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- Recycled Cells with DrawnUI
Nick Kovalsky explains when and how to replace .NET MAUI's CollectionView with a drawn alternative for complex, high-performance lists using DrawnUI and SkiaSharp. The post breaks down recycled-cell mechanics through two real samples — an infinite news feed and a windowed chat list — with the XAML, C#, and gotchas to make each one scroll smoothly.
Read more - Building an AI-Powered Personal Companion App with .NET MAUI
Gerald Versluis walks through building a cross-platform, AI-powered personal companion app with .NET MAUI and modern AI services in this hour-long session. Expect practical guidance, architectural best practices, and live demos covering natural language conversations, personalized recommendations, and contextual insights across Windows, Android, iOS, and macOS.
Read more - .NET MAUI Community Standup | Skia Sharp 4.0 Release
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Matthew Leibowitz SkiaSharp 4 is here, and this .NET MAUI Community Standup explores what’s new, why it matters, and how it impacts graphics work in your MAUI apps. Matthew Leibowitz, David Ortinau, and Gerald Versluis walk through key updates and practical context for developers using SkiaSharp today.
Read more - Building a Cross-Platform WebRTC Video Calling Solution in .NET MAUI
Jorge Perales Diaz designs an enterprise-grade, cross-platform video calling stack in .NET MAUI built on WebRTC. It spans signaling with SignalR, STUN/TURN, adaptive bitrate, screen sharing, and data channels — giving you full control instead of embedding a third-party SDK.
Read more - The Install Funnel, Part 1: Make Your Icon Stand Out
Matt Goldman kicks off his Install Funnel series for MAUI UI July 2026 by asking why white app icons dominate the top of the App Store and Play Store, and what that pattern means for your app. Backed by a hand-counted survey of the top 25 apps across four store lists, he turns the observation into a practical strategy and shows how to apply it in .NET MAUI.
Read more - Replicating a Travel App in .NET MAUI
Leomaris Reyes rebuilds a polished travel app UI in .NET MAUI, breaking a Dribbble design into blocks and coding each one step by step. Follow along to sharpen your XAML layout instincts and see Telerik controls in action.
Read more - Test .NET MAUI Preview SDKs Locally with global.json sdk.paths
Gerald Versluis shows how the .NET 10 global.json sdk.paths feature lets you install a preview .NET SDK into a repo-local .dotnet/ folder, so you can try new .NET MAUI previews without touching your machine-wide setup. It's a scoped, reversible workflow — experiment in one repository, then delete the folder when you're done.
Read more - Easy Custom Navigation with Flagstone UI
Matt Goldman announces the general availability of Flagstone UI, introducing FsShell — a drop-in Shell replacement that decouples navigation logic from its visual chrome in .NET MAUI. With FsShell, you keep everything Shell gives you (routing, lifecycle, navigation state) while building your tab bar and navigation UI entirely from cross-platform XAML or C#.
Read more - SkiaSharp 4.0 Is Here: Announcing the First Stable Release
Matthew Leibowitz announces SkiaSharp 4.148.0, the first stable v4 release, with a current Skia engine, new font and image capabilities, lifecycle fixes, and substantial rendering gains. See what changed, how the new Microsoft and Uno Platform co-maintenance cadence works, and what the Graphite-powered preview brings next.
Read more - Reduce XAML Boilerplate with .NET MAUI Global/Implicit Namespaces and Source Generator
Syncfusion's Anandh Ganesan shows how two underused .NET MAUI features — global/implicit XML namespaces and the XAML source generator — can eliminate the wall of xmlns declarations from every page and move XAML parsing from runtime to build time. Small configuration changes with a noticeable impact on readability, error detection speed, and debugging clarity.
Read more - Getting Started with the Syncfusion Blazor Spreadsheet Editor
Syncfusion walks through setting up the Blazor Spreadsheet Editor from scratch — project creation, service registration, and integration — then tours key features like Excel import/export, formula support, rich cell formatting, and built-in accessibility. A solid introduction to adding production-ready spreadsheet functionality to Blazor applications.
Read more - Building a Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) Layer in .NET MAUI
Jorge Perales Diaz designs an enterprise-grade Runtime Application Self-Protection layer for .NET MAUI that lets an app monitor its own execution environment. It detects root, jailbreak, debuggers, hooking frameworks, and tampering — then responds intelligently based on a risk score.
Read more - Run Gemma 3 Locally in .NET MAUI — Offline AI, ONNX Runtime & On-Device RAG
Hassan Tariq walks through running Google's Gemma 3 model entirely on-device inside a .NET MAUI app using ONNX Runtime GenAI — no cloud APIs, no internet required. The walkthrough covers a complete offline RAG implementation including PDF ingestion, vector embeddings, semantic search, SQLite storage, and local inference.
Read more - .NET 11 Preview 5: What's Actually New for C# and MAUI Developers
Igniscor breaks down the most practical .NET 11 Preview 5 updates for production teams using C# and .NET MAUI. The post highlights C# 15 changes, SDK tooling improvements, runtime performance gains, and what MAUI developers should validate before November.
Read more - Replicating a Ticket Screen in .NET MAUI
Leomaris Reyes recreates a flight ticket UI in .NET MAUI, complete with the classic perforated ticket edges. It's a hands-on exercise in Shapes, Grids, and Border controls that levels up your custom layout skills.
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