Building Cross-Platform Apps with .NET MAUI: A Developer's Dream Come True

Matt Goldman is a solution architect at SSW and the author of ”.NET MAUI in Action” (Manning). In this season-opener for The Modern .NET Show, he makes the case that .NET MAUI was built for .NET developers first — you don’t need prior Android or iOS expertise to get started. The episode is a thorough introduction to the framework, covering both the conceptual foundations and the practical path to shipping real apps.

What you’ll learn

• Why .NET MAUI was designed differently from Xamarin — and what that means for pure .NET developers
• How XAML separates UI markup from logic, and why it remains the recommended starting point for building .NET MAUI UIs
• MVVM explained accessibly: where model, view, and view-model each live, and why data binding replaces event-handler plumbing
• How Blazor Hybrid works: UI rendered in a WebView while the rest of your code runs as native .NET managed code
• Sharing UI components across Blazor web apps and .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid apps using Razor Class Libraries
• Building for all four main targets — Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS — from a single code base
• The final chapter topic: shipping to the app stores via GitHub Actions CI/CD

The book builds from a “hello world” intro all the way through to an enterprise-focused project with MVVM, dependency injection, and full-stack code sharing. If you’re a .NET developer wondering where to begin with mobile and desktop, this episode is a strong starting point.