Inside Avalonia's Cross-Platform UI Toolkit and the Quest for Quality Documentation with Mike James

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I am your host, Jamie "GaProgMan" Taylor. In this episode, I talked with Mike James about Avalonia and XPF. Mike is the CEO of Avalonia, and I wanted to talk about some of the things that Avalonia and it’s XPF offering solve. This meant discussing Avalonia’s competitors (Uno, Maui, and native apps), and talking about Avalonia’s lack of good quality documentation - this has been solved in the time since we recorded this interview (March 17th, 2023).

Along the way, we talked about open source development and some of the expectations placed on open source developers by both the community and the open source developers themselves. And make sure to stick around to the very end to hear Mike drop some software engineering wisdom when he tells us precisely how the team got a cross platform UI framework running on all of the Linuxes - the way they did it might actually shock you.

The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at  https://dotnetcore.show/episode-120-inside-avalonias-cross-platform-ui-toolkit-and-the-quest-for-quality-documentation-with-mike-james

Useful Links from the episode:

• https://www.avaloniaui.net
• https://avaloniaui.net/XPF
• https://t.me/Avalonia
• Mike on Twitter
• MonoMac
• AvaloniaUI on GitHub
• XKCD: Dependencies
• XPF
• Flight of the Concords - Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros
• Obsidian
• VS Codium
• MVVM
• WPF on GitHub
• Mike showing .NETPad using XPF
• Paul Thurrott's GitHub
• MoMA
• Olia Gavrysh from Microsoft
• Laurent Kempé requesting a demo of Family Show using XPF.
• Family Show on GitHub
• Mac Catalyst
• Skia
• Flutter

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