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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

Shell navigation

That would be all you need to know about navigation if your app was just going to have the four pages that we’re accessing by the TabBar. Of course, you’ll almost certainly have more pages than that, and you’ll want a way to navigate from one page to another.

To see navigation from one page to another without using TabBar, we’ll need another page to navigate to. Let’s create the BuddyDetailsPage, which we’ll navigate to from the Buddies page.

Once again, take the out-of-the-box page, but change Label to say Buddy Details Page:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ContentPage xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/dotnet/
  2021/maui"
     xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
         x:Class="ForgetMeNotDemo.View.BuddyDetailsPage"
     ...