xamarin-macios
Bridges the worlds of .NET with the native APIs of macOS, iOS, tvOS, and watchOS. (by xamarin)
macos-virtualbox
Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS (by myspaghetti)
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| xamarin-macios | macos-virtualbox | |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | 54 | |
| 2,355 | 13,422 | |
| 0.3% | - | |
| 9.9 | 5.3 | |
| 5 days ago | 9 months ago | |
| C# | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
xamarin-macios
Posts with mentions or reviews of xamarin-macios.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-18.
- Setting up Development & Distribution of Xamarin App (without help from original developer)
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Duda carrera: C#/.NET vs. Node/Express
Xamarin.ios y Xamarin.Mac: Licencia MIT.
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How to Build Mobile Document Scanning App with Xamarin.Forms for Android and iOS
Try to build the project for Android and iOS respectively. If you suffered from the iOS build issue Error MT4109: Failed to compile the generated registrar code caused by Xcode 14, you can visit https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/issues/15954 to find the solution. The issue can be fixed by installing xamarin.ios-16.0.0.72.pkg. To run the app on iOS 16, turn on Settings > Privacy & Security > Developer Mode.
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I’m Stuck, Need Help Fast
See this for more info.
- Can't connect to X Code simulator
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Xcode 14
There is nothing planned. Downgrade immediately https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/issues/15954
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Unpopular Opinion: MAUI does NOT replace Xamarin
MAUI on iOS and MacCatalyst use: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios
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.NET MAUI GA
You can see in old issues like this how uncertain even the core team was about it. It's not really tenable to fly that blind.
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Can anyone tell Visual studio for mac 2022 release date and Maui release date?
I think they're still doing tooling updates for Xamarin for a while. For one, there are platforms that for now aren't (yet) moving to .NET 6 at all, such as watchOS. And second, they seem to have changed their Apple platforms tooling to basically dual-target Mono (for Xamarin) and .NET 6 (for MAUI).
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Kanbann: Apple Watch Trello App - looking for beta testers
Microsoft decided not to support the Apple Watch in .NET 6 (https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/issues/8955), which made me uncertain as to its future on the Apple Watch - I was also interested in learning Swift and SwiftUI.
macos-virtualbox
Posts with mentions or reviews of macos-virtualbox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-15.
- I need to create a virtual machine on my windows that runs macos
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How can I read the contents of a iMac backup from a Time Capsule on a Windows 10 pc
I think VMware is the simplest way to go, but it looks like VirtualBox will do up to macOS Catalina if using this script.
- Help with macOS Monterey on Virtualbox
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Create a VM in Virtualbox, github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox failed
From a Linux box, I try to create a hackintosh VM in Virtualbox, I tried https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox/blob/master/macos-guest-virtualbox.sh but the boot hangs on `UEFI shell`:
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Help setting up macOS VM on Windows 10 Laptop
I've tested this script. It doesn't support the latest versions, but it worked
- Geneious instantly crashing on Mac OS Monterey 12.6 - Help
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lightest weight VM to just run iMessage
I installed myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox and it's running fine (except still having issues with new apple accounts logging into imessage, old ones work fine).
- macOS virtual box on shit computer or steam deck?
- Is it possible to run Mac OS on a hypervisor?
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[question] Do y'all know how to downgrade iPhone 3,3 to iOS 6???
Personally, I have found this helpful to set up macOS VMs on real Macs.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xamarin-macios and macos-virtualbox you can also consider the following projects:
iFakeLocation - Simulate locations on iOS devices on Windows, Mac and Ubuntu.
UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS
translatefgo - FGO Translation Project
macOS-Simple-KVM - Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.
Xamarin - .NET for Android provides open-source bindings of the Android SDK for use with .NET managed languages such as C#
lima - Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers
maui-linux - .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
colima - Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
uikit-sys - Rust Bindings for the iOS UIKit Objective-C framework
OSX-KVM - Run macOS on QEMU/KVM. With OpenCore + Monterey + Ventura + Sonoma support now! Only commercial (paid) support is available now to avoid spammy issues. No Mac system is required.
MVVMCross - The .NET MVVM framework for cross-platform solutions, including Android, iOS, MacCatalyst, macOS, tvOS, WPF, WinUI
osx-serial-generator - Mac Serial Generator - Generate complete sets of Serial Numbers for OSX-KVM, Docker-OSX and of course, OpenCore.
xamarin-macios vs iFakeLocation
macos-virtualbox vs UTM
xamarin-macios vs translatefgo
macos-virtualbox vs macOS-Simple-KVM
xamarin-macios vs Xamarin
macos-virtualbox vs lima
xamarin-macios vs maui-linux
macos-virtualbox vs colima
xamarin-macios vs uikit-sys
macos-virtualbox vs OSX-KVM
xamarin-macios vs MVVMCross
macos-virtualbox vs osx-serial-generator