.NET MAUI for C# Developers: Build cross-platform mobile and desktop applications

by Jesse Liberty, Rodrigo Juarez, Maddy Montaquila (Leger) (Foreword)

A practical guide to mastering C# and .NET MAUI to build native cross-platform apps with a single codebase Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook While UI plays a pivotal role in retaining users in a highly competitive landscape, maintaining the same UI can be tricky if you use different languages for different platforms, leading to mismatches and un-synced pages. In this book, you'll see how .NET MAUI allows you to create a real-world application that will run natively on different platforms. By building on your C# experience, you'll further learn to create beautiful and engaging UI using XAML, architect a solid app, and discover best practices for this Microsoft platform. The book starts with the fundamentals and quickly moves on to intermediate and advanced topics on laying out your pages, navigating between them, and adding controls to gather and display data. You'll explore the key architectural pattern of and ways to leverage it. You'll also use xUnit and NSubstitute to create robust and reliable code. By the end of this book, you'll be well-equipped to leverage .NET MAUI and create an API for your app to interact with a web frontend to the backend data using C#. Learning .NET MAUI is targeted squarely at C# programmers, whether or not they have experience with cross-platform or mobile applications, who wish to learn Microsoft's premier platform for building iOS, Android, Windows and Mac apps using a single C#-based solution.

296 pages, Paperback

Published March 31, 2023

About the author

Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen Pluralsight & LinkedIn Learning courses.

He currently works for CNH writing APIs.
He was a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS.

He has been a Microsoft MVP for 13 years.

His most recent book is Writing APIs with .NET (Packt 2024)

You can find him at https://jesseliberty.com/find-me

Reviews

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this book is a perfect guide to start your MAUI journey... it's best if you already know C#. If you already know Xamarin Forms, then it will give you the necessary knowledge to jump on MAUI's side.
The book takes you almost by the hand, starting by installing what you need and explaining what will be built during the course of the book.
It then teaches the different things you need to know to:
- Build UI (XAML and Fluent C#
- How Controls work and use them with MVVM
- How to use different Layouts
- How to navigate in your app
- How to store data and retrieve it
- How to unit test your creation
- How to use REST apis with your app
- And some more advance techniques that will push your knowledge even higher

The book is not long to read, but it also suggests some exercises and also a quiz at the end of each chapter to make sure you understood what was covered.

It really helped me make a start in MAUI and show me everything I need to make great apps
I highly recommend it if you want to learn MAUI and make great multiplaform apps