After months of hard work we finally merged it: the MediaElement for .NET MAUI!
With this control you can now play audio and video using .NET MAUI on iOS/macOS, Android, Windows and Tizen
๐คฉ Marvelous .NET MAUI is not a lie with this project! This is a fully functional app with all the amazing features you would expect from a modern day app, all built with .NET MAUI and open-sourced for you to learn from! Let's have a look ๐
Whoa! A complete ebook on .NET MAUI! 93 pages filled with all kinds of things you need to know and hands-on examples that you can start implementing right now. Get it now FOR FREE! on and definitely let me know what you think! Should we start a book club?
I just published this Learn .NET MAUI GitHub repo! I found myself scrambling for links each time when I wanted to give someone a list of resources to start with, so I decided to build a public list so anyone and everyone can benefit. Enjoy!
Today 4 years ago I joined Microsoft ๐ Woohoo!
Little did I know what was in store for me. It has been an amazing ride so far, and I'm not done yet ๐
Seem that time really does fly when you're having a blast!
Thanks to everyone who has been a part of this amazing journey ๐ซถ
Are you about to spend precious money on materials to learn .NET MAUI?! ๐ธ
โ STOP!
Here are 7 resources that will get you started with learning .NET MAUI for absolutely free! ๐งต
An official .NET MAUI extension for VS Code has just been launched. You can now develop your .NET MAUI apps with VS Code on Windows, macOS and Linux!
Check this out! ๐คฏ
Remember
@Bijington
's session at .NET Conf focus on .NET MAUI where he played his amazing drawing game with
@jamesmontemagno
all built with .NET MAUI and SignalR?
Decided to have a little fun and hook it up to a Blazor web client as well! Special guest appearance of Box Face!
Let's launch this thing! Here is the first part of the .NET MAUI Crash Course. I will post 2 parts every week and you should be able to learn .NET MAUI before it's released! In this first video I will introduce you to .NET MAUI! Have fun!
Windows App SDK 1.3 Preview 1 is out which has support for amazing backdrops. I just had to try how easy it was to use this with .NET MAUI...
Well, 2 minutes of coding and here you can see a .NET MAUI app on Windows with a DesktopAcrylicBackdrop!
It took some time but this video is the first to hit 100k views on YouTube! 100.000! ๐คฏ
And it has nothing to do with .NET MAUI ๐ It's all about dependency injection!
Maybe I should broaden my scope a little bit ๐ค, what do you think? What would you like to see?
Today I can proudly introduce to you the Microsoft.Toolkit.Xamarin.Forms package for
#XamarinForms
! In this post you will read all about this package, also known as
#XamarinCommunityToolkit
. First pre-release on
#NuGet
now, go check it out!
Has anyone been waiting for MediaElement to come to .NET MAUI by any chance? We've been working hard to get it to the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit and hoping to have a first preview for you to test soon! ๐
Looking for something to do over the weekend? How about learning some .NET MAUI?
Check out this GitHub repo where I have collected a ton of resources that all have to do with .NET MAUI.
Missing something? Please open a PR to add your own!
Big day for .NET MAUI Community Toolkit!
First, we (and by we I mean mostly
@Therenador
) added the capabilities to MediaElement to play in the background and show appropriate metadata and controls on the device lock screen!
We're happy to announce the .NET MAUI Maps control for Windows! ๐บ๏ธ
This one lives in the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit because of reasons. I've wrote it up in the v1.0 release.
Not a bad way to end the week! 1.5 MILLION views on my YouTube channel. Mind blowing ๐คฏ
Subscribe (and watch!) for content about .NET MAUI, .NET in general, maybe some ASP, Azure, C# and more!
Publishing your iOS & Android app can be such a hassle, but not anymore!
With this amazing
@code
extension it's now easier than ever to publish/archive your .NET MAUI iOS and Android app
Check it out, โญ๏ธ the repo, provide feedback or help out with PRs!
As of May 1, 2024 Apple is going to enforce their privacy manifest requirement for apps in the App Store ๐
What that all means and more importantly: how can you make the required changes in your .NET MAUI or Xamarin iOS apps?
Read it all in this blog!
.NET Conf is just around the corner and PACKED with all kinds of amazing content. But, maybe you're looking for .NET MAUI specifically?
In this post I have tracked down all sessions that have to do with .NET MAUI and put them in an overview just for you!
If you're looking for FREE controls and templates for .NET MAUI that also happen to look AMAZING, this post is for you! Check out UraniumUI โข๏ธ by
@EnisNecipoglu
It has all kinds of cool things, check this out!
๐ฃ Thread: Inspirational .NET MAUI designs for your next app project! ๐๐ฑ
Here are some great designs by my good friend
@jsuarezruiz
that you can start using for your own apps, TODAY!
The designs are existing designs from Dribbble but implemented with .NET MAUI ๐คฏ
If you're in need of a last-minute Christmas present, this might be it! ๐
This book just came out and teaches you everything there is to know about using the MVVM pattern! And as if that isn't enough, the examples being used are built with .NET MAUI.
We've just released v1.1.0 of the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit!
Besides some new features and bugfixes, we now have a Roslyn Analyzer to tell you that you didn't add the UseMauiCommunityToolkit line to your initialization. And it can add it for you! ๐คฏ
Wondering what a world looks like where .NET MAUI has fully drawn controls?
@jsuarezruiz
is working on AlohaKit. This plugin doesn't render controls as if they were platform controls, but draws controls pixel-perfect the same everywhere! Check it out:
Maybe you're just starting on your .NET MAUI journey or you are already on your way and looking for more... I have tried to capture all available resources that are out there on this GitHub repository. Courses, books, blogs, whatever you need and more!๐ค
This might be our most anticipated release yet... TouchBehavior is here! ๐๐ฑ
Previously known as TouchEffect in Xamarin, this functionality is now ported and available in the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit version 8.0
Find all the details here ๐
Iโve just published a public NuGet for the first time under the name of Microsoft ๐ฑ triple checked everything to see if I didnโt do anything stupid. But I think it went OK! More information soon... ๐ค
15k, still pretty amazed at the milestones I'm hitting with this little thing I was going to try because of the lack of in-person conferences ๐
Thanks for the support everyone and happy Sunday!
Can you do push notifications with .NET MAUI and Firebase?
You most certainly can!
@AndreasNesheim
has gone through all the hoops so you don't have to. Read here how to get started with push notifications on iOS and Android with .NET MAUI.
This just in: my YouTube channel hit 20k subscribers! Thatโs about 19.999 more than expected!
Just to give you an idea: the O2 Arena in London can hold 20k people. Thatโs insane! Maybe we should all have a party there? ๐ค
๐จ MessagingCenter has been deprecated for .NET MAUI in .NET 7 and will be removed in .NET 8 - PANIC!
๐ก The recommended replacement is WeakReferenceMessenger which is also MUCH faster!
@progalex
shows us how to swap these two solutions in this blog ๐
I almost can't believe it, but we have fullscreen support for MediaElement in the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit! ๐บ
We just released version 3.1.0 to NuGet with this major new feature and 2 bugfixes as well
Go check it out and let us know how you like it!
5 years ago today, I had the privilege to join Microsoft!
Crazy how fast that time went by, and now here we are 5 years later with a ton of new experiences and lots of new friends who happen to be also crazy cool people to work with!
On to the 10? ๐ค
Just pushed
#XamarinCommunityToolkit
1.1 over the fence! Lots of new goodies to try out: LazyView, ShadowEffect, Popups, translation things, lots of bugs fixed. Awesomeness all around basically. Also: enabled nullability so get those nulls in check!
Thatโs a big pile of using
#dotnetmaui
shirts! I think this โwho wants one?โ got a bit out of hand ๐ just in time for
#MSBuild2021
well, for me. Now I need to start sending these out ๐ฆ thanks
@msg_group
for sponsoring this!
With UraniumUI for .NET MAUI you do not only get a set of free and open-source controls, but also material design across all platforms!
That's right! Material design on iOS, Android and even Windows! But there is more...
What that is? Check it out! ๐
Not a bad start of 2023 (or 200000023? ๐)!
2m views on my videos! This has gone further than I couldโve ever imagined. Once again like to thank everyone for following and supporting me on this journey ๐
You can be part of the next 1m views too:
Yes! I've secured myself a copy of this .NET MAUI book, looking forward to going through it.
You can order your own here: (no referral, just being nice)
We can finally share it! Xamarin Community Toolkit is joining forces with Windows Community Toolkit and we'll now be CommunityToolkit.*, totally ready for .NET MAUI
Great things are coming!
Blog post with all the details is here:
Need to play some audio from your .NET MAUI app?
@Bijington
and myself have been hacking together a little plugin for that!
Based on the popular SimpleAudioPlayer for Xamarin, we have now create which allows you to play some audio with ease ๐ถ
Building .NET MAUI bits on my M1 MacBook, copy that through RDP to my Windows machine on the network with a physical Android device hooked up to it. Mirrored with the Win11 Your Phone app which doesn't only mirror but also let's me interact with it... I'm living in the year 3000
As an alternative to the well-known ZXing library for Xamarin and .NET MAUI there is also a plugin for barcode scanning with Google Vision and ML Kit! With this plugin scanning all kinds of barcodes in your .NET MAUI app is a breeze. Let me show you!
๐
#XamarinCommunityToolkit
pre3 is up now! With a logo and
#CameraView
and much more!
#CameraView
definitely still needs some work but we want that early feedback (and contributions...) from you! Check out all the new goodies here
Weโve updated Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials to target Android 13!
This way you can keep using the latest versions of your dependencies and release to the Google Play Store until May 2024 when Xamarin support ends
This is amazing! Cool trick to speed up your notication testing. I wonder it it will fail whenever you have an error in registering etc. It might not cover the full end-to-end, still cool!