Crashlytics in .NET MAUI with Sentry.io – A Better Alternative to Firebase 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. When it comes to monitoring crashes and errors in mobile applications, Firebase Crashlytics is often the first option developers hear about. However, Firebase can sometimes feel complicated—especially when dealing with configuration, Google services, and platform-specific setups. This is where Sentry.io shines. Sentry is lightweight, flexible, and easy to integrate with modern cross-platform frameworks like .NET MAUI . It not only captures crashes and unhandled exceptions but also provides rich context through breadcrumbs , performance monitoring, and advanced filtering. In this blog, we’ll walk step by...

Integrating AI in .NET MAUI Applications 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 – Why AI in Apps? Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a game-changer in the app development landscape. From chatbots and voice recognition to image analysis and recommendation systems, AI allows developers to create apps that are more intelligent, personalized, and responsive. Integrating AI in mobile applications can improve user engagement, automate tasks, and deliver smarter experiences. What is .NET MAUI? .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) is Microsoft’s cross-platform framework for building native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML. It is the evolution of Xamarin.Forms and allows you to write code...

🚀 React Native vs .NET MAUI Performance: A Deep Dive in 2025 Tags: #ReactNative, #DotNetMAUI, #CrossPlatform, #MobileAppDevelopment, #PerformanceComparison, #Xamarin, #FlutterAlternative, #Microsoft, #JavaScript, #CSharp 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. 👉 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 developme...

📸 MediaPicker Enhancements in .NET 10 Preview 6 for .NET MAUI – Select Multiple Files & Compress Images! .NET 10 Preview 6 brings exciting new features to .NET MAUI developers, especially around media file handling. With the latest MediaPicker enhancements , developers can now select multiple images and compress them on the fly using simple API parameters. 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. 🔍 In this blog, we’ll explore: What is MediaPicker in .NET MAUI? What’s new in .NET 10 Preview 6? How to select multiple images? How to compress selected images? Real-world usage scenarios Sample Code Reference Links 🧭 What is MediaPicker? MediaPicker is a cross-platfor...

📱 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(); ...

Flutter Falls Behind? .NET MAUI Nails Liquid Glass on iOS 26 – Here’s How Introduction Apple shook the developer world with iOS 26's new UI design system: Liquid Glass . A stunning blend of blur, translucency, and motion-responsive effects, it transforms the user interface into a living, breathing visual experience. While most cross-platform frameworks are scrambling to replicate it, .NET MAUI developers have a secret weapon: native handler access . In this blog, we’ll explore: What is Liquid Glass? Why Flutter struggles with it How .NET MAUI makes it possible Real working example of Liquid Glass UI in .NET MAUI for iOS 26 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. What is Liquid ...

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...