What's new in MAUI

2nd November 2021

I’m compiling information for our next Adelaide .NET User Group meetup which is focusing on the launch of .NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022.

.NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) was originally announced way back in May 2020 at BUILD 2020, and then updated in a blog post in February 2021. .NET MAUI is an evolution of the increasingly popular Xamarin.Forms toolkit.

We had to wait for preview 3 before more information about MAUI was forthcoming.

Preview 3

• Windows Desktop Now Supported
• Updates to Controls and Layouts
• Semantic Properties for Accessibility

Preview 4

• BlazorWebView
• Splash Screen
• Raw Assets
• Visual Studio Productivity
• Ecosystem Readiness

Preview 5

• Animations
• UI Components
• Single Project Templates Updates

Preview 6

• Workload Installation
• Gestures
• Clipping
• Native Alerts
• Single Project and Windows

Preview 7

• New Layouts
• Accessibility Changes and Improvements
• Font Scaling

Around this time a blog post was also published highlighting previews of the Community Toolkits.

Preview 8

Coinciding with the .NET 6 Release Candidate 1 releases. This is when the announcement was made that MAUI would not be shipping in November as originally planned. MAUI will stay in preview until into 2022.

Preview 9

Coinciding with .NET 6 Release Candidate 2

• Updated Controls
• Borders, Corners, and Shadows – Oh my!
• Quick Android Startup
• Ecosystem Controls (DevExpress, Syncfusion, Telerik)