Getting Started with .NET MAUI
Since the release of .NET 5, Microsoft has been trying to unify different .NET implementations into one .NET release. .NET Multi-platform App UI (or .NET MAUI) is an effort to provide a unified cross-platform UI framework. We will learn how to use .NET MAUI to develop cross-platform applications in this book.
The following is what we will learn in this chapter:
- An overview of cross-platform technologies
- A comparison of cross-platform technologies (.NET, Java, and JavaScript)
- The .NET landscape and the history of Xamarin
- .NET MAUI features
- .NET MAUI Blazor apps
- A development environment setup
If you’re new to .NET development, this chapter will help you to understand the .NET landscape. For Xamarin developers, many topics in this book may sound familiar, and this chapter will give you an overview of what we will discuss in this book.