You're reading from The MVVM Pattern in .NET MAUI The definitive guide to essential patterns, best practices, and techniques for cross-platform app development

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805125006

Length 386 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Pieter Nijs

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Key Concepts and Components

2. Chapter 1: What Is the MVVM Design Pattern? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: What is .NET MAUI?

4. Chapter 3: Data Binding Building Blocks in .NET MAUI

5. Chapter 4: Data Binding in .NET MAUI

6. Chapter 5: Community Toolkits

7. Chapter 6: Working with Collections

8. Part 2: Building a .NET MAUI App Using MVVM

9. Chapter 7: Dependency Injection, Services, and Messaging

10. Chapter 8: Navigation in MVVM

11. Chapter 9: Handling User Input and Validation

12. Chapter 10: Working with Remote Data

13. Part 3: Mastering MVVM Development

14. Chapter 11: Creating MVVM-Friendly Controls

15. Chapter 12: Localization with MVVM

16. Chapter 13: Unit Testing

17. Chapter 14: Troubleshooting and Debugging Tips

18. Index

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How does it work?

So now that we have a good understanding of .NET MAUI, you might wonder how this actually works. How does this .NET code eventually end up as a native app with a native UI on different platforms? It’s not magic, but to understand how it works, we need to take a look under the hood.

Native apps with .NET

At compile time, native apps for each selected platform are being created. The necessary parts of the .NET Base Class Library (BCL), which contains the .NET datatypes, interfaces, and libraries, are embedded in the native app and tailored to the target platform. The BCL relies on the .NET runtime to create an execution environment for your application code. For Android, iOS, and macOS platforms, the Mono runtime serves as the .NET runtime implementation that powers the execution environment. Meanwhile, on Windows, .NET CoreCLR is responsible for providing the runtime environment for your application.

This mechanism isn’t specific to .NET MAUI...