Native versus Web Clients
Today, the opportunities to deliver incredible user interfaces are huge. We have plenty of great technologies, many ways to do so, and the most important thing, great hardware. But the key points for a software architect are the advantages and disadvantages of each UI technology.
This chapter will discuss how you, as a software architect, are impacted due to the different kinds of UI, something that naturally will be asked by the product owners. In addition, it presents the current options we have and the future, in the form of .NET MAUI.
The main purpose of a book that is focused on software architecture is not to go deep into the details of development technology, but discuss each of them to understand the best scenario in terms of where to use them. That is why, even considering that .NET MAUI will be released as GA in the second quarter of 2022, we decided to discuss the possibilities we will have with this great change.
In this chapter, we...