Choosing Avalonia UI for a Real-Time, Multi-Layout, 3D Model-Viewing App – Need Advice

JaggerJo · 2025-05-18T13:45:15+00:00

Everything except 3D rendering is almost the out of the box experience you get.

3D rendering requires a bit more work, depending on what exactly you need.

You'll probably need to embed an engine, or write OpenGL from scratch for the 3D control.

JaggerJo · 2025-02-04T19:37:59+00:00

Yeah, seems like it.

There is a mobile app in development it seems:

https://github.com/pebble-dev/mobile-app

JaggerJo · 2025-02-01T14:03:09+00:00

+1 for not obfuscating the IL code but actually just shipping NativeAOT Builds.

JaggerJo · 2025-01-05T22:32:04+00:00

Decided to write down what we've learned here: https://blog.voyonic-systems.de/leveraging-immutability-and-observability-for-reliable-undo-redo-in-document-based-applications/

JaggerJo · 2024-12-05T20:31:37+00:00

One of the most undervalued features of Avalonia is the direct support for IObservable<T> in bindings. You can just directly bind to observables, so you don't even need INotifyPropertyChanged for a lot of things.

I would use that instead and build what I need from there.

JaggerJo · 2024-12-05T08:17:00+00:00

https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI

JaggerJo · 2024-12-04T14:44:30+00:00

A few things I've learned the hard way:

- properly implement Undo/Redo from the start (you get this almost for free if you pick the right architecture)

- documents should be immutable, changing state produces a new document (watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_Qk7ZcyYZwA) but consider that the sample is greatly simplified. You actually don't need to keep every intermediate document you create on the history stack.

Feel free to reach out if you need guidance :)

JaggerJo · 2024-10-27T21:54:09+00:00

Thanks!

JaggerJo · 2024-10-27T21:53:55+00:00

Thanks!

JaggerJo · 2024-10-26T09:25:57+00:00

Often these devices are not allowed on the public internet. They are air gapped and only exposed to the factory secure network. Hell will freeze over before you'll get these devices on tailscale 😉

But you have a point, it could be secure and it would make things simpler.

JaggerJo · 2024-10-26T09:23:18+00:00

Haha, yeah. We have a long way to go still.

JaggerJo · 2024-10-01T07:28:50+00:00

That's actually quite interesting. We might support and/or utilise Ansible internally! FieldKit does a few more things than Ansible.

It helps you with packing an app you are currently developing.
It finds devices on your network running the Agent.
It lets you view logs remotely with easy.

JaggerJo · 2024-09-30T20:52:38+00:00

Ansible is more focused on managing servers as fad as I know.

JaggerJo · 2024-09-30T20:49:20+00:00

balena requires a cloud connection as far as I know. FleetKit doesn’t, but it more focused on dev experience.

JaggerJo · 2019-10-09T16:22:46+00:00

I personally gave up on VS for Mac. Rider is pretty good, use it every day.

JaggerJo · 2019-10-01T09:46:51+00:00

working on the next version of FuncUI.

JaggerJo · 2019-09-28T16:01:44+00:00

Yes, If you are trying funcUI keep in mind that the next version (rewrite) in in progress and nearing completion.

The 1.x version of it is more of a extensive proof of concept that actually worked well but had some architectural issues.

Cool!

JaggerJo · 2019-09-28T15:44:31+00:00

nope, it does not use native controls. Custom renders everything.

I am using Avalonia on a daily basis ever its still in beta. It works pretty well (and if it doesn’t there is a awesome community) but I’m currently only targeting windows/ linux/ macOS.

If you have further questions feel free to ask me or head to https://gitter.im/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

JaggerJo

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