After almost a years worth of part time work, I now have my cross platform, react native like UI framework in a state where I could "Show Off". There is likely another years worth of polish and feature additions needed before I could publish my work. Still fun to show off at this stage.

Thank you to the SkiaSharp team for making it a reality since the libraries availability is what started the dream which is becoming reality.

The Dream:

Ability to write applications in .NET Standard 2.0 C# code which could run cross platform on Android, iOS(powered by Xamarin) and Windows, Mac, Linux (powered by .NET core).

Tired of MvvM and bindings.... Drinking the "React style functional composition based component architecture" koolaid.

Tired of coding UI's in different languages. (XAML/CS) or (HTML/JS)

Developer first KISS/'cut the fat' based principles and design.

The Progress:

Scheduler for Building, Layout, and Rendering Components.

Component based build process. Similar to 'flutter' Build or how 'React' uses the Render function.

Facebook YOGA based flexbox component layout.

SkiaSharp Renderer and Compositor. (Rendering, Clipping)

Full SVG Rendering Capability

Bubble and Tunnel Events (Click/Touch, Keyboard, mousewheel) and 'focus'

Basic Components (Checkbox, ToggleBox, TextBlock, TextBox, ScrollBox, Rows, Columns)

Interface projects for routing Xamarin.Forms and Winforms host to the UI Framework.

Theme Support

The Todo List:

Animation

Gestures

Some more basic component implementation and fleshing out ones I have.

Advanced text layout concepts. This is a big problem for me right now since proper text layout engine is tough to build and cant find an existing engine in c# or cross-platform implementation with c# bindings.

Complete interface wrappers for additional functionality.

The Pictures:

Customer View:

Developer View: