.NET MAUI Community Toolkit Adds .NET 9, Offline Speech Recognition
Versions 10 and 11 of the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit landed around the .NET 9 wave. Edin Kapić’s InfoQ piece explains the breaking changes and the offline speech recognition addition.
What you’ll learn
- .NET 9 alignment — toolkit 10 drops .NET 8 and expects current SDK/Xcode tooling
- Behaviour BindingContext change — behaviours no longer inherit parent context automatically; set it explicitly when sharing via styles
- Offline speech recognition —
IOfflineSpeechToText/OfflineSpeechToText.Defaultfor on-device STT - Why versions jump — how breaking changes drive major bumps across the toolkit’s fast release cadence
Read the full article for registration snippets and links to the release notes on GitHub.