Interested in giving Microsoft’s new Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) a try? This book provides developers with a comprehensive set of tools and hands-on coding to build their own cross-platform applications.

The book is a comprehensive end-to-end guide on creating, building, and distributing .NET MAUI applications. As you walk through each new concept, .NET MAUI expert and Microsoft MVP Shaun Lawrence will show the concept's value and uses, and then have you apply it in a build-along application. You will work with this build-along application right up until you are ready to ship it to the relevant stores (e.g., App Store, etc.).
The underlying theme through the book is to explain a key concept, show how to implement it directly in order to reinforce your understanding, and then show potential simplifications (e.g., alternative libraries) that can help you reduce the complexities of an applications code base.
What You Will Learn:
- Create a .NET MAUI application
- Apply commonly required techniques
- Apply more advanced techniques to make applications stand out
- Know what to consider when distributing applications to the relevant stores
- Take an application from concept through to production


Table of contents
About the Author xv
About the Technical Reviewer xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction xxi
Part I: Getting to Know .NET MAUI 1
Chapter 1: Introduction to .NET MAUI 3
Chapter 2: Building Our First application 19
Chapter 3: The Fundamentals of .NET MAUI 45
Chapter 4: An Architecture to Suit You 75
Part II: User Interface 109
Chapter 5: User Interface Essentials 111
Chapter 6: Creating Our Own Layout 165
Chapter 7: Accessibility 199
Chapter 8: Advanced UI Concepts 221
Part III: Behind the Scenes 257
Chapter 9: Local Data 259
Chapter 10: Remote Data 299
Chapter 11: Getting Specific 335
Chapter 12: Testing 365
Chapter 13: Lets Get Graphical 393
Part V: Finishing Our Application 407
Chapter 14: Releasing Our Application 409
Chapter 15: Conclusion 429
Index 437