Migrating from Xamarin

In this section, we will showcase the process of migrating a Xamarin.Forms project template to .NET MAUI. It should be noted that this serves only as an example, given that there are many types of Xamarin projects. Therefore, only an example of migrating a Xamarin.Forms project to .NET MAUI is discussed in this chapter. For additional information on migrating Xamarin-native projects and other related topics, please refer to the Microsoft documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/migration/.

Though we are primarily porting the Xamarin.Forms Shell template as an example in this chapter, this new project template is crucial for our subsequent developments. To provide further context, I will briefly introduce the planned migration of PassXYZ.Vault from Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI. This will outline the challenges we’ll need to tackle in this book, which should prepare you for the challenges you may encounter when migrating your own apps...