Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) Alternatives

Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) reviews and mentions

• Developers are not happy with .NET MAUI, but nobody in the team cares about it
  1 project | /r/hackernews | 27 Nov 2023
• Android predictive back support
  1 project | /r/dotnetMAUI | 25 Nov 2023

  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

• Group List View And Collection View are not working In .NET MAVI For IOS
  1 project | /r/dotnetMAUI | 25 Nov 2023

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

• .NET 8 – MAUI
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Nov 2023

  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.

• .NET 8 – .NET Blog
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Nov 2023

  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's New in Final RC for .NET 8, .NET MAUI, Asp.net Core and EF8
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Oct 2023

  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”
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2023
• Every other tab in Shell doesn't show Shell.TitleView on Android
  1 project | /r/dotnetMAUI | 31 Jul 2023

  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:

• Bindable properties issue with Custom controls
  1 project | /r/dotnetMAUI | 12 Jun 2023

  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.

• ASP.NET Core - how to create an IdentityUser account from an external login
  1 project | /r/csharp | 31 May 2023

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

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