Getting Started

Uranium UI is a UI framework for .NET MAUI. It is built on top of the .NET MAUI infrastructure and provides a set of controls and layouts to build modern UIs. It also provides infrastructure for building custom controls and themes on it.

There are 2 ways to get started with Uranium UI:

Existing Projects
New projects

New Projects

Uranium UI provides a project template to start a new project with Uranium UI. You can customize the startup project with parameters like icon library, theme, and more.

Install latest templates from NuGet:
```
dotnet new -i UraniumUI.Templates
```
Create a new project:
```
dotnet new uraniumui -n MyProject
```

Visual Studio

Also, templates has ide.host.json implementation that allows to create a new project from Visual Studio.

Parameters

icons: Defines icon library to use. Default is MaterialIcons. Available values are FontAwesome, MaterialIcons, and None.

Example: dotnet new uraniumui -n MyProject -icons FontAwesome

Existing Projects

Install the UraniumUI.Material NuGet package to your MAUI application.
```
dotnet add package UraniumUI.Material
```
Uranium UI doesn't include any theme by default. Pick one of the themes and install it. Since there is only one theme for now, you can install UraniumUI.Material directly instead of installing both UraniumUI and UraniumUI.Material.

Go to MauiProgram.cs and add UraniumUI Handlers

.ConfigureMauiHandlers(handlers =>
{
    handlers.AddUraniumUIHandlers(); // 👈 This line should be added.
});

Go to App.xaml and add ColorResource & StyleResource of Material

Define following xml namespace: xmlns:material="clr-namespace:UraniumUI.Material.Resources;assembly=UraniumUI.Material"

Then define ColorResource and StyleResource into MergedDictionaries

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8" ?>
<Application xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/dotnet/2021/maui"
            xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
            xmlns:local="clr-namespace:App1"
            xmlns:material="clr-namespace:UraniumUI.Material.Resources;assembly=UraniumUI.Material"
            x:Class="App1.App">
    <Application.Resources>
        <ResourceDictionary>
            <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
                <ResourceDictionary Source="Resources/Styles/Colors.xaml" /> 
                <!-- 👇 Define right after your local Colors.xaml. -->
                <material:ColorResource />

                <ResourceDictionary Source="Resources/Styles/Styles.xaml" />
                <!-- 👇 Define right after your local Styles.xaml -->
                <material:StyleResource />

            </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        </ResourceDictionary>
    </Application.Resources>
</Application>

(Optional) Installing a font icon library is recommended. Choose one of the icons and install it.
- FontAwesome
- Material

Themes available