👋Introduction of AppBase

AppBase is a set of libraries designed for .NET based application. Currently there are 9 packages providing the following functions:

📦CarinaStudio.AppBase.Core

• Extensions for System.Object to make your code more elegant and clear. (Learn more)
• Extensions for System.IDisposable to make your code more elegant and clear. (Learn more)
• Extensions for arrays and System.Memory<T> to get memory address.
• Extended System.IDisposable to make it easier to share resources across components in your application.
• Extensions for System.Collections.Generic.* for collection state checking and searching. (Learn more)
• SortedObservableList<T> to let you easy to build sorted list and display on UI. (Learn more)
• TypeConvertedObservableList<S, D> to help you to build a list based-on another list with different type of element. (Learn more)
• Extensions for System.Threading.SynchronizationContext for delayed call-back support. (Learn mode)
• Implementations of System.Threading.SynchronizationContext and System.Threading.Tasks.TaskScheduler to let you schedule and run tasks on dedicated threads. (Learn more)
• Schedulable action to execute action later and prevent duplicate execution. (Learn more)
• Implementation of System.IObservable<T> to support observable value/field just like LiveData<T> on Android. (Learn more)

📦CarinaStudio.AppBase.Configuration

• Class for key-value based application settings which supports various type of value.
• Save application settings to given file.
• Extensible settings serialization/deserializing. Implementations based-on JSON and XML format are included.

📦CarinaStudio.AppBase.Application

• IApplication to provide abstract interface to application instance no matter what UI framework you use.
• ViewModel to provide base implementation of view-model including observable properties, logger, etc.

📦CarinaStudio.AppBase.Android

• Implementation of IApplication based-on Android.App.Application.
• Implementation of ISettings based-on Android.Content.SharedPreferences.

📦CarinaStudio.AppBase.Avalonia

• Extended controls such as LinkTextBlock, DateTimeTextBox for Avalonia application.
• ProgressRing to show operation progress.
• Converters to provide more value conversion capabilities. For ex, ObjectConverters, ComparableConverters, etc.

📦CarinaStudio.AppBase.Application.Avalonia

• Basic implementation of IApplication based-on Avalonia.Application.

📦CarinaStudio.AppBase.AutoUpdate

• Updater to perform resolving, downloading and installing flow of application.
• Use UpdatingSession as view-model of Updater to build UI for auto-update quickly.

📦CarinaStudio.AppBase.MacOS

• .NET binding to macOS framework. For ex, CFObject, CGImage, NSObject, NSView, etc.
• Allow defining and creating your own type which extends from NSObject.

📦CarinaStudio.AppBase.Tests

• Provide random functions like generating random string or creating file with random name.
• EventMonitor<T> to monitor and track event raising.
• INotifyPropertyChanged.WaitForPropertyAsync() to wait for specfic property to be given value.

📥Install to your project

AppBase has been uploaded to NuGet, you can find it on:

• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CarinaStudio.AppBase.Core/
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CarinaStudio.AppBase.Configuration/
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CarinaStudio.AppBase.Application/
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CarinaStudio.AppBase.Avalonia/
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CarinaStudio.AppBase.Application.Android/
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CarinaStudio.AppBase.Application.Avalonia/
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CarinaStudio.AppBase.AutoUpdate/
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CarinaStudio.AppBase.MacOS/
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/CarinaStudio.AppBase.Tests/

You can also install by Package Manager command:

Install-Package CarinaStudio.AppBase.Core
Install-Package CarinaStudio.AppBase.Configuration
Install-Package CarinaStudio.AppBase.Application
Install-Package CarinaStudio.AppBase.Avalonia
Install-Package CarinaStudio.AppBase.Application.Android
Install-Package CarinaStudio.AppBase.Application.Avalonia
Install-Package CarinaStudio.AppBase.AutoUpdate
Install-Package CarinaStudio.AppBase.MacOS
Install-Package CarinaStudio.AppBase.Tests

📁Source code

You can find source code on GitHub.