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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

Layout

In the previous two chapters, we looked at controls – the widgets that ask for and display data – but widgets need to be positioned on the page, with a process called the layout. Layout is the difference between an ugly app and a professional-looking one.

There are several layout controls available to you, which we will cover in this chapter:

  • Vertical and horizontal stack layouts
  • Grid
  • Scrolling
  • Flex layout

I am not a designer

For a page to look professional, a designer must work with the developer, specifying not only where to put the controls but also the font size, font, margins, and so on. I am not a designer, and the pages we’ll create are for illustration purposes only; they will not be pretty.