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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

The Forget Me Not API architecture

When we looked at getting a user’s preferences in Chapter 8, we used the Preference Service. That service, until now, used a method to return hardcoded values. That, of course, was a temporary expedient so that we could focus on one thing at a time. We are ready now to interact with the online API.

Where’s the service?

I have created an online web service on Azure at https://forgetmenotapi20230113114628.azurewebsites.net/.

It is my goal to keep this up and running so that you can implement the client and get meaningful results, but given that there may be maintenance costs, by the time you read this, the service may no longer be in place. If that is true, you can still get 95% of what you need by reading the API code and using hardcoded data, as we’ve been doing up until now.

Also, note that just going to the URL won’t get you anywhere. It is when we combine that base URL with the specific task-based additions...