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.NET MAUI for C# Developers

By : Jesse Liberty, Juarez
3.7 (6)
Book Image

.NET MAUI for C# Developers

3.7 (6)
By: Jesse Liberty, Juarez

Overview of this book

While UI plays a pivotal role in retaining users in a highly competitive landscape, maintaining the same UI can be tricky if you use different languages for different platforms, leading to mismatches and un-synced pages. In this book, you'll see how .NET MAUI allows you to create a real-world application that will run natively on different platforms. By building on your C# experience, you’ll further learn to create beautiful and engaging UI using XAML, architect a solid app, and discover best practices for this Microsoft platform. The book starts with the fundamentals and quickly moves on to intermediate and advanced topics on laying out your pages, navigating between them, and adding controls to gather and display data. You’ll explore the key architectural pattern of Model-View-ViewModel: and ways to leverage it. You’ll also use xUnit and NSubstitute to create robust and reliable code. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to leverage .NET MAUI and create an API for your app to interact with a web frontend to the backend data using C#.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Getting Started
8
Part 2 – Intermediate Topics
12
Part 3 – Advanced Topics

Storing to a database on your device

There are a couple of contenders for storing data on your device. The most popular is SQLite, which is an open source, small, fast, and highly reliable database. It is the most used database in the world and is built into all mobile phones and most computers.

Installing SQLite

To get started, install the latest version of the sqlite-net-pcl NuGet package, as shown in Figure 8.2.

Figure 8.2 – Installing sqlite-net-pcl

Installing the correct package

There are a number of SQLite packages available on NuGet. The one you want is sqlite-net-pcl and has the author SQLite-net, as shown in Figure 8.3.

Figure 8.3 – The author should be SQLite-net

Once sqlite-net-pcl is installed, also search for sqlitepclraw.bundle_green and if it is not automatically installed, manually install SQLitePCLRaw.bundle_green, as shown in Figure 8.4.

Figure 8.4 – Installing...