.NET MAUI State Management: From ViewModels to App Stores

State management determines what users see, how the UI reacts, and how data flows across screens. This article covers the full spectrum of approaches available in .NET MAUI and helps you decide when to use each.

What you’ll learn

• MVVM + INotifyPropertyChanged: The foundation for page-level and feature-level state with data binding
• MVU (Model-View-Update): Predictable, unidirectional state transitions for complex workflows
• Visual State Manager (VSM): Declarative visual changes without touching business logic
• Dependency Injection: Shared and app-wide state with DI-backed stores
• How to combine these patterns as complementary tools, not competing architectures