.NET MAUI RC1 Brings Diagnostics and Experimental Android CoreCLR Support
.NET 10 RC1 puts .NET MAUI into go-live territory. Edin Kapić’s InfoQ write-up focuses on observability, small control polish, and the experimental Android CoreCLR option Microsoft is testing.
What you’ll learn
- Layout diagnostics — a
Microsoft.MauiActivitySource/Meterthat traces measure/arrange with Aspire and OpenTelemetry - HybridWebView lifecycle —
WebViewInitializingandWebViewInitializedevents mirroringBlazorWebView - RefreshView.IsRefreshEnabled — disable pull-to-refresh without disabling the content underneath
- Experimental CoreCLR on Android — opt in via project settings, with size and tooling caveats called out
- What’s deprecated — compressed layouts and older performance APIs giving way to the new diagnostics path
Read the full piece for screenshots of the Aspire dashboard and links to the RC1 release notes.