Building MAUI with Binding/Layout/Themes on top of another engine with Binding/Layout/Themes doesn't sound efficient.
Plus, it is my assumption/understanding that there's no way 3rd party controls will be able to run on Linux/Browser unless they're built directly against MAUI API without any Native our Skia dependencies, which is almost never the case from the libraries I've been using.
Had a chance to compare both Uno and Avalonia and I choose Uno any day. Mostly because of the breadth of what they have. Their Navigation "Extensions", Authentication, Toolkit controls, and their Hot Reload is awesome.
Now the fact they announced a Drag&Drop Designer seals the deal.
Been trying to use VS Code more and more with Uno and it works great.
I see Avalonia has having a decent Desktop offering but I target Mobile and Web and they're nowhere where Uno is.
Interesting. Here someone comes to the opposite conclusion after using both intensively [0], where they found that avalonia is a superset of uno in features, and that uno is tied to the UWP & WinUI API for the windows target. Maybe things have changed in between?
What is your feel about the web target? The ux and feel of these Canvas blobs are poor across all toolkits imho. Do you use it as an internal web app that is used like once every day?
Uno doesn't use MAUI. It's either WinUI or Skia-based, just like Avalonia.
Uno also doesn't use Canvas on Web, it uses the DOM. I use it for an enterprise Web App, not a public website.
I feel Nick been pro Avalonia forever as far as I can tell and the pace at which am noticing Uno innovating, one year might make all the difference in the world.
In all cases, I made my mind by testing both and I just had a way better experience with Uno, everything available out of the box, the tooling is above and beyond.
Anyways, just wanted to share by point of view, typically don't contribute here.
Plus, it is my assumption/understanding that there's no way 3rd party controls will be able to run on Linux/Browser unless they're built directly against MAUI API without any Native our Skia dependencies, which is almost never the case from the libraries I've been using.
Am I right?