Realm-dotnet: Add UWP support

[bmunkholm]

Which platforms are most required to support?

• Upvote this comment for Mobile
• Upvote this comment for for Surface/tablets and PC
• Upvote this comment for the remaining targets (HoloLens, IoT, Devices, XBox)
  

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Core ref: https://github.com/realm/realm-core/issues/2059

[AndyDentFree]

I think UWP with Xamarin Forms is the logical because if people are writing cross-platform apps this gives them their portable UI on a Surface series tablet, to start with. So that what they call the _Desktop_ device family, maybe followed by the _Mobile_ one. Taking my nomenclature from the MS overview

[JonathanADaley]

I'm definitely interested in Realm for UWP, specifically so it could be used within a native Windows 10 app, across the Desktop/PC, Mobile & Xbox device families; and maybe even HoloLens.

[adamhill]

+1

[balazsgerlei]

It would be awesome to use Realm in UWP Windows 10 Apps! I hope you'll add support soon! And given the new Xamarin support I assume it would not be that complicated.

[corcav]

Please add UWP support.

[donniefitz2]

UWP would be great and would be in line with the Xamarin cross platform goal (particularly with Xamarin.Forms).

[AlexBream]

Please add UWP support!

[DevEddy]

Confirm. UWP support would be awesome.

[kristiandupont]

Please upvote this comment if you are primarily interested in UWP for Mobile

[kristiandupont]

Please upvote this comment if you are primarily interested in UWP for Surface/tablets and PC

[kristiandupont]

Please upvote this comment if you are primarily interested in the remaining targets (HoloLens, IoT, Devices, XBox)

[JonathanADaley]

While HoloLens and Xbox would be really cool, I think in the near term it'll be more commercially viable for more developers if Tablet/Surface/PC is the primary target. Mid to long term, HoloLens could be very important.

[rockfordlhotka]

Seems like a nice data storage option, but not useful for me until it works on UWP and WP8.1 - we're using Xamarin to build an iOS/Android/UWP/WP8.1 app - want to reach all the people.

[tommy7600]

+1

[escamoteur]

Same for me without UWP it does not make sense

[pablopioli]

If UWP is supported I'm in!

[mtycholaz]

+1

[delfinof]

+1

[cmcginty84]

+1 for UWP!

[jantielens]

👍 or better +37 :)

[Stoffe]

+1 for UWP here too!!!!

[MihaMarkic]

UWP

[bernabei]

UWP++

[bitdisaster]

UWP Please!!!

[joaoBeno]

+1

Edit: What are the challenges for this to happen? I mean, by supporting Xamarin, UWP should be easy, right?

[ShotiQ]

UWP please please <3 <3

[soycabanillas]

+1

[AndyDentFree]

@joaoBeno

What are the challenges for this to happen?

Realm has a common C++ core which is compiled for each platform. The C# product is an extremely thin layer on top of this core, mapping data access directly through to the core objects (which is why we use Fody to weave in these accessors). It also implements LINQ querying to use the core engine's query capabilities.

So, the challenge for the device platforms we don't yet support is building core for them, plus a little bit of work to setup test and deployment. That's why we have the individual comments above we'd like you to upvote to determine which device platforms we should prioritise.

[joaoBeno]

@AndyDentFree Thanks for the quick reply! I asked mostly to understand and see if I could help with something... Seems that an upvote is all I can do for now... :D

[dilipgandham]

Please support UWP and Windows Phone platforms too.....

[MihaMarkic]

If one writes a .net cross platform solution for mobile it is most likely that it has to support Android, iOS and UWP these days. So, it one isn't covered by realm, then realm can't be used with other two as well.

[BlueVirusX]

+1

[ShotiQ]

[phone] :3

[ncarandini]

Please add UWP support!

[Xamtastic]

I'd love to use Realm but I'm committed to only using technologies that support all three of iOS, Android, and UWP, I'll be watching this space with the hope of being able to use it when UWP support arrives!

[adrianchifor]

+1

[thdouk]

+1

[csnazell]

Echoing some of the earlier comments lack of UWP automatically rules out my use of Realm. When UWP becomes a supported platform I'll be interested to take it for a spin.

[crapitan]

+1

[MiddleTommy]

+1 for UWP Support

[JOELJOSEPHCHALAKUDY]

+1 for UWP Support

[Jorgo78]

+1 Please add UWP support please please

[GiancarloLelli]

+1

[lasthulk]

+2

[AnasMostefaoui]

UWP support would be great

[simor52]

+1 for UWP

[ciani]

+1 for UWP

[fileman]

+1 UWP

[SamuelLioult]

+1 for UWP. It seems to be logical with the support of Xamarin...

[JagadeswariGandham]

+1

[VamsikrishnaBoggavarapu]

+1 for UWP

[ravi1015]

+1 for UWP

[ravirajpaidisetti]

+1 for UWP

[BharatiGorantla]

+1

[SulochanaYelamanchili]

+1 for UWP

[soydachi]

Lets start supporting UWP! First step with xamarin is done! :)

[MongkonEiadon]

Can't wait for UWP

[vaspop]

Would love some uwp support!

[vb2ae]

I would love UWP support

[support3ds]

Please add UWP support!

[ryandary]

+1

[escamoteur]

Anything new on this topic? I'm pondering of replacing akavache with Realm, but without UWP it does not really make sense

[jurby]

+1 for UWP!

[lyzerk]

+1

[raznet]

+1

[j-hayes]

+1

[AuroraDysis]

+1

[cbartonnh]

+1

[SemyonTenforce]

+1

[worstenbrood]

+1

[fr0gs]

+1

[baguadev]

+1

[isaevdan]

+1

[wdlb]

+1 for UWP

[vobrechkov]

+1 for UWP

[nuseaki]

+1 for UWP

[shaynevanasperen]

+1 for UWP

[foppenm]

+1 for UWP

[Anil86]

When is UWP for PC going to be supported? Please share the roadmap.

+1 for UWP PC

[feliciafaye]

+1 for UWP

[wfrank2509]

+1 for UWP

[orschaef]

+1 for UWP

[thaberkern]

+1 4 UWP

[validvoid]

+1 for UWP

[hvining]

+1 UWP!!!!!

[md1986]

Come on guys don't leave us hanging! +1 4 UWP

[orospakr]

I'll note that today's OSS release of Core should now allow for a community-contributed UWP port. Cheers :)

[AndyDentFree]

@orospakr Yes!
See the open Windows issues and particularly realm/realm-core#2059

[cmcginty84]

Any updates on this? Need any alpha testers?!

[Ali-Syed]

We wanted to implement Realm but can't in our application, as realm doesn't support UWP.

[EmmanVazz]

+1 for UWP

[justinimel]

UWP support would be awesome!!

[atultiwari]

+1 for UWP.
any ETA for UWP support?

[kristiandupont]

Sorry, we can't give any specifics yet. We will post any updates in this issue.

[ajmmurray]

I note that there are now 200+ MILLION devices running Windows 10. So UWP and WP support is strongly necessary.

[mdeme]

+1 for UWP.

We'd love to use realm in our project but can't as it is Xamarin Android, iOS and UWP.

[mcortecchia]

+1 for uwp

[imrepapp]

+1 for uwp

[uneasiersubset]

+1 UWP seriously! win8.1 would be fine too. anything that can get realm+xamarin forms running on windows. uwp makes the most sense i think.

[bmunkholm]

We heard you all loud and clear and are actively working on adding support for UWP. Thanks for all the feedback!
While we would love to make promises about timelines for feature releases, we generally try to avoid that so we don't disappoint you too much in case we need to shuffle priorities. All we can say is that the main blocker - adding support in realm-core - will be completed just before xmas. I'm hopeful we can get a release out before Feb, but as priorities can change there is no promises :-)
Hope this at least gives you some hints to not be in the dark to much longer.

Should there be anyone interested in doing some beta testing, we would love to hear from you!

[ncarandini]

I'd like to be a beta tester! :-)

[iWeaverMan]

+1 for UWP

[rringham]

+1 for UWP as well - would also love to help beta test

[PolywickStudio]

Can you contact me for the beta test?

[ncarandini]

Hi,
Thanks for inviting me.

Nicolò Carandini

Inviato da iPhone

Il giorno 26 gen 2017, alle ore 08:47, Polywick Studio [e-mail] ha scritto:

Can you contact me for the beta test?

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[greglaurent]

+1 for UWP -- I want to use this for a Xamarin.Forms project, but require UWP. Are there dates for this feature?

[nirinchev]

We don't have exact dates that we can commit to, but it is high priority in our backlog and we have already started work on it. You can check the uwp milestone for a high level overview of what needs to be done and our progress towards it.

[Steviey]

Other Windows versions like Win 7 / 8 etc. still have a bigger market share then Win 10 (UWP).
Official support for Win 7 will last until 2020.

So currently, if I want to be really cross platform (incl. all Windows-Desktops and other OS-Desktops), and have a decent local client db, the is no alternative to SQLite (one code base).

[nirinchev]

You'd be happy to learn that support for desktop windows is very close to being released. So if you'd like to use Realm for (e.g.) WPF applications, you'll be able to do that. In terms of other OS-Desktops, do you refer to native development (e.g. Obj C for macOS) or using Mono?

[Steviey]

@nirinchev
Sorry, I was in the wrong thread and left Xamarin-tech months ago :-).
Just found the realm.js-repo.

[Zhuinden]

@nirinchev according to HERE you seem to have released it, is there any sample application and documentation that shows how to use Realm for UWP?

[nirinchev]

We released Windows Desktop (i.e. WPF/Console app) support. We're actively working on UWP and hope to have an alpha release in several weeks.

[ncarandini]

Waiting for the UWP one ;-)
Nicolò.

Da: Nikola Irinchev [mailto:[email protected]]
Inviato: venerdì 17 febbraio 2017 14:21
A: realm/realm-dotnet [e-mail]
Cc: Nicolò Carandini [e-mail]; Comment [e-mail]
Oggetto: Re: [realm/realm-dotnet] Add UWP support (#509)

We released Windows Desktop (i.e. WPF/Console app) support. We're actively working on UWP and hope to have an alpha release in several weeks.

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[sergi10]

+1

[tommy7600]

+1

[kipters]

+1

[atultiwari]

+1 for UWP.
Sir, any rough estimate, when will UWP support be added or any way to track its progress?
Thanks.

[nirinchev]

We're making solid progress toward UWP. We'll be shipping .NET standard soon and next target would be packaging everything for UWP. While we can't give concrete dates, we're very optimistic about landing it by mid 2017.

[hadoan]

+1

[JohnCido]

+1

[sorochan]

+1 UWP and Windows Phone 8

[HobDev]

Any updates on realm uwp support

[nirinchev]

We're happy to announce that this has shipped with version 1.3.0.

[Zhuinden]

https://news.realm.io/news/realm-mobile-database-for-universal-windows-platform/

[Amor-Fairouz]

no sample project here in this case ? i'm trying to get just the instance in the UWP and it's not working (realm 1.4 )

[fealebenpae]

hey @Amor-Fairouz, please open a new issue and attach as much information as possible - code snippets, targeted devices, exception messages (don't forget to check the inner exception, if any).

[Amor-Fairouz]

@fealebenpae done #1410