Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI)
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Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI)
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Is the Web Browser the Most Important Platform for App Development?
Unified Codebases: Frameworks like Uno Platform and .NET MAUI enable developers to write once and deploy across web and native platforms.
- Developers are not happy with .NET MAUI, but nobody in the team cares about it
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Android predictive back support
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
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Group List View And Collection View are not working In .NET MAVI For IOS
Below issue is still reproducing in Maui .net7.0 version also. #10163
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.NET 8 – MAUI
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.
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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
- MSFTbot: “We've moved this issue to the Backlog milestone”
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Every other tab in Shell doesn't show Shell.TitleView on Android
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:
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Bindable properties issue with Custom controls
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.
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?
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 UI client technology
Uno Platform - Open-source platform for building cross-platform native Mobile, Web, Desktop and Embedded apps quickly. Create rich, C#/XAML, single-codebase apps from any IDE. Hot Reload included! 90m+ NuGet Downloads!!
WPF - WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
Eto.Forms - Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET
managed-midi - [Past project] Cross-platform MIDI processing library for mono and .NET (ALSA, CoreMIDI, Android, WinMM and UWP).
react-native-windows - A framework for building native Windows apps with React.
QtSharp - Mono/.NET bindings for Qt
material-design-icons - Material Design icons by Google (Material Symbols)
dotnet-webgl-sample - .NET + WebAssembly + WebGL = 💖