one kinda related https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/8680

Below issue is still reproducing in Maui .net7.0 version also. #10163

Maui is Open Source, MIT License

https://github.com/dotnet/maui

.NET is Open Source

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/open-source

I do share your skepticism of Microsoft, but it looks like the economics and cash flow dynamics have changed drastically after the advent of the cloud.

Microsoft is more focused on getting developers onto its ecosystem and help them with open source projects with the hope that they will use its Azure cloud services and bring in the money.

My skepticism is a bit relaxed now and I have no qualms using .NET.

I hope I am not wrong.

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)

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

First I came across this Github issue: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/9687 - According to this issue, this is a known bug for MAUI iOS, but it works OK for MAUI Android. As I said, I target Android only and I have the exact same issue. It's apparantly fixed with some of the latest versions for MAUI but the problem still occurs to me even with MAUI version:

I saw this and tried to imitate (ofc my lack of experience wouldn't allow me to do it in the exact way). Already found some documentation that allowed to understand better. Thanks for the insigh.

I implemented the Auth controller following this sample code from Microsoft.

https://aspnetboilerplate.com/ (por si alguien le interesa)

This is pretty similar

Aspnet boilerplate has great documentation and handles multi tenant. Good design patterns and supports several front-end frameworks. https://aspnetboilerplate.com/

DotNetBoilerplate might suit your needs. They also have a more advanced commercial offering

Hi beautiful people of learnprogramming. I’m a Junior-Developer and I‘m having a hard time learning the backend-part of the Framework I been using for the past months. We use ASP.NET for the backend and Angular for the front. The angular part gets slowly better, the backend I‘m a complete noob. We use http://aspnetboilerplate.com and the learning curve is so high.

Evo ja trenutno radim za klijenta koji ima vise projekata i koriste ASP.netZero koji se placa a bazira se na AspNetBolerplejtu. Ti bojlerplejtovi su odmah spremi za rad sa Angularom, Vue ili Reactom za front.

Hands down ABP. Download and follow the tutorials, you’ll get a great education out of it. It’s multi tenant and the documentation is excellent. ASP.net: https://aspnetboilerplate.com

ABP was an acronym for "ASP.NET Boilerplate". However, it is the name of the previous generation: https://aspnetboilerplate.com/ ABP.IO is the next generation of the ASP.NET Boilerplate framework and we no longer use the long name, because the "Boilerplate" word is misleading (they think it is just a startup template, but actually a complete framework & platform).

Alright, so I'm using an https://aspnetboilerplate.com/ template with Angular and it's awesome. Basic Angular app that is responsive, lots of out of the box functionality to play with. Here's a screenshot of the structure: https://imgur.com/a/WOPOKj1