What is .NET MAUI?
We’ll start with a bit of history.
Xamarin is a software company founded in May 2011 by the engineers who created Mono, a free and open-source version of .NET Framework. Microsoft acquired the company in 2016 and it is now a vital part of the .NET development platform, providing tools and services for building native cross-platform mobile apps using C# and .NET. Xamarin’s technology allows developers to write native iOS, Android, and Windows apps using a single shared code base, making it easier to develop and maintain apps for multiple platforms.
.NET MAUI (Multi-Platform App UI) is the new framework from Microsoft, which is an evolution of Xamarin.Forms.
This is a way to create one UI, deploy it to many different platforms, and get native controls on each platform. .NET MAUI can also host Blazor, which is called Blazor Hybrid. We will not get native controls when we use Blazor Hybrid. It will render web content.
Many years ago, I...