David Ortinau

Posted on Jul 5, 2022

Roundup of .NET MAUI - Week of June 27, 2022

#dotnet #beginners

What better way to catch up from my vacation than to check out the latest updates to .NET MAUI content via NuGets and YouTube videos? Ya'll been busy! Here we go:

NuGets

Source Generators

Are you looking for source generators to reduce the boilerplate code you need to write when creating bindable properties for custom components? Here are a few options:

Syncfusion Updates

Syncfusion has published update v20.2.36 for a bunch of .NET MAUI controls including:

SignaturePad
DataGrid
Maps
Barcode
Sliders
ListView
Scheduler
Gauges
Charts
TabView

https://www.syncfusion.com/maui-controls

MauiReactor + HotReload

MauiReactor is an MVU "Component based UI library inspired by ReactJS and Flutter", and the successor to ReactorUI which was based on Xamarin.Forms. Coupled with it's own Hot Reload component, and you have a nice, productive C# first development experience.

adospace / reactorui-maui

MauiReactor is a MVU UI framework built on top of MAUI.

MauiReactor

Component-based UI Library built on top of Maui Controls inspired to ReactJs and Flutter

MauiReactor is the successor of ReactorUI for Xamarin-Forms (https://github.com/adospace/reactorui-xamarin)

MauiReactor Nuget Packages

All Packages

Documentation (WIP)

Setting up MauiReactor from CLI

Install MauiReactor templates

dotnet new --install Reactor.Maui.TemplatePack

Install MauiReactor hot reload console command

dotnet tool install -g Reactor.Maui.HotReload --prerelease

Create a sample project

dotnet new maui-reactor-startup -o my-new-project
cd .\my-new-project\

Build & run the project (emulator or device must be running and configured)

dotnet build -t:Run -f net7.0-android

Hot-reload console

dotnet-maui-reactor -f net7.0-android

Edits to code should be hotreloaded by the application --> Enjoy!

View on GitHub

using MauiReactor.WeatherTwentyOne.Pages.Components;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace MauiReactor.WeatherTwentyOne.Pages
{
    internal class HomePage : Component
    {
        public override VisualNode Render()
        {
            return new ContentPage(title: "Redmond, WA")
            {
                Device.Idiom == TargetIdiom.Desktop ?
                RenderDesktopLayout()
                :
                RenderPhoneLayout()
            };
        }

        private VisualNode RenderPhoneLayout()
        {
            return new ScrollView
            {
                new VerticalStackLayout
                {
                    new CurrentWidget(),

                    new BoxView()
                        .HeightRequest(1),

                    new Next24HrWidget(),

                    new Next7DWidget()
                }
                .Padding(0,50)
                .Spacing(25)
            };
        }

        private VisualNode RenderDesktopLayout()
            => new Grid(
                rows: "*",
                columns: "*,500")
                {
                    new ScrollView
                    {
                        new VerticalStackLayout
                        {
                            new FlexLayout
                            {
                                new CurrentWidget()
                                    .Width(200),

                                new WindLiveWidget(),
                            }
                            .MinimumHeightRequest(360)
                            .AlignItems(Microsoft.Maui.Layouts.FlexAlignItems.Center)
                            .AlignContent(Microsoft.Maui.Layouts.FlexAlignContent.Center)
                            .JustifyContent(Microsoft.Maui.Layouts.FlexJustify.SpaceEvenly),

                            new BoxView()
                                .HeightRequest(1),

                            new Next24HrWidget(),

                            new Next7DWidget()
                        }
                        .Padding(0,50)
                        .Spacing(50)
                    },

                    new WidgetsPanel()
                        .GridColumn(1)
                };

    }
}

SkiaSharp.Views.Maui.Controls

This set of SkiaSharp views can be added to any .NET MAUI application for drawing. This is similar to what you can do with the built-in GraphicsView and Microsoft.Maui.Graphics, but directly to SkiaSharp.

<skia:SKCanvasView x:Name="skiaView" PaintSurface="OnPaintSurface"
                       EnableTouchEvents="True" Touch="OnTouch"
                       IgnorePixelScaling="True" />

private void OnPaintSurface(object sender, SKPaintSurfaceEventArgs e)
        {
            // the the canvas and properties
            var canvas = e.Surface.Canvas;

            // make sure the canvas is blank
            canvas.Clear(SKColors.White);

            // decide what the text looks like
            using var paint = new SKPaint
            {
                Color = SKColors.Black,
                IsAntialias = true,
                Style = SKPaintStyle.Fill,
                TextAlign = SKTextAlign.Center,
                TextSize = 24
            };

            // adjust the location based on the pointer
            var coord = (touchLocation is SKPoint loc)
                ? new SKPoint(loc.X, loc.Y)
                : new SKPoint(e.Info.Width / 2, (e.Info.Height + paint.TextSize) / 2);

            // draw some text
            canvas.DrawText("SkiaSharp", coord, paint);
        }

OnScreenSize XAML Markup Extension

Just like with OnPlatform and OnIdiom, you can specify different values to control properties based on screen dimensions with this library. This looks useful, so long as you agree on the predefined sizes I suppose. This doesn't look like it would be adaptive at runtime. For this I recommend using adaptive triggers and providing your own size requirements.

carolzbnbr / OnScreenSizeMarkup

OnScreenSizeMarkup is a XAML markup extension for controlling UI elements (Views) based on the category a device's screen sizes fits in (Medium-sized devices, Large-sized devices, and etc).

This project is based on a post I wrote a long time ago for my blog.

Maui Community Toolkit announcement

I'm pround to anounce that this project will be soon moved to Maui Community Toolkit as per these conversation.

As it is now ready for MAUI, it just a matter of days to be ported to the MCT and wait to the next release ef the Toolkit to be published.

OnScreenSizeMarkup: A XAML markup extension

OnScreenSizeMarkup is XAML markup extension for controlliing UI elements depending on the device screen size category.

Where can I use it?

OnScreenSizeMarkup is currently compatible with:

Xamarin.Forms
MAUI

What does that mean?

It works exactly as other markup extensions such as OnPlatform or OnIdiom, allowing you to control UI views accordding to the screen sizes category a device fits in.

Screen Categories

The screen sizes are grouped into six categories:

ExtraSmall - Tiny…

View on GitHub

<Grid RowDefinitions="{markups:OnScreenSize Large='200, *, 200', 
                                                     ExtraLarge='300, *, 300',
                                                     DefaultSize='100, *, 100'}">
            <Label 
                    Padding="{markups:OnScreenSize 
                            Medium='15, 15, 0, 0', 
                            Large='20, 20, 0, 0', 
                            DefaultSize='10, 10, 0, 0'}"
                    Text="Hello" TextColor="White" />
         </Grid>

ImageEdit

This is a fork of a Xamarin.Forms library updated to support .NET MAUI mobile platforms for image manipulation.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xamarin.Plugin.ImageEdit.NET/2.0.0-alpha1

using (var image = await CrossImageEdit.Current.CreateImageAsync(imageByteArray)) {
    var croped = await Task.Run(() =>
            image.Crop(10, 20, 250, 100)
                 .Rotate(180)
                 .Resize(100, 0)
                 .ToPng()
    );
}