Question about TouchEffect - moving from Xamarin

[ziomek64]

I'm trying to move from Xamarin and that toolkit. There is no TouchEffect here? I need TouchEffect.Nativeanimation and Toucheffect.command

[brminnick]

Hi @ziomek64!

To use TouchEffect with your .NET MAUI app today, we recommend using the Xamarin.CommunityToolkit.MauiCompat NuGet Package.

Xamarin.CommunityToolkit.MauiCompat contains all of the same features as Xamarin.CommunityToolkit, ported to .NET MAUI. You can read more information about it here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/introducing-net-maui-compatibility-for-the-xamarin-community-toolkit/.

Long story short, Effects are no longer recommended in .NET MAUI. We plan to introduce the functionality of TouchEffect from Xamarin.CommunityToolkit as a Behavior in the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit, and you can follow the progress here:

• [Proposal] Drop the Effects API and migrate all Effects to be Behaviors  #124
• [Proposal] TouchEffect #86

We would love your help writing the code for the Touch behavior! The Community Toolkit contains features for, and created by, the .NET MAUI Community. We are all volunteers, contributing code in our spare time on nights and weekends. If you'd like to contribute, you can learn more here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/contributing-to-net-maui-community-toolkit/

[ziomek64]

@brminnick Should I use this package alongside maui toolkit or instead of it? Or it doesn't really matter?

[brminnick]

When porting Xamarin.Forms apps to .NET MAUI, we recommend using Xamarin.CommunityToolkit.MauiCompat as a temporary bridge. Eventually, you'll want to use CommunityToolkit.Maui because Xamarin.CommunityToolkit.MauiCompat is not receiving any new features will be deprecated alongside Xamarin.Forms.

[ziomek64]

ok @brminnick so I installed and trying to configure it MauiProgram.cs:

using Microsoft.Maui.Controls.Compatibility.Hosting;

namespace MauiApp1;
public static class MauiProgram
{

	public static MauiApp CreateMauiApp()
	{
		var builder = MauiApp.CreateBuilder();
		builder
			.UseMauiApp<App>()
            .ConfigureMauiHandlers(handlers =>
            {
                // Register ALL handlers in the Xamarin Community Toolkit assembly
                handlers.AddCompatibilityRenderers(typeof(Xamarin.CommunityToolkit.UI.Views.MediaElementRenderer).Assembly);
            })
			.ConfigureFonts(fonts =>
			{
				fonts.AddFont("OpenSans-Regular.ttf", "OpenSansRegular");
				fonts.AddFont("OpenSans-Semibold.ttf", "OpenSansSemibold");
			});
            

        return builder.Build();
	}
}

I'm getting error that MediaElementRenderer does not exist in the Xamarin.CommunityToolkit.UI.Views

[brminnick]

Could you provide the stack trace?

Is the error happening on iOS, Android or Windows? Xamarin.CommunityToolkit.MauiCompat doesn't yet support Windows.

[ziomek64]

@brminnick that explains a lot because I was trying to run the app on Windows. Android on the other hand throws this when the nuget package is installed. Stangely uninstalling the nuget does not fix it. The app was working on android before nuget was installed.
java.lang.RuntimeException: com.android.tools.r8.CompilationFailedException: Compilation failed to complete, origin: C:\Users\mrady\.nuget\packages\xamarin.google.guava.listenablefuture\1.0.0.5\buildTransitive\net6.0-android31.0\..\..\jar\guava-listenablefuture.jar : com/google/common/util/concurrent/ListenableFuture.class MauiApp2 C:\Program Files\dotnet\packs\Microsoft.Android.Sdk.Windows\32.0.300-rc.1.4\tools\Xamarin.Android.D8.targets 79

[CliffAgius]

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