.NET MAUI enables you to develop applications that can run on iOS, macOS, Android, and Windows, all from a single shared codebase. It is an advancement over Xamarin.Forms, which now includes UI controls redesigned and optimized for better performance and scalability.

.NET MAUI comes equipped with XAML hot reload, which updates your application UI as you modify your XAML code without you needing to recompile. Similarly, it also supports .NET hot reload, which applies your C# code changes to your running application without recompiling the whole thing.

.NET MAUI architectural overview
.NET MAUI offers a write-once, run-anywhere experience, while still letting you access native, platform-specific APIs. Under the hood, .NET MAUI uses platform-specific frameworks for creating apps on different target devices:

.NET for Android → Android devices
Windows UI 3 (WinUI 3) → Windows devices
.NET for iOS → iOS devices
.NET for macOS → macOS devices

.NET MAUI vs. Flutter vs. React Native
While there are many cross-platform frameworks, Flutter and React Native are the most popular, used by developers across the globe.

If we compare these on the basis of community size and third-party library compatibility .NET MAUI is a less mature option, released in May 2022. Therefore, it can be challenging to get help from the community if you get stuck somewhere. Additionally, Visual Studio for Mac can be a little buggy and less performant than on Windows OS.

.NET MAUI mainly uses C# and XAML code, so if you’re already familiar with the .NET ecosystem, then MAUI can easily become your go-to framework. On the other hand, Flutter uses Dart, which is a programming language introduced by Google that has a significantly higher learning curve. Finally, we have React Native; developed by Facebook and built on top of JavaScript, React Native is a cross-platform application development framework.

Although all of these frameworks can deploy to Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows, some require extra tweaking to do so, like React Native, which uses react-native-windows and react-native-macos for Windows and macOS support. On the other hand, .NET MAUI comes with support for these out of the box.

However, unlike Flutter and React Native, you can’t deploy .NET MAUI apps directly on the web. As an added bonus for Flutter, Flutter apps can also be distributed and run on Linux based operating systems. Ultimately, it’s up to you to decide which framework is the best fit. But if you need a .NET ecosystem, .NET MAUI can surely be your framework of choice.

Creating a New .NET MAUI Project

install .NET MAUI Environment steps

MainPage.xaml.cs

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private void OnCounterClicked(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
count++;

if (count == 1)
CounterBtn.Text = $"Clicked {count} time";
else
CounterBtn.Text = $"Clicked {count} times";

SemanticScreenReader.Announce(CounterBtn.Text);
}

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