{"id":40109,"date":"2022-05-23T12:30:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T19:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/?p=40109"},"modified":"2022-06-15T10:30:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T17:30:51","slug":"introducing-dotnet-maui-one-codebase-many-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/introducing-dotnet-maui-one-codebase-many-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing .NET MAUI – One Codebase, Many Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to .NET Multi-platform App UI<\/a>. This release marks a new milestone in our multi-year journey<\/a> to unify the .NET platform. Now you and over 5 million other .NET developers have a first-class, cross-platform UI stack targeting Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows to complement the .NET toolchain (SDK) and base class library (BCL). You can build anything with .NET.<\/p>\n

Join us at Microsoft Build 2022<\/a> where we\u2019ll give you a tour of all the updates for building native apps for any device with .NET and Visual Studio. \u00bb Learn more<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is just the beginning of our journey to create a desktop and mobile app experience that delights .NET developers. For the next phase, the foundation is now established for the broader .NET ecosystem to bring plugins, libraries, and services from .NET Framework and the old project system to .NET 6 and SDK style projects. Among those available today are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\"syncfusion<\/a><\/td>\n\"telerik<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"DevExpress<\/a><\/td>\n\"grial<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<\/thead>\n\n\n
AndroidX<\/a>\nAlohaKit<\/a>\nCommunityToolkit.MVVM<\/a>\nCommunityToolkit.Maui<\/a>\nCommunityToolkit MauiCompat<\/a>\nCommunityToolkit Markup.MauiCompat<\/a>\nDevExpress<\/a>\nFacebook<\/a>\nFreshMvvm.Maui<\/a><\/td>\nGoogle APIs for iOS<\/a>\nGoogle Play Services Client Libraries<\/a>\nGrialKit<\/a>\nMauiAnimation<\/a>\nMicrosoft.Maui.Graphics<\/a>\nMR.Gestures<\/a>\nPrism.Maui<\/a>\nPlugin.Fingerprint<\/a>\nPlugin.InAppBilling<\/a><\/td>\nPlugin.StoreReview<\/a>\nPlugin.ValidationRules<\/a>\nReactiveUI.Maui<\/a>\nShiny<\/a>\nSkiaSharp<\/a>\nSyncfusion<\/a>\nTelerik UI for .NET MAUI<\/a>\nTemplateUI<\/a>\nUser Dialogs<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For help moving libraries to .NET 6, check out the recent guest blog posts detailing experiences shipping .NET MAUI libraries from Michael Rumpler<\/a> (MR.Gestures) and Luis Matos<\/a> (Plugin.ValidationRules).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The .NET MAUI workload is fully supported under the Current release schedule<\/a> of 18 months, and will be serviced at the same monthly cadence as .NET. Our ongoing focus for .NET MAUI continues to be quality, resolving known issues<\/a> and prioritizing issues based on your feedback. This also includes the workloads we ship for building applications that exclusively target Android, Android Wear, CarPlay, iOS, macOS, and tvOS directly using the native toolkits from .NET, and the supporting libraries AndroidX, Facebook, Firebase, Google Play Services, and SkiaSharp.<\/p>\n

With .NET MAUI you can achieve no-compromise user experiences while sharing more code than ever before. .NET MAUI uses native UI via the premier app toolkits provided by each platform, modern developer productivity, and our fastest mobile platform yet.<\/p>\n

Native UI, No Compromise<\/h2>\n

The primary goal of .NET MAUI is to enable you to deliver the best app experience as designed specially by each platform (Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and Tizen thanks to collaboration with Samsung), while enabling you to craft consistent brand experiences through rich styling and graphics. Out of the box, each platform looks and behaves the way it should without any additional widgets or styling required to mimic. For example, .NET MAUI on Windows is backed by WinUI 3<\/a> the premier native UI component that ships with the Windows App SDK<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"app<\/a><\/p>\n

Use C# and XAML to build your apps from a rich toolkit of more than 40 controls, layouts, and pages. Upon the Xamarin shoulders of mobile controls, .NET MAUI adds support for multi-window desktop applications, menu bars, and new animation capabilities<\/a>, borders, corners, shadows, graphics, and more. Oh, and the new BlazorWebView<\/code> which I\u2019ll highlight below.<\/p>\n

\"Image<\/a><\/p>\n

Read more in the .NET MAUI documentation about controls: pages, layouts, and views<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Accessibility First<\/h3>\n

One major advantage of using native UI is the inherited accessibility support that we can build upon with semantic services to make it easier than ever to create highly accessible applications. We have worked closely with customers to redesign how we develop for accessibility. From these conversations we have designed .NET MAUI semantic services<\/a> for controlling:<\/p>\n