[BUG] Microsoft.Maui.Controls.Compatibility dependency

[filipnavara]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Did you read the "Reporting a bug" section on Contributing file?

• I have read the "Reporting a bug" section on Contributing file: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#reporting-a-bug

Current Behavior

CommunityToolkit.Maui has a transitive dependency to Microsoft.Maui.Controls.Compatibility NuGet package. It means that consumers of CommunityToolkit.Maui now get the reference whether they want it or not.

Cursory test seems to show that there's very little code depending on the compatibility package (IVisualNativeElementRenderer usage in TouchBehavior.macios.cs) and Color.ToAndroid() extension method. The ToAndroid method usage can be replaced with ToPlatform extension method in the base MAUI package. Usage of IVisualNativeElementRenderer may be a bit more difficult to get rid of but probably solvable by getting rid of that compatibility kludge, using reflection, or rewriting it to detect the situation from the view hierarchy.

Expected Behavior

No dependency on Microsoft.Maui.Controls.Compatibility.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Add CommunityToolkit.Maui NuGet dependency.
2. Observe that Microsoft.Maui.Controls.Compatibility gets transitively included.

Link to public reproduction project repository

Environment

- .NET MAUI CommunityToolkit: 9.0.0
- OS: Android, iOS
- .NET MAUI: 8.0.61

Anything else?

No response

[BaY1251]

Great

[GeorgeLeithead]

@vhugogarcia @brminnick I believe that this has already been merged into main and released, and as such i think this can be closed?

[brminnick]

Thanks George! Yup - this is completed via #2006