Connecting to a remote web API service

For me, it’s challenging to name even 10 applications on my phone that rely exclusively on local data without interacting with a server. Modern applications typically adopt a distributed architecture and frequently need to fetch data from remote services. In this recipe, we’ll leverage the infrastructure we’ve built in previous topics to efficiently work with a web API service. You’ll see how the patterns introduced earlier allow seamless switching of data retrieval logic while maintaining all other classes without modifications. This approach ensures flexibility and scalability in managing data access across different application scenarios.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we’ll fetch data from a web API service. Creating a service is beyond the scope of this .NET MAUI cookbook, so I’ve prepared a starting project with a simple web API service to get you started: https://github.com/PacktPublishing...