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.NET MAUI for C# Developers

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

.NET MAUI for C# Developers

3.7 (6)
By: Jesse Liberty, Rodrigo 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

Using REST Services

Until now, all the work we’ve been doing has been local to a device (a phone, Windows, or Mac). The design of Forget Me Not entails the use of a service in the cloud that will manage all our data – invitations to a program, registration, authentication, data persistence, and so on.

A client interacts with a server through a REST API (also called a RESTful API).

An Application Program Interface (API) is a set of definitions and protocols to interact with an application. In our case, the API we care about is the cloud-based ForgetMeNot.API.

Knowing more about REST

For our purposes, that is really all you need to know about REST, but if you are curious, you can find out more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer.