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Syncfusion Open Sources 14 Controls for .NET MAUI
Third-party .NET-centric dev UI tooling specialist Syncfusion this week announced the open sourcing of 14 controls for .NET MAUI, the evolution of Xamarin.Forms that adds support for building desktop apps.
Other key points of the open-source .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) include:
- Unified Framework: .NET MAUI unifies the APIs for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows into a single framework, allowing developers to create cross-platform apps with a single codebase
- Desktop Support: Unlike Xamarin.Forms, which focused primarily on mobile platforms, .NET MAUI extends support to desktop applications, enabling developers to build native apps for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android
- Improved Performance: .NET MAUI has been designed with performance improvements, including faster UI rendering and a more efficient control architecture
- Modern Technologies: It leverages the latest .NET technologies, such as .NET 6 and beyond, providing a consistent development experience across different platforms
- Open Source: .NET MAUI is open source, encouraging community contributions and collaboration
Syncfusion, which is officially noted by Microsoft as a third-party contributor to the Blazor ecosystem along with several others, has specialized in targeting .NET MAUI in its UI constructs and open sourced:
- Charts -- Cartesian, Circular, Pyramid, Funnel and Polar Chart
[Click on image for larger, animated GIF view.] .NET MAUI Charts Control in Animated Action (source: Syncfusion).
- Carousel
- TabView
- SegmentedControl
- Chips
- EffectsView
- Shimmer
- Pull To Refresh
- Text Input Layout
- Navigation Drawer
Microsoft, meanwhile, welcomed the move in its own post and detailed further collaboration with Syncfusion.
"We understand from talking to many customers that popular open-source controls and packages like the MVVM Community Toolkit and .NET MAUI Community Toolkit are essential to building your apps," said Microsoft's David Ortinau, principal product manager. "So in .NET 9, we are collaborating with Syncfusion on a new project template that includes Syncfusion Toolkit for .NET MAUI as well as these incredibly popular Community Toolkits. This app showcases recommended practices using the MVVM pattern, database access with SQLite, navigation, view refresh, and many other common patterns your apps need to employ."
Syncfusion's newly open-sourced controls will come as NuGet packages and will also be part of the new .NET MAUI project template that will accompany next month's .NET 9 release. Devs can take a look at that project now in the dotnet/maui GitHub repository as it makes its way through the review process.
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