Building Mobile and Desktop Apps Using .NET MAUI
This chapter is about learning how to make graphical user interface (GUI) apps by building a cross-platform mobile and desktop app for iOS and Android, macOS Catalyst, and Windows using .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI).
You will see how eXtensible Application Markup Language (XAML) makes it easy to define the user interface for a graphical app.
Cross-platform GUI development cannot be learned in a single chapter, but like web development, it is so important that I want to introduce you to some of what is possible. Think of this chapter as an introduction that will give you a taste to inspire you, and then you can learn more from a book dedicated to mobile or desktop development.
The app will allow the listing and management of customers in the Northwind database. The mobile app that you create will call an ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs web service.
Either a Windows computer with Visual Studio 2022 for Windows version 17...