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. Please, support my blog by clicking on our sponsors ad! 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...

Publishing Your App to Android and iOS Stores Publishing a mobile app on both Android and iOS platforms is an essential step in the app development lifecycle. .NET MAUI allows you to build cross-platform applications for Android and iOS, and in this blog, we will cover the detailed steps for publishing your app to both the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. 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. Please, support my blog by clicking on our sponsors ad! This blog will guide you through: How to generate an APK or AAB file for Android. How to generate an IPA file for iOS. How to use Transporter to upload your app to the App S...

📦 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. Please, support my blog by clicking on our sponsors ad! 📁 Solution Explorer: First Loo...

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. Please, support my blog by clicking on our sponsors ad! 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 ...

Applying the MVVM Pattern for Cleaner Architecture in .NET MAUI Building cross-platform apps in .NET MAUI is exciting — but if your code isn’t organized well, you’ll quickly end up with tangled spaghetti. That’s where MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) comes to the rescue. 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. Please, support my blog by clicking on our sponsors ad! In this blog, we’ll: Cover both basic and advanced MVVM implementation Write and explain a reusable BaseViewModel Learn how to use async APIs, loading indicators, and commands Help you prepare for interviews with a curated question list at the end 🎯 At the end of the blog, you'll find MVVM intervi...

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. Please, support my blog by clicking on our sponsors ad! 1. Installing Visual Studio .NET MAUI requires Visual Studio 2022 or later to develop applic...

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...

Please, support my blog by clicking on our sponsors ad! .NET MAUI 9 introduces several exciting control enhancements that boost the performance, functionality, and flexibility of cross-platform apps. This blog explores these updates in detail, providing code examples to help you integrate these features into your .NET MAUI applications. 1. BackButtonBehavior OneWay Binding Mode In previous versions of .NET MAUI, the BackButtonBehavior in a Shell app was set to BindingMode.OneTime . In .NET MAUI 9, this has been updated to BindingMode.OneWay , allowing easier control over the back button behavior at runtime. This means the button’s visibility and other properties can be dynamically updated with data bindings. Example Code: The following code demonstrates how to use data binding to control the visibility and behavior of the back button in a Shell app. <ContentPage ...> <Shell.BackButtonBehavior > <BackButton...