Prism.Avalonia provides your Avalonia apps with Prism framework support so you can navigate and perform dependency injection easier than before.
Prism.Avalonia's logic and development approach is similar to that of Prism for WPF so you can get started right away with Prism for Avalonia!
Add the DryIoc package to your project:
Install-Package Prism.DryIoc.Avalonia -Version 8.1.97
public class App : PrismApplication
{
public static bool IsSingleViewLifetime =>
Environment.GetCommandLineArgs()
.Any(a => a == "--fbdev" || a == "--drm");
public static AppBuilder BuildAvaloniaApp() =>
AppBuilder
.Configure<App>()
.UsePlatformDetect();
public override void Initialize()
{
AvaloniaXamlLoader.Load(this);
base.Initialize();
}
protected override IAvaloniaObject CreateShell()
{
if (IsSingleViewLifetime)
return Container.Resolve<MainControl>(); // For Linux Framebuffer or DRM
else
return Container.Resolve<MainWindow>();
}
protected override void ConfigureModuleCatalog(IModuleCatalog moduleCatalog)
{
// Register modules
moduleCatalog.AddModule<Module1.Module>();
moduleCatalog.AddModule<Module2.Module>();
moduleCatalog.AddModule<Module3.Module>();
}
/// <summary>Called after <seealso cref="Initialize"/>.</summary>
protected override void OnInitialized()
{
// Register initial Views to Region.
var regionManager = Container.Resolve<IRegionManager>();
regionManager.RegisterViewWithRegion(RegionNames.ContentRegion, typeof(DashboardView));
regionManager.RegisterViewWithRegion(RegionNames.SidebarRegion, typeof(SidebarView));
}
protected override void RegisterTypes(IContainerRegistry containerRegistry)
{
// Register Services
containerRegistry.Register<IRestService, RestService>();
// Views - Generic
containerRegistry.Register<MainWindow>();
// Views - Region Navigation
containerRegistry.RegisterForNavigation<DashboardView, DashboardViewModel>();
containerRegistry.RegisterForNavigation<SettingsView, SettingsViewModel>();
containerRegistry.RegisterForNavigation<SidebarView, SidebarViewModel>();
}
}
public static class Program
{
public static AppBuilder BuildAvaloniaApp() =>
AppBuilder.Configure<App>()
.UsePlatformDetect()
.With(new X11PlatformOptions
{
EnableMultiTouch = true,
UseDBusMenu = true
})
.With(new Win32PlatformOptions
{
EnableMultitouch = true,
AllowEglInitialization = true
})
.UseSkia()
.UseReactiveUI()
.UseManagedSystemDialogs();
static int Main(string[] args)
{
double GetScaling()
{
var idx = Array.IndexOf(args, "--scaling");
if (idx != 0 && args.Length > idx + 1 &&
double.TryParse(args[idx + 1], NumberStyles.Any, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, out var scaling))
return scaling;
return 1;
}
var builder = BuildAvaloniaApp();
InitializeLogging();
if (args.Contains("--fbdev"))
{
SilenceConsole();
return builder.StartLinuxFbDev(args, scaling: GetScaling());
}
else if (args.Contains("--drm"))
{
SilenceConsole();
return builder.StartLinuxDrm(args, scaling: GetScaling());
}
else
return builder.StartWithClassicDesktopLifetime(args);
}
static void SilenceConsole()
{
new Thread(() =>
{
Console.CursorVisible = false;
while (true)
Console.ReadKey(true);
})
{ IsBackground = true }.Start();
}
}
Check out Upgrade-Prism-7.2-to-8.1.md for the latest progress.