Introduction to .NET MAUI
Overview
.NET MAUI is a cross-platform framework within the .NET ecosystem for creating native mobile and desktop applications. MAUI is built on a modern .NET runtime. It is designed to be extensible, allowing developers to customize and extend the framework to meet their needs.
.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is a cross-platform framework
for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# or XAML. Using .NET MAUI, you
can develop apps that can run on Windows, Android, iOS, macOS, from a single shared
code-base.
– Microsoft
Learning
.NET MAUI Key Features
- Unified Project Structure: .NET MAUI provides a single project structure that can target multiple platforms. This simplifies the development process as you can manage resources like images and fonts in one place.
- Multi-platform Coverage: .NET MAUI supports development for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows from a single codebase.
- Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) and Model-View-Update (MVU) Architectures: .NET MAUI supports both MVVM and MVU design patterns, allowing developers to choose the one that suits their needs best.
- Native Performance: Applications built with .NET MAUI can leverage platform-specific hardware acceleration, and are compiled for native performance.
- Modern UI Controls: .NET MAUI includes a set of common controls that are mapped to their native equivalent on each platform, ensuring a native look and feel.
- Flexible Layouts: .NET MAUI provides a flexible layout system, making it easier to design user interfaces that adapt to different screen sizes and orientations.
- Integration with .NET Ecosystem: As part of the .NET platform, .NET MAUI can take advantage of all the features of .NET like language interoperability, async programming, and more.
- Hot Reload: .NET MAUI supports Hot Reload, which allows developers to modify their code and see the changes in real time without needing to restart the application.
Instructions
- Read 📄What is .NET MAUI
- Read Release Announcement 📄The .NET MAUI extension for Visual Studio Code
- Read 📄 .NET MAUI extension documentation.
"The .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) extension gives you the tools you need to build beautiful, performant, cross-platform apps anywhere you write code. It's built on top of the C# and C# Dev Kit extensions, which supercharge your .NET development with powerful IntelliSense, an intuitive Solution Explorer, package management, and more." – .NET MAUI extension documentation
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