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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

App startup and lifecycle

Lifecycle management in .NET MAUI is crucial for efficient resource management, ensuring smooth and consistent user experiences, secure application handling, and understanding and troubleshooting app behavior. It allows the application to conserve resources, appropriately saving and restoring the application’s state when it’s in the background or foreground. It provides opportunities to perform certain actions when an app goes to the background, such as saving data or pausing activities. Moreover, it provides enhanced security by managing sensitive data when apps switch to and from the active state. Hence, understanding the application lifecycle is crucial for crafting robust, efficient, and user-friendly .NET MAUI applications.

In .NET MAUI projects, app startup and lifecycle management are handled in the following two files:

  • MauiProgram.cs
  • App.xaml/App.xaml.cs

.NET Generic Host is used for app startup and configuration...