Xamarin
Avalonia
Xamarin | Avalonia | |
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13 | 255 | |
1,868 | 23,927 | |
0.5% | 2.0% | |
0.0 | 9.9 | |
about 22 hours ago | 6 days ago | |
C# | C# | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Xamarin
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Xamarin Android App
You can migrate your app to .NET 6 or .NET 7 for Android now - https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/wiki/Migrating-Xamarin.Android-Applications-to-.NET-6
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Should I start migrating my Xamarin app to MAUI
My grad learned basic Android dev in like a week, and proceeded to smash it out better and faster than the original. Jetpack Compose is fantastic and simply unavailable in Xamarin.
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Duda carrera: C#/.NET vs. Node/Express
Xamarin.Android: Licencia MIT
- Decompressing and recompressing a Xamarin .dll from an APK?
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Best Way to Call API on a Scheduled Cadence?
I read that Broadcast Receiver is no longer guarenteed to trigger on exact times. Which doesn't really matter for my purpose, but seemed to me to be an indication that this wasn't quite what I was looking for.
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Xamarin.Android development possible on Linux in 2022?
You can build it yourself or download a package from https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android.
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Unpopular Opinion: MAUI does NOT replace Xamarin
MAUI on Android uses: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android
- Is Xamarin native development still feasible, or will we **have** to transition to MAUI?
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Xamarin Hidden Android SDK Versions Solution
Google updated their .xml file in a way our code couldn't handle: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/issues/6965
- Have teams that migrated to Visual Studio 2022 with their Xamarin Forms app experienced a smooth transition?
Avalonia
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The search for easier safe systems programming
WPF is not the best example of open source, as some components are still closed source. Though it only runs on Windows, a closed source operating system, so perhaps that is not so important.
https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/2554
That said, there are cross platform, open source .NET UI frameworks out there, including one that is inspired by WPF:
https://avaloniaui.net/
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Industrial Controller? Windows or Linux?
You might also want to look at AvaloniaUI[0] for a cross platform .NET GUI library. It is similar to WPF but much nicer to work with.
[0] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
- Avalonia – Farewell to the .NET Foundation
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AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
Production user here. There's no money gotchas. They're above reproach. In fact, I've received considerable free support from their devs on GitHub Issues [1].
The Avalonia business model is based on selling XPF, which runs WPF (Windows-only) apps on other platforms. That's very interesting to big corps with existing codebases.
See my comment [2]
[1] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246988#39249128
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.NET on Linux: What a Contrast
Yes, but the portable GUI frameworks by Microsoft themselves are generally not very good, and they tend to be abandoned after a couple of years.
Avalonia is developed outside of the Microsoft corporate madness and seems to be slowly becoming the defacto cross-platform framework because it is expected to last a bit longer than a manager's attention span: https://avaloniaui.net/
- Too many Mac apps are being built with Electron
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Ask HN: Do you have a problem you'd pay to have taken away?
Not my comment, but relevant here "The problem with compiling Skia to WASM is you'll lose any benefits of hardware graphics acceleration on the device."
(From https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/discussions/6831#disc... )
- Dezvoltare aplicatie desktop
- Ask HN: How to create web, mobile, and desktop apps from a single code base?
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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)
What are some alternatives?
Titanium - 🚀 Native iOS and Android Apps with JavaScript
Uno Platform - Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.
xamarin-macios - .NET for iOS, Mac Catalyst, macOS, and tvOS provide open-source bindings of the Apple SDKs for use with .NET managed languages such as C#
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.
Xamarin.Forms - Xamarin.Forms is no longer supported. Migrate your apps to .NET MAUI.
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
Mapsui - Mapsui is a .NET Map component for: MAUI, WPF, Avalonia, Uno, Blazor, WinUI, Xamarin and Eto
MahApps.Metro - A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.
shadowsocks-windows - A C# port of shadowsocks
Gtk# - Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono