.NET MAUI

.NET MAUI equips developers with the knowledge and practical skills to build native cross-platform applications for Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS using C#, XAML, MVVM, and the .NET platform.

 

Duration  3 days – 21 hrs

 

Overview

.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is a cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML.

Using .NET MAUI, you can develop apps that can run on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows from a single shared code-base. The course also teaches you the best practices on how to use Maui in your application.

 

Objectives

• Overview of .NET MAUI and how it enables you to create multi-platform apps for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows from a shared C# codebase.
• Introduction to build native, cross-platform desktop and mobile apps with .NET!
• Basic of building your first multi-platform application in C#
• A curated list of samples, tools, and libraries that will make your .NET MAUI development life easier.
• .NET Podcast app is a sample application showcasing .NET 6, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, Azure Container Apps, Orleans, and more.
•  building the business logic of a back end that pulls down json-encoded data from a RESTful endpoint to creating a .NET MAUI app that displays that data in many different ways and fully theme the application.
• .NET MAUI and more advanced topics such as local data storage and invoking REST-based web services.
• Create a sample app which incorporates it all
• Security and best practices 
• Monitoring tools 

 

Audience

• For organizations and individuals who are looking for ways to create intuitive application using .net Maui. You are expected to be fully familiar with the C# programming language.

 

Pre- requisites 

• Prior experience of enterprise application will be helpful

• Knowledge of C# Programming and real-world C# programming experience, is assumed.

 

Course Content

 

Introduction to .NET MAUI

• What are .NET MAUI?
• Installation and setup Visual studio
• Initial Project Overview 
• Creation of the emulator
• Hello .NET MAUI
• Introduction to XAML Language and its structure and definition 

 

.NET MAUI PAGES

• Introduction
• Setting up the net maui home page
• The ContentPage type
• The NavigationPage type
• The FlyoutPage type
• The TabbedPage type

.NET MAUI Layouts

• Introduction
• StackLayout
• HorizontalStackLayout y VerticalStackLayout
• Grid
• AbsoluteLayout
• FlexLayout
• Other layouts and best practices

 

.NET MAUI Controls

• • Controls to present data
  • Controls to initiate commands
  • Controls to set values
  • Controls to edit text
  • Controls to indicate activity

• Controls to display collections

 

Exercise : Project implementing the basic concepts for the same and will be in respect with the type of project client is looking at

 

Working with External resources

• • Working with images
  • Working with fonts
  • Working with font icons

• Working with other file types

• • Working with miscellaneous files as well
  • Defining the main interface
  • Working with gradients

• Changing the background of the app dynamically

 

Data Binding Fundamentals 

• Introduction
• Creating your first Binding
• Creating a binding from XAML code
• Binding Context
• Bindings between controls
• Binding modes
• The INotifyPropertyChanged interface

 

Exercise : application incorporating all the given for the project

 

MVVM Pattern

• • Introduction
  • Creating your first ViewModel
  • Creating bindings to different controls from a ViewModel
  • Binding properties to collections
  • Value Converter – Convert
  • Value Converter – ConvertBack
  • The use of Commands in .NET MAUI
  • Passing parameters to a Command

• Implementing the INotifyPropertyChanged interface automatically

 

Navigation in .NET MAUI

• • Navigating between pages
  • Examining the pages in the navigation stack
  • Manipulating the navigation stack
  • Modal Navigation
  • Disabling the button to go to the previous page
  • Passing information between pages without ViewModels
  • Passing information between pages using ViewModels

• Customizing the NavigationBar

 

Styles

• Introduction
• Implicit Styles
• Explicit Styles
• Applying styles to derived types
• Global Styles
• Inheritance of styles
• Resource Dictionaries
• Dynamic Styles
• Style classes

 

Collection View in Detail

• ListView vs CollectionView
• Creating the project and creating the binding to the ViewModel
• Defining the appearance of the elements
• DataTemplates in Resource Dictionaries
• Choosing the row layout at runtime
• Designing the elements on offer
• Implementing the Pull to Refresh functionality
• Loading data incrementally
• Sliding menus
• Linear Listings
• Grid listings
• Header and Footer
• Selecting a single element
• Selecting multiple elements
• Assigning elements in the CollectionView from the ViewModel
• Deleting selections in the CollectionView from the ViewModel
• Showing simple messages in empty lists
• Showing customized views in empty lists
• Selecting a custom view at runtime for empty lists
• Grouping data
• Displaying grouped data
• Customizing the group footer
• Detecting Scrolling
• Scrolling to an element
• Other parameters of the ScrollTo method
• Controlling the scroll position when new elements are added
• Controlling the snap points

 

Consuming Rest Services

• • Creating the REST service for testing
  • Creating the HTTPClient object
  • Getting all the records
  • Getting a single record
  • Inserting a new record
  • Updating a record

• Deleting a record

 

.NET MAUI and Sqlite

• • What is SQLite?
  • Creating the solution and installing packages nuget
  • Configuration of the connection constants
  • Configuration of the database file path
  • Creating the Customer Model
  • Mapping a class to a table through SQLite attributes
  • Applying SQLite attributes to a C# class
  • Valid data types in SQLite
  • Always open connection or not
  • Creating a database access class
  • The CreateTable method
  • Inserting a customer
  • Selecting Customers
  • Executing SQL queries
  • Updating a customer
  • Deleting a customer
  • Controlling access to the database
  • Defining the main layout
  • Adding a new customer
  • Updating a record
  • Deleting a record
  • Methods to make queries with Lambda expressions more flexible
  • Creating repositories to work with multiple tables
  • Installing SQLite Extensions.mp4 package
  • One to One Relationships
  • Cascade Insert
  • Cascade Read.mp4
  • Cascade Delete
  • One to Many Relationship

• Many to Many Relationship

 

.NET MAUI Toolkit

• .NET MAUI Community Toolkit – Alerts
• .NET MAUI Community Toolkit – Animations
• .NET MAUI Community Toolkit – Behaviors.wav
• .NET MAUI Community Toolkit – Converters
• .NET MAUI Community Toolkit – Essentials
• .NET MAUI Community Toolkit – Extensions

 

.NET MAUI Best Practices 

• Best Practices
• Monitoring tools and devices
• Managing your Files properly
• Helpful extension
• Programming architecture
• Migrating your project to MAUI

 

NOTE: All the parts highlighted here will be covered in detail with live examples feedback is most welcome we can incorporate the things of feedback as well