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- Building an AI-Powered Personal Companion Mobile App
Recorded at NDC Copenhagen 2026, Gerald Versluis shows how to build an AI-powered personal companion app with .NET MAUI, integrating AI to create smarter, more responsive cross-platform experiences. This ~1 hour session takes you from concept to a working app so you can go home and build your own personal Jarvis.
Read more - Gerald Versluis on MAUI, Blazor Hybrid, Linux Support, and Agentic Development
On Code, Cloud & AI, Barry Luijbregts talks with Gerald Versluis about building .NET MAUI today — and how the team uses Copilot, skills, and MCP servers for agentic workflows. This ~45 minute episode also covers Blazor Hybrid, MAUI Labs Linux work, and what AI means for developer careers.
Read more - Build the Tools You Need
David Ortinau tells the story of building Foundry Forge — a native macOS .NET MAUI + Blazor Hybrid app that runs local AI models — using coding assistants and a disciplined workflow. Part of MAUI UI July 2026, it's less about 'AI wrote my code' and more about the guardrails that turn an agent from a genie into a reliable teammate.
Read more - Give Your MAUI Agent Hands — Contacts, Reminders & Location as AI Tools
Allan Ritchie shows how to move beyond a chat assistant that can only talk by wiring device services into your .NET MAUI app as AI tools. He walks through three new Shiny packages that let a model work with contacts, reminders, and location — opt-in, read-only by default, and AOT-compatible.
Read more - 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 - Adding OCR to a .NET MAUI App: Pick an Image, Read the Text, Stay Responsive
Iron Software walks through IronOCR in .NET MAUI — MediaPicker, ReadAsync off the UI thread, image downscaling, and per-platform gallery permissions. The mobile gotchas matter even if you swap OCR engines.
Read more - .NET MAUI Community Standup | Skia Sharp 4.0 Release
David Ortinau 
Gerald Versluis 
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.
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