DragDropGridView: The Holy Grail of Grid Layouts for MAUI

If you’ve ever tried to build a reorderable grid in .NET MAUI and thought “surely there’s a built-in way to do this”… you’re not alone.

In this post, Jean-Marie Alfonsi introduces Sharpnado.Maui.DragDropGridView—a grid layout that supports drag-and-drop reordering (with LongPress or Pan), animations, header support, and auto-scrolling when you drag near the edges.

It’s also a great deep dive into the practical platform quirks you run into with gestures and ZIndex, and how the library works around them.