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- Build a School Grade Sheet App with the .NET MAUI DataGrid
Syncfusion walks through building a school grade sheet application using the .NET MAUI DataGrid, demonstrating sorting, grouping, and filtering capabilities. A practical tutorial showing how to structure and interact with tabular data in a cross-platform MAUI app.
Read more - Secondary ToolbarItems in .NET MAUI 10 on iOS and macOS
Gerald Versluis shows how .NET MAUI 10 improves the rendering of secondary ToolbarItems on iOS and macOS, displaying them through a native overflow menu instead of forcing them into awkward positions. No custom handlers or platform-specific code needed.
Read more - The Road To Wordy Blob 1 of 3
Stephen Moreton-Howell begins a three-part series on building his .NET MAUI word game Wordy Blob, starting with his first app: a Plate Tectonics Viewer. It's a beginner-friendly look at drawing performance and structuring a first MAUI project.
Read more - Building a Cross-Platform Bluetooth Mesh Solution in .NET MAUI
Jorge Perales Diaz shows how to move beyond point-to-point BLE and build a self-healing, many-to-many Bluetooth Mesh network with .NET MAUI as the provisioner. The guide covers mesh concepts, a platform-agnostic service design, provisioning, group messaging, and production security.
Read more - Getting Contact Information with .NET MAUI
Leomaris Reyes explains how to read device contacts in .NET MAUI so users can pull in a name, phone, or email instead of retyping it. She covers the per-platform setup and the gotchas you'll hit on Android, iOS, and Windows.
Read more - .NET MAUI Community Toolkit Monthly Standup, June 2026
.NET Foundation 
Brandon Minnick 
Vladislav Antonyuk The June Toolkit standup announces new camera and media element releases, then unpacks popup and maps decisions currently under discussion. It is a detailed look at shipped features, migration guidance, and contributor follow-up items for upcoming releases.
Read more - 5 Heart Animations Using .NET MAUI
Leomaris Reyes builds five playful heart animations in .NET MAUI using nothing but the framework's basic animation APIs. Each one is short, reusable, and a great way to add polish to your app's interactions.
Read more - Taking Your AI to the Edge with .NET MAUI
This talk explores how to bring AI capabilities directly to mobile and edge devices using .NET MAUI, moving inference off the cloud and onto the hardware in your users' hands. A look at the tools, patterns, and trade-offs for running AI models locally in cross-platform .NET apps.
Read more - Custom Google Maps Info Window in .NET MAUI — FontAwesome Icons and Pin Detail Page
Hassan Tariq shows how to replace the default Google Maps pin callout with a fully custom info window in .NET MAUI — a styled ContentView card showing place name, address, category, star rating, and opening hours, with FontAwesome Solid icons and navigation to a detail page. Works on Android and iOS using the Onion.Maui.GoogleMaps library.
Read more - Shiny.DocumentDb v6 — Vectors, Filters & a Real Connection Pool
Allan Ritchie releases Shiny.DocumentDb v6 with vector/ANN search across six database engines, EF Core-style global query filters, composite JSON indexes, and real connection pooling for server SQL. This release takes DocumentDb from mobile-first to server-ready.
Read more - Migrating .NET MAUI from Mono and Tuning Mobile Performance
Vladislav Antonyuk digs into the architectural shift of .NET MAUI moving from the Mono runtime to CoreCLR, explaining both the performance benefits and the production problems that come with it. A practical guide covering dual-runtime targeting, GC tuning for mobile hardware, and using desktop-grade diagnostics on physical devices.
Read more - Implementing In-App Billing in .NET MAUI
Jorge Perales Diaz builds a clean, production-ready in-app billing architecture for .NET MAUI that abstracts Google Play, StoreKit, and the Microsoft Store behind one service. It covers product types, server-side receipt validation, subscriptions, restores, and the pitfalls that trip up real apps.
Read more - Give Your .NET MAUI Android Apps a Material 3 Makeover
Gerald Versluis explains how to enable Material 3 styling in .NET MAUI 10 with a single MSBuild property, covering which controls are supported today and what's coming next. One line in your .csproj transforms your Android app to use Google's latest design system.
Read more - Share Functionality in Your .NET MAUI Apps
Leomaris Reyes shows how to open the native share sheet in .NET MAUI to share text, links, and files across iOS, Android, and Windows. She also covers the security and presentation details that trip developers up.
Read more - .NET MAUI 11 Preview 4: CoreCLR, Badges, and C# in XAML
Gerald Versluis walks through all the highlights of .NET MAUI 11 Preview 4 including the runtime switch from Mono to CoreCLR, Material 3 support for Android, badge support for Shell tabs, and writing C# code directly in XAML. A comprehensive preview of what's coming next for .NET MAUI.
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