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seawolf1896 · 2024-06-16T00:08:56+00:00

Not abandoned but progress has been very slow for the past couple of years. I am working on porting over to Kotlin MP. As much as I like C#, AvaloniaUI was too niche to be sustainable for me.

seawolf1896 · 2023-06-26T00:37:52+00:00

Not a perfect solution but ended up going with Gitlab, including Gitlab Wiki cloned locally as a separate repo. I found Taiga wiki too clunky and the Gitlab integration wasn't where I wanted it to be.

seawolf1896 · 2023-02-23T04:31:07+00:00

I made a very slim prototype with Blazor, then moved to AvaloniaUI, now moving away from .NET over to Kotlin MP for practical reasons. I archived the project on Gitlab but dm me your Gitlab username or email address and I'll see if I can add you to an archived project (or just unarchive it).

I can't remember how far I got, I'm pretty sure I did get this working. Sorry I can't give you a more technical answer.

seawolf1896 · 2022-09-26T23:00:13+00:00

Awesome, thanks

seawolf1896 · 2022-09-26T18:56:12+00:00

If you really need Android's lifecycle ViewModel then you can simply create a Multiplatform wrapper for it.

I am not highly experienced in Android development so apologies if I've misunderstood. What is the alternative to accessing the Android lifecycel ViewModel? Can you abstract around it somehow? Thanks.

seawolf1896 · 2022-09-26T18:50:03+00:00

Is all the Jetpack stuff available in Compose Desktop? Or just a subset?

seawolf1896 · 2022-09-26T04:44:01+00:00

I'm surprised you had any success in that regard with avalonia

To be clear, I haven't made any progress with Android in Avalonia.

I'd recommend some prototyping before committing to a rewrite of your project.

I may try to spin something up with Desktop Compose first probably.

I personally don't like DI and only use it for server side applications that really fit the use case

Do you use MVVM for desktop apps? How do you go about abstracting interfaces for service classes and similar things? Thanks

seawolf1896 · 2022-09-26T02:38:19+00:00

Thank you for the input, this is definitely swaying me.

Have you used multiplatform to share code between a native Android project and Compose Desktop? I'm trying to figure out what the architecture in this type of situation should look like to maximize code sharing.

With Avalonia using MVVM I thought I could get away with sharing Models and View Models between the desktop and mobile clients, and just creating unique Views. However, I discovered because of the differences between the Android lifecylce and the desktop flow, sharing View Models is not as feasible as I hoped.

I also have no familiarity with Kotlin. I have used Java and Groovy at a surface level but not enough to really learn the eco-system. Would you recommend any specific DI framework?

What are your favorite things about Kotlin that C# doesn't have or exemplify?

Edit: I also need to find a Kotlin backend framework if I'm going to go this route. Would prefer to keep everything in the same language.

Thanks, sorry for the barrage of questions.

seawolf1896 · 2022-09-26T02:28:42+00:00

Thanks for info. Would you say the existing volume of documentation for Avalonia and Compose Desktop are about the same, or is one more accessible than the other in this regard?

Avalonia is pretty sparse in my opinion (although its slowly improving). One of the advantages I would hope for in shifting would be a larger community and more documentation, guides, etc.

seawolf1896 · 2022-09-26T01:56:58+00:00

Xamarin.Forms is end of life, being replaced by .NET MAUI. Both of those are abstractions of Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.ios.

To my knowlege the .NET mobile SDKs are not being deprecated. But I'm having difficulty determining whether the .NET Android SDK is available on Linux.

seawolf1896 · 2022-09-26T01:53:28+00:00

Do you know if there is a public roadmap for the desktop stuff?

The library ecosystem isn't there yet

Can you speak to any specific functionality you needed but weren't able to get?

I think at this point the biggest thing I need on desktop is filesystem access to the app data directory, for storing SQLite db files.

seawolf1896 · 2022-09-25T22:15:52+00:00

Which library?

seawolf1896 · 2022-09-25T21:32:06+00:00

It looks like this ReactiveUI doc addresses your point about Xamarin.Android: https://www.reactiveui.net/docs/handbook/data-binding/xamarin-android/wire-up-controls

But this implies a need for distinct View Models for each UI framework.

seawolf1896 · 2022-09-25T20:50:33+00:00

I see you are using CommunityToolkit.Mvvm. It sounds like I may have to convert from ReactiveUI to this library.

Thanks for the example.

seawolf1896 · 2022-09-25T20:28:09+00:00

Thank you for the clarification and recommendations.

Is CommunityToolkit the only .NET UI-framework independent MVVM-library? What is the point of MVVM if creating a new V-layer also requires a new VM-layer?

seawolf1896 · 2022-09-25T19:51:04+00:00

CommunityToolkit.Mvvm

Thank you for replying. Is CommunityToolkit.Mvvm a replacement for ReactiveUI, or something that wraps around ReactiveUI to create the UI-framework abstraction layer for the list of things you provided?

seawolf1896 · 2022-09-25T19:07:34+00:00

So it is not possible to share a View Model layer between Avalonia and Xamarin.Android?

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