Overview

• Multi-platform Application User Interface.
• Generates native code for the target device.
• MAUI leverages WinUI 3 (via Windows App SDK) for Windows apps.
• Documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/
• Documentation: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/maui

Cross-Platform

• Each supported platform (iOS, Android, macOS, Windows) has its own set of APIs.
• There are also cross-platform APIs (phone dialer, device info, file system, geolocation, etc) that can be used which covers all platforms.
• .NET for iOS — AOT compilation to produce an ARM binary (.app)
• .NET for Android — JIT, AOT, Hybrid options (.apk)
• .NET for macOS — leverages Mac Catalyst
• .NET for Windows — leverages WinUI 3

Web

Blazor Hybrid (Blazor + .NET MAUI) — Share Razor components with a .NET MAUI App.

UI

In MAUI, UI’s can be created in XAML or C#.

Handlers

MAUI uses handlers to carry out UI operations: