.NET 9 MAUI Preview 5: New Blazor Project Template, Android 15 Beta 2 Support | Community Feed

.NET 9 Preview 5 adds a shared Blazor Hybrid/Web template and Android platform updates for MAUI. Edin Kapić walks through the template model, performance work, and API 35 bindings.

What you’ll learn

Blazor Hybrid and Web App template — one Razor Class Library feeding both MAUI Hybrid and a Blazor Web App
Android startup — roughly 15% faster cold starts via LLVM marshalling (disabled for Blazor MAUI projects while a hang is investigated)
Android 15 Beta 2 — bindings for the advancing platform beta
Release trimming — size reductions in Release mode you can toggle in the project file

Read the full InfoQ piece for the architecture diagram and links across all five .NET 9 MAUI previews.