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David Ortinau

Posted on Jul 18, 2022

Roundup of .NET MAUI. - Week of July 11, 2022

Wow, lots of libraries and especially videos this week about .NET MAUI. I just got back from a full week at HQ in Redmond meeting with teammates I haven't seen in more than 2 years or...ever.

Table of Contents:

Libraries
Videos

Libraries

Material Color Utilities

A .NET MAUI implementation of a Google library, this gives you Material Design colors so you can easily utilize them in your app plus some helpers. You can use the colors as defined, or add your own overrides and fallbacks. The readme has code snippets:

albi005 / MaterialColorUtilities

Material You color algorithms for .NET

MaterialColorUtilities

C# implementation of Google's Material color utilities

Features

HCT: a color space similar to HSL but with perceptually accurate colors
Quantize and score: extract the best colors from an image for theming
Scheme: turn a single color into a palette for theming
Style: different ways to generate palettes, available from Android 13
Generic scheme: color schemes can be easily converted to use the color type you need

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MaterialColorUtilities.Maui

A library for adding Material You colors to your .NET MAUI app

Features

Dynamic theming on every platform (except iOS)
Light/dark theme support
Automatically storing and reapplying seed color/dark mode/style preferences

All of these can be turned on/off at any time.

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Samples

There are sample projects for the console, Blazor and .NET MAUI in the Playground folder. These showcase different ways to use the two libraries.

Questions

You can ask questions under…

View on GitHub

https://www.nuget.org/packages/MaterialColorUtilities.Maui

https://github.com/albi005/MaterialColorUtilities

TeeChart

Steema has released an update to TeeChart for .NET MAUI. This includes charts, map, and gauge controls covering dozens of use cases.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/Steema.TeeChart.NET.MAUI/4.2022.7.13-beta

Community Toolkit

The team shipped 1.1.0 and Pedro Jesus has guest-blogged about customizing controls and the toolkit. This release includes the long awaited (BY ME) IconTintColorBehavior!

<Image Source="home.png">
    <Image.Behaviors>
        <mct:IconTintColorBehavior TintColor="Purple"/>
    </Image.Behaviors>
</Image>

https://www.nuget.org/packages/CommunityToolkit.Maui

SkiaSharp Various Packages

Matthew Leibowitz on the .NET MAUI team shipped a bunch of updates this past week, including a SkiaSharp view for .NET MAUI that plays Lottie animations!

All the NuGets

XCalendar

I may have highlighted this one before. I've built calendar controls before, and it's so fun I would prefer to just use something like this. ;) Check it out.