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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

Buddies

If a friend or relative has the app, you can invite them to be your Buddy. Once your relationship is established in the cloud-based database, you can see your Buddy’s preferences, and they can see yours (though you cannot edit each other’s preferences).

Inviting Buddies

To invite a Buddy, you navigate, using the tabs, to the Buddy list and tap on Add Buddy, which will bring up the Share page, as shown in Figure 2.2.

Figure 2.2 – The Share page

You can now use any of the platform-specific share options, including copying the invitation. Let’s send it as an email message, as shown in Figure 2.3.

Figure 2.3 – Email invitation

The text of the invitation is canned and automatically provided, but the user can edit it at will. The magic link will be provided by the server for one-time access to the login page, to reciprocate the connection to the inviting Buddy. Note that this will not be covered...