Building Our First .NET MAUI App

In this chapter, we will create a new .NET MAUI project and make the necessary changes so that we can use it in the subsequent development. The app that we will develop is a password manager app. We will add features to it gradually in the coming chapters. When we complete Part 1, we will have a functional password manager app. In this chapter, we will create the app using the Visual Studio template, and initialize the resources of the application. After that, we will build and test it on supported platforms. To use Shell in our app, we will create a new Xamarin.Forms project with Shell support and then migrate it to our .NET MAUI project.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• Setting up a new .NET MAUI project
• App startup and lifecycle management
• Configuring resources
• Creating a new Xamarin.Forms project with Shell
• Migrating this Xamarin.Forms project to .NET MAUI