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- Building a Production-Ready REST Client Layer on Top of Refit in .NET MAUI
Jorge Perales Diaz designs a reusable REST client layer that extends Refit with the resilience, observability, caching, serialization, and transfer features enterprise .NET MAUI apps need. Follow the architecture to see how a centralized networking platform can replace duplicated handler chains without giving up Refit's concise interfaces.
Read more - CoreCLR Progress and the Mono Timeline for .NET MAUI
David Ortinau shares the latest CoreCLR progress for .NET MAUI, including the accelerated retirement of the separate Mono path in .NET 11 Preview 6. Read the update for current performance expectations, diagnostics support, remaining rough edges, and a practical checklist for testing your own app.
Read more - 2026 Volume 2 .NET MAUI and Blazor Updates
Syncfusion gives a quick tour of its 2026 Volume 2 updates for .NET MAUI and Blazor, spanning AI-assisted experiences, data editing, chart creation, and visualization. Watch this ~1 minute overview to spot the new controls and workflow improvements worth exploring in the full release.
Read more - SkiaSharp for .NET
Uno Platform traces how SkiaSharp became the pixel-perfect, GPU-accelerated rendering backbone shared by .NET MAUI, WinUI 3, and Uno Platform. Read the retrospective for the technical tradeoffs behind a single cross-platform drawing API and what SkiaSharp 4.0's new co-maintenance model means for its future.
Read more - Building a Cross-Platform Credential Manager in .NET MAUI
Jorge Perales Diaz walks through designing a secure, unified credential manager in .NET MAUI that handles passwords, biometrics, passkeys, and native providers across Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS. It's an architecture-first blueprint for delivering a seamless, OS-integrated authentication experience without gluing together per-platform hacks.
Read more - Building a Seven-Segment Display Control with .NET MAUI and SkiaSharp
Sebastian Jensen builds a fully customizable seven-segment display control for .NET MAUI, drawing every retro bar by hand with SkiaSharp instead of leaning on a font. Part of .NET MAUI UI July 2026, it's a practical blueprint for turning a small visual system into a polished, reusable, theme-aware control.
Read more - Building Smarter .NET MAUI Apps? See What's New in Syncfusion 2026 Volume 2
Syncfusion's 2026 Volume 2 release lands a batch of .NET MAUI control upgrades, headlined by smarter AI AssistView features and productivity boosts across DataGrid, Charts, ListView, and TreeView. This roundup is the fastest way to see which new capabilities you can drop into your app today.
Read more - Building an AI-Powered Personal Companion Mobile App
Recorded at NDC Copenhagen 2026, Gerald Versluis shows how to build an AI-powered personal companion app with .NET MAUI, integrating AI to create smarter, more responsive cross-platform experiences. This ~1 hour session takes you from concept to a working app so you can go home and build your own personal Jarvis.
Read more - Build the Tools You Need
David Ortinau tells the story of building Foundry Forge — a native macOS .NET MAUI + Blazor Hybrid app that runs local AI models — using coding assistants and a disciplined workflow. Part of MAUI UI July 2026, it's less about 'AI wrote my code' and more about the guardrails that turn an agent from a genie into a reliable teammate.
Read more - Give Your MAUI Agent Hands — Contacts, Reminders & Location as AI Tools
Allan Ritchie shows how to move beyond a chat assistant that can only talk by wiring device services into your .NET MAUI app as AI tools. He walks through three new Shiny packages that let a model work with contacts, reminders, and location — opt-in, read-only by default, and AOT-compatible.
Read more - Recycled Cells with DrawnUI
Nick Kovalsky explains when and how to replace .NET MAUI's CollectionView with a drawn alternative for complex, high-performance lists using DrawnUI and SkiaSharp. The post breaks down recycled-cell mechanics through two real samples — an infinite news feed and a windowed chat list — with the XAML, C#, and gotchas to make each one scroll smoothly.
Read more - Building an AI-Powered Personal Companion App with .NET MAUI
Gerald Versluis walks through building a cross-platform, AI-powered personal companion app with .NET MAUI and modern AI services in this hour-long session. Expect practical guidance, architectural best practices, and live demos covering natural language conversations, personalized recommendations, and contextual insights across Windows, Android, iOS, and macOS.
Read more - .NET MAUI Community Standup | Skia Sharp 4.0 Release
David Ortinau 
Gerald Versluis 
Matthew Leibowitz SkiaSharp 4 is here, and this .NET MAUI Community Standup explores what’s new, why it matters, and how it impacts graphics work in your MAUI apps. Matthew Leibowitz, David Ortinau, and Gerald Versluis walk through key updates and practical context for developers using SkiaSharp today.
Read more - Building a Cross-Platform WebRTC Video Calling Solution in .NET MAUI
Jorge Perales Diaz designs an enterprise-grade, cross-platform video calling stack in .NET MAUI built on WebRTC. It spans signaling with SignalR, STUN/TURN, adaptive bitrate, screen sharing, and data channels — giving you full control instead of embedding a third-party SDK.
Read more - The Install Funnel, Part 1: Make Your Icon Stand Out
Matt Goldman kicks off his Install Funnel series for MAUI UI July 2026 by asking why white app icons dominate the top of the App Store and Play Store, and what that pattern means for your app. Backed by a hand-counted survey of the top 25 apps across four store lists, he turns the observation into a practical strategy and shows how to apply it in .NET MAUI.
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