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.NET MAUI for C# Developers
.NET MAUI for C# Developers

.NET MAUI for C# Developers: Build cross-platform mobile and desktop applications

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.NET MAUI for C# Developers

Assembling Your Tools and Creating Your First App

In this book, we’ll be building iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac applications using one common code base. Everything you need is free unless you want to build for iOS and Mac, in which case you need a Mac computer. I’m going to assume you have a Mac, but if you don’t, very little will change; you’ll just be more limited in the platforms you can deploy to.

An alternative if you don’t have a Mac

James Montemagno of Microsoft has a workaround video if you don’t have a Mac. There are severe limitations, but needs must. My personal recommendation is that if you don’t have a Mac, do your development with Android. Here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snQ1C6Cppr8.

In the coming chapters, you will see a non-trivial .NET MAUI project that we will build incrementally. Along the way, we will examine how to create the User Interface (UI) with XAML (a markup language) and C#.

MAUI Blazor

An alternative, not covered in this book, is to use MAUI Blazor, which allows you to create a cross-platform application using your Blazor skills. You can learn more about MAUI Blazor at https://bit.ly/MauiBlazor.

In the first part of the book, we will discuss the principal architecture for .NET MAUI: Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM). We will then dive into the diverse controls available for creating powerful UIs followed by a chapter dedicated to techniques for laying out these controls on the page.

We will move on to discussing the Shell navigation architecture and how you move from page to page, passing along data as needed. We’ll look at persisting data and then stop to discuss the all-important topic of testing your code.

While .NET MAUI provides a cornucopia of controls, there are times when you need something that Microsoft did not anticipate, so we’ll dedicate a chapter to creating custom controls. (Once you have a custom control, you can use it in any subsequent .NET MAUI projects you work on.)

In the final section of the book, we’ll look at consuming a REST API and creating a web frontend to the same REST API we used for the mobile and desktop applications, this time using Blazor.

In this chapter, you will learn how to get and install Visual Studio for writing the program and Git for managing and safeguarding your code. Each chapter’s final code will be in a dedicated branch, with the final product in the main branch.

In this chapter, you will find the following:

  • A description of Visual Studio, along with installation instructions
  • A description of Git, along with installation instructions
  • A description of how to create your first, out-of-the-box program, and a tour of the files in that project

App versus application

Since we will be building for iOS and Android (which refer to apps) and also Windows and Mac (which refer to applications), I’ll be using the two terms interchangeably.

Let’s get the software you need, and then set up Visual Studio.

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Key benefits

  • Extend your skills to build cross-platform native apps for iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac
  • Learn by working on a real-world project
  • Go beyond MAUI and integrate with the .NET ecosystem

Description

While UI plays a pivotal role in retaining users in a highly competitive landscape, maintaining the same UI can be tricky if you use different languages for different platforms, leading to mismatches and un-synced pages. In this book, you'll see how .NET MAUI allows you to create a real-world application that will run natively on different platforms. By building on your C# experience, you’ll further learn to create beautiful and engaging UI using XAML, architect a solid app, and discover best practices for this Microsoft platform. The book starts with the fundamentals and quickly moves on to intermediate and advanced topics on laying out your pages, navigating between them, and adding controls to gather and display data. You’ll explore the key architectural pattern of Model-View-ViewModel: and ways to leverage it. You’ll also use xUnit and NSubstitute to create robust and reliable code. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to leverage .NET MAUI and create an API for your app to interact with a web frontend to the backend data using C#.

Who is this book for?

Learning .NET MAUI is targeted squarely at C# programmers, whether or not they have experience with cross-platform or mobile applications, who wish to learn Microsoft's premier platform for building iOS, Android, Windows and Mac apps using a single C#-based solution.

What you will learn

  • Explore the fundamentals of creating .NET MAUI apps with Visual Studio
  • Understand XAML as the key tool for building your user interface
  • Obtain and display data using layout and controls
  • Discover the MVVM pattern to create robust apps
  • Acquire the skills for storing and retrieving persistent data
  • Use unit testing to ensure your app is solid and reliable

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Table of Contents

17 Chapters
Part 1 – Getting Started Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: Assembling Your Tools and Creating Your First App Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: What We Will Build: Forget Me Not Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: XAML and Fluent C# Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: MVVM and Controls Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Advanced Controls Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: Layout Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 2 – Intermediate Topics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Understanding Navigation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: Storing and Retrieving Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Unit Testing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 3 – Advanced Topics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 10: Consuming REST Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 11: Exploring Advanced Topics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Assessments Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Other Books You May Enjoy Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Franck Mar 21, 2024
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An outstanding book on .Net MAUI development, completed with .Net 8. It must be acknowledged that there are occasional oversights in the code described in the book or in the GitHub code. However, with a bit of patience and research, one can complete the project and, more importantly, learn a great deal. Thanks to the authors.
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Adam Gladstone Nov 30, 2023
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David S. Platt Apr 04, 2023
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Jesse Liberty as done an excellent job of de-mystifying MAUI. I would have really loved to have it last summer, when I had to figure everything out on my own. I plan to use it as the textbook for my class on MAUI at Harvard Extension School.
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SevernFoot Apr 15, 2023
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This is a great resource, both for an existing developer who wants to start with .NET MAUI, or for someone transitioning with prior experience of Xamarin Forms. There are plenty of code snippets and screenshots to illustrate each chapter. I definitely recommend this book if you want to become familiar with .NET MAUI.
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Andrew Stellman May 03, 2023
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I love this book! I've been working with C# and .NET for 20 years, and I've spent much of that time looking for ways to help people learn it. Throughout that whole time, Jesse Liberty has been one of the most effective writers. His past books have been foundational for people learning C#, and ".NET Maui for C# Developers" is no exception. If you're looking to ramp up on MAUI, this is a great way to do it.The book is full of projects where you build real apps to learn .NET MAUI, with screenshots and lots of explanation of how everything works. I especially love how this book gets into details that will help you become a better MAUI developer—like going into how fluent C# works with MAUI, or explaining how MVVM works.A really good example of how this book does a fantastic job giving you real-world advice is in the chapter on storing and retrieving data. It goes over the principles and gives examples. Then it actually walks you through installing SQLite, and shows you how to actually use it to store data, all in a way that's really practical and easy to follow.All in all, this is a really wonderful resource for anyone who wants to ramp up on MAUI.
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