FAQs
.NET MAUI is the Multi-platform App UI for building native cross-platform apps with .NET for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows. It is the evolution of Xamarin.Forms, taking its place as the .NET solution for building native cross-platform apps.
.NET MAUI is GA as of May 23rd at Microsoft Build 2022. Read the announcement for details.
Nope. .NET MAUI is available with stable Visual Studio and .NET 7.
Absolutely! You can use XAML with markup extensions, data binding, compiled bindings, visual state manager, styles, data templates, native views, and more. You can use the .NET Community Toolkit for MVVM help, or leverage a number of MVVM libraries such as Prism or FreshMVVM.
We recommend evaluating your projects dependencies today in order to determine what is available today supporting .NET 6. Once you find that your dependencies are available and you have mitigations for anything remaining, then go ahead and upgrade! As of the May 2022 release of .NET MAUI we are already seeing many libraries and services enabling support for .NET 6, and expect to see more in the months to come.
See our migration guide here.
We are unifying the .NET platform! As with all key workloads and runtimes of .NET, we are closely integrating Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials, and the Android, iOS, and macOS bindings into .NET. This is clearly illustrated by the namespace changes: Xamarin.Forms becomes Microsoft.Maui and Xamarin.Essentials becomes Microsoft.Maui.Essentials.
Yes, check out the supported platforms documentation.
.NET MAUI uses the 2009 XAML specification, the same as Xamarin.Forms.
Any code that references Xamarin namespaces or types (Xamarin.iOS) needs to be updated to target .NET 6 TFMs (target framework monikers) and recompiled. Other .NET Standard libraries will work as-is.
Yes, it leverages Multitargeting which allows you to reference platform-specific APIs in a unified .NET MAUI project
