Xamarin has reached End of Support

Does anyone has recent experience with Maui targeting mobile? It had a not-quite-caught-up-to-Xamarin reputation for a while, has that changed now that we're on .Net 8?

Re: Xamarin has reached End of Support

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Post by hkon » Wed, May 01, 2024, 6:41 PM UTC

waldrews wrote: post #4

Does anyone has recent experience with Maui targeting mobile? It had a not-quite-caught-up-to-Xamarin reputation for a while, has that changed now that we're on .Net 8?

It was the first ever offering from them where I could create a new project for mobile and hit f5 and it actually ran :D

Re: Xamarin has reached End of Support

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Post by TheLoafOfBread » Wed, May 01, 2024, 6:46 PM UTC

waldrews wrote: post #4

Does anyone has recent experience with Maui targeting mobile? It had a not-quite-caught-up-to-Xamarin reputation for a while, has that changed now that we're on .Net 8?

It has some obscure bugs during build process (You need to have project in C:/ if you are on Windows), but otherwise it runs fine for Windows and Android. It also runs fine on MacOS, but you need to compile on MacOS as I did not figure out how to emit PKG file on Windows. It also runs fine on XCode iOS emulator, but I don't have iOS device to test on.

In nutshell, I think that MAUI has some pains to get used to, but when you make it working on one platform, it usually works on remaining platforms as well. Only thing which I don't like is HUGE binaries it generates (60-200MB) but I guess that's a price to pay for simple deployment on multiple platforms.

Re: Xamarin has reached End of Support

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Post by pragmar » Wed, May 01, 2024, 7:00 PM UTC

waldrews wrote: post #4

Does anyone has recent experience with Maui targeting mobile? It had a not-quite-caught-up-to-Xamarin reputation for a while, has that changed now that we're on .Net 8?

I've been porting a Blazor/.net 8 project (https://interro.bot) to Maui for the past couple months. I just released Android last week, and Mac/iOS is in the pipeline. There are plenty of gotchas and I wouldn't say Maui feels mature yet, but the issues in my case are mostly on the build side. I'm optimistic though, the platform does improve with regular releases, and the end product (once through the build headaches) is solid.

Re: Xamarin has reached End of Support

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Post by glub103011 » Wed, May 01, 2024, 7:10 PM UTC

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Re: Xamarin has reached End of Support

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Post by pathartl » Wed, May 01, 2024, 8:23 PM UTC

pragmar wrote: post #7

waldrews wrote: post #4

Does anyone has recent experience with Maui targeting mobile? It had a not-quite-caught-up-to-Xamarin reputation for a while, has that changed now that we're on .Net 8?

I've been porting a Blazor/.net 8 project ( https://interro.bot ) to Maui for the past couple months. I just released Android last week, and Mac/iOS is in the pipeline. There are plenty of gotchas and I wouldn't say Maui feels mature yet, but the issues in my case are mostly on the build side. I'm optimistic though, the platform does improve with regular releases, and the end product (once through the build headaches…

Are you using Blazor Hybrid or are you going native? I've been trying to learn Avalonia and already moved away from ReactiveUI in favor of MVVM. My server application is built in Blazor, so kinda wondering how well concepts transfer over.

Re: Xamarin has reached End of Support

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Post by TrueGeek » Wed, May 01, 2024, 8:27 PM UTC

waldrews wrote: post #4

Does anyone has recent experience with Maui targeting mobile? It had a not-quite-caught-up-to-Xamarin reputation for a while, has that changed now that we're on .Net 8?

I built an iPad app for a fun little three letter government agency. It wasn't bad at all.