Customizing controls
.NET MAUI controls are built on the foundation of native controls. There may be instances where we would like these native controls to exhibit customized behavior to cater to our specific needs. Additionally, there might be situations when we need to create our own controls, particularly when the desired native controls are not readily available in .NET MAUI.
In this section, we will discuss the .NET MAUI implementations of cross-platform controls and use an example to illustrate how to enhance a cross-platform control with new capabilities.
In our application, we might want to present a password entry as a secure note, rather than as a standard password entry on the details page. To improve the user experience, we aim to support Markdown text instead of plain text. As .NET MAUI currently does not provide a Markdown view control, we must create our own. We will use this scenario as an example to demonstrate how to expand the functionality of existing controls...