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.NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development - Second Edition

By : Roger Ye
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Book Image

.NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development - Second Edition

3 (1)
By: Roger Ye

Overview of this book

An evolution of Xamarin.Forms, .NET MAUI is a cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML. Using .NET MAUI, you can develop apps that’ll run on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows from a single shared codebase. In this revised edition of .NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development you will be introduced to .NET 8 and get up to speed with app development in no time. The book begins by showing you how to develop a cross-platform application using .NET MAUI, including guidance for migrating from Xamarin.Forms. You’ll gain all the knowledge needed to create a cross-platform application for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows following an example project step by step. As you advance, you’ll integrate the latest frontend technology into your app using Blazor components, including the new Blazor Bindings feature. After this, you’ll learn how to test and deploy your apps. With new coverage on creating mock .NET MAUI components, you can develop unit tests for your application. You will additionally learn how to perform Razor component testing using bUnit. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to develop your own cross-platform applications using .NET MAUI.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1: Exploring .NET MAUI
9
Part 2: Implementing .NET MAUI Blazor
13
Part 3: Testing and Deployment
16
Other Books You May Enjoy
17
Index

Using Xamarin for cross-platform development

As we mentioned in the previous section, Xamarin was part of the Mono project and was an effort to support .NET on Android, iOS, and macOS. Xamarin exports the underlying operating system features to the .NET runtime. Xamarin.Forms is the cross-platform UI framework of Xamarin. .NET MAUI is an evolution of Xamarin.Forms. Before we discuss .NET MAUI and Xamarin.Forms, let us review the following diagram of Xamarin implementations on various platforms.

Figure 1.1: Xamarin implementations

Figure 1.1 shows the overall architecture of Xamarin. Xamarin allows developers to create native UIs on each platform and write business logic in C# that can be shared across platforms.

The transition from Xamarin to .NET MAUI, or more specifically from Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI, is not a revolution. .NET MAUI essentially represents a new version of Xamarin.Forms rather than other components of Xamarin. Xamarin.Android has now become...