🚀 React Native vs .NET MAUI Performance: A Deep Dive in 2025 Tags: #ReactNative, #DotNetMAUI, #CrossPlatform, #MobileAppDevelopment, #PerformanceComparison, #Xamarin, #FlutterAlternative, #Microsoft, #JavaScript, #CSharp 👉 Want more deep-dive tutorials like this? Click here to explore my full .NET MAUI series! Join our exclusive WhatsApp group for Xamarin and .NET MAUI developers to connect with experts, share insights, and get help with your projects. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this group is the perfect place to enhance your skills and collaborate with the community. 🔍 Introduction As cross-platform mobile development gains traction, React Native and .NET MAUI have emerged as two powerful frameworks promising native-like performance and code reusability. But which one truly delivers the best performance? Let’s dive deep and find out. ⚙️ Technology Overview Feature React...

📱 Fixing Layout Overlap in .NET MAUI on Android API 35+: A Developer’s Guide Have you ever opened your beautiful .NET MAUI app on a modern Android device, only to find your layout sneaking under the status bar or navigation bar ? Join our exclusive WhatsApp group for Xamarin and .NET MAUI developers to connect with experts, share insights, and get help with your projects. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this group is the perfect place to enhance your skills and collaborate with the community. This is a common frustration—especially when targeting Android 15 (API 35) , where edge-to-edge layouts and gesture navigation are the new normal. In this post, we’ll walk through the root cause and a clean, production-grade solution using custom layout handling and AndroidX window insets —all without disrupting your cross-platform codebase. 🚨 The Problem: UI Elements Overlapping System Bars Starting from Android 10 (API 29) , Google began promoti...

🔐 Facebook Login in .NET MAUI Using WebAuthenticator: A Step-by-Step Guide Implementing Facebook login in your .NET MAUI app can greatly simplify user authentication. In this post, we’ll walk through how to integrate Facebook Login using WebAuthenticator , so you can securely sign in users on both Android and iOS. Join our exclusive WhatsApp group for Xamarin and .NET MAUI developers to connect with experts, share insights, and get help with your projects. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this group is the perfect place to enhance your skills and collaborate with the community. Estimated reading time: ⏱️ 5 minutes 🚀 Why Use WebAuthenticator? .NET MAUI provides WebAuthenticator from Microsoft.Maui.Authentication , a cross-platform API that opens a web-based login page for OAuth providers like Facebook. The benefit is: No SDK to install Secure Built-in callback handling via deep link 🛠 Step 1: Create a Facebook App Go t...

Top 5 Common .NET MAUI (.NET 9) Issues and Developer-Approved Solutions Working with .NET MAUI on .NET 9 can be exciting but challenging. Many developers face recurring issues that may not be well documented. Here are 5 common problems and their proven solutions with references for further help. Join our exclusive WhatsApp group for Xamarin and .NET MAUI developers to connect with experts, share insights, and get help with your projects. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this group is the perfect place to enhance your skills and collaborate with the community. 1. 🧩 HybridWebView JavaScript Callback Problems Issue: Calling JavaScript using InvokeJavaScriptAsync<T>() without returning a value can throw exceptions. Solution: Ensure your JavaScript functions return serialized values explicitly. JavaScript Example: function setBackground() { document.body.style.backgroundColor = getRandomHexColor(); ...

Top 10 UI Patterns in .NET MAUI You Should Know (with Examples) 💡 Mastering these patterns will not only improve your UI/UX design skills in .NET MAUI, but also help you crack real-world interviews with confidence. Join our exclusive WhatsApp group for Xamarin and .NET MAUI developers to connect with experts, share insights, and get help with your projects. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this group is the perfect place to enhance your skills and collaborate with the community. 🎯 1. Master-Detail Pattern (SplitView) Use when: You want to display a list of items and the details of a selected item side-by-side. <Grid> <CollectionView x:Name="ItemList" SelectionChanged="OnItemSelected"/> <ContentView x:Name="DetailView" /> </Grid> 📋 2. Tabbed Navigation Pattern Use when: Your app has top-level navigation items (e.g., Home, Profile, Settings). <TabbedPage xmlns="...

What is .NET MAUI and Why It’s Important .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is Microsoft’s latest and most advanced UI framework that enables developers to build cross-platform applications using a single codebase for Android , iOS , macOS , and Windows . It’s a significant evolution from Xamarin.Forms, rebuilt on top of .NET 6+ and now enhanced in .NET 9 to offer better performance, easier maintainability, and modern development patterns. Join our exclusive WhatsApp group for Xamarin and .NET MAUI developers to connect with experts, share insights, and get help with your projects. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this group is the perfect place to enhance your skills and collaborate with the community. 🧭 Why .NET MAUI? Single Project Structure One Language, One Stack Full Native Performance Hot Reload MVU and MVVM Support 🔍 Deep Dive into .NET MAUI Architecture .NET MAUI builds on top of: .NET 9 Base Cla...

📦 How the .NET MAUI Project Structure Works – A Beginner's Guide .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) is the evolution of Xamarin.Forms, designed to simplify cross-platform development by unifying Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows apps into a single project structure. Unlike Xamarin, where developers needed to juggle multiple projects per platform, .NET MAUI introduces a cleaner and more maintainable single-project approach . This blog will walk you through the entire structure of a MAUI project in detail, breaking down each part so you understand exactly what's happening under the hood. Join our exclusive WhatsApp group for Xamarin and .NET MAUI developers to connect with experts, share insights, and get help with your projects. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this group is the perfect place to enhance your skills and collaborate with the community. 📁 Solution Explorer: First Look - MyMauiApp - Dependencies - Platforms - Andro...

Advanced Guide to Renderers and Mappers in .NET MAUI .NET MAUI introduced a new architecture that replaced traditional Xamarin.Forms Renderers with Handlers and Mappers . This shift has improved performance, modularity, and customization capabilities of UI components across platforms. Join our exclusive WhatsApp group for Xamarin and .NET MAUI developers to connect with experts, share insights, and get help with your projects. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this group is the perfect place to enhance your skills and collaborate with the community. Whether you're upgrading an existing Xamarin project or starting fresh with MAUI, understanding how to use and customize handlers will give you complete control over native rendering—and help you crack real-world interview questions. In this blog, we’ll explore: The difference between Renderers and Mappers Creating reusable handler mappings Appl...

Setting Up Your Development Environment for .NET MAUI Before you start building amazing cross-platform apps with .NET MAUI, you first need to get your development environment ready. In this section, we’ll walk through the installation of Visual Studio, setting up emulators for Android and iOS, and ensuring that all necessary tools are in place. By the end of this guide, you’ll have a fully configured development environment for .NET MAUI, allowing you to write code, run apps, and test them on real devices or emulators. Join our exclusive WhatsApp group for Xamarin and .NET MAUI developers to connect with experts, share insights, and get help with your projects. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this group is the perfect place to enhance your skills and collaborate with the community. 1. Installing Visual Studio .NET MAUI requires Visual Studio 2022 or later to develop applications. Here’s how to install it: Download ...

In this blog post, we will explore how to create dynamic tab bars in a .NET MAUI application and manage different deployment environments (Development, Staging, Production) using configuration files.  A special thank you to Gowtham Nagiri for inspiring this topic! Your insights have helped shape this exploration, and I appreciate your contribution to the .NET MAUI community. This approach allows your application to adapt to different environments without changing the codebase. Let's dive into the details! Understanding the Dynamic Tab Bars Dynamic tab bars enable you to display different tabs based on the application's current environment or other configurations. For example, in a Development environment, you might want to show additional features or diagnostic tabs that aren’t present in Production. This feature is particularly useful in mobile applications, where the user experience can be customized based on the environment in which the application is runnin...