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- Integrating Native Device Features in .NET MAUI with Built‑In APIs
Syncfusion walks through using .NET MAUI's built-in native device APIs for camera, file picker, geolocation, connectivity, sensors, and more — all from shared C# code. A practical guide covering permissions, platform differences, and best practices for production apps.
Read more - .NET MAUI Changes Its Engine: What It Means for Your Mobile App
Horus Software breaks down what the .NET MAUI move from Mono to CoreCLR means for teams maintaining or building mobile apps. A clear, practical explainer covering unified diagnostics, startup improvements, debugger caveats, and what to measure before migrating.
Read more - Writing Your Own Roslyn Analyzers for .NET MAUI
Jorge Perales Diaz shows how to turn your team's MAUI best practices into compile-time rules by building custom Roslyn analyzers. From enforcing MVVM naming to catching UI-thread blocking calls, this guide makes the compiler your automated architecture reviewer.
Read more - Event Sourcing and CQRS in a Mobile Client with .NET MAUI and LiteDB
Jorge Perales Diaz brings enterprise architecture to mobile, showing how CQRS and Event Sourcing power clean offline-first apps in .NET MAUI backed by LiteDB. Instead of storing just current state, you store the events that produced it — unlocking audit history, easier sync, and reactive UI.
Read more - Material 3 in .NET MAUI — One Line to Transform Your App
Gerald Versluis demonstrates how enabling Material 3 in a .NET MAUI app is as simple as adding one property to your project file. See the before and after transformation and explore the HealthProfile sample app showcasing the new design system.
Read more - .NET MAUI Moves to CoreCLR in .NET 11
David Ortinau announces that CoreCLR is now the default runtime for .NET MAUI on Android, iOS, and Mac Catalyst starting in .NET 11 Preview 4. A milestone that brings runtime unification, tiered JIT, ReadyToRun, PGO, and the path to NativeAOT to mobile apps.
Read more - How to Verify Network Connectivity in .NET MAUI
Leomaris Reyes explains how to check network connectivity in .NET MAUI using the IConnectivity API, going well beyond a simple online/offline boolean. Learn to detect connection types and react to changes in real time.
Read more - The Best MAUI Library You Don't Know: Nalu — VirtualScroll, Custom Tabbar, and More!
Gerald Versluis explores Nalu, a comprehensive .NET MAUI library offering type-safe navigation, high-performance virtualized scrolling, custom tabbars, and layout utilities. If you haven't come across Nalu yet, this video makes the case for why it deserves a spot in your toolkit.
Read more - Bringing AI On-Device: Building and Integrating TensorFlow Lite Models in .NET MAUI
Jorge Perales Diaz walks the full lifecycle of on-device ML — training a model in Python, optimizing it as TensorFlow Lite, and wiring it into .NET MAUI for real-time inference. It's the end-to-end pipeline most tutorials skip, covering the crucial integration and performance details.
Read more - Creating a Neural Network Based MAUI Mobile App - Part 2 (RunPod)
Stephen Moreton-Howell pushes past Google Colab's free-GPU limits by trying RunPod to train a more ambitious neural network for a .NET MAUI app. It's a candid, warts-and-all account of wrestling with cloud GPU environments.
Read more - .NET MAUI Community Toolkit Monthly Standup, May 2026
.NET Foundation 
Brandon Minnick 
Vladislav Antonyuk The .NET MAUI Community Toolkit team walks through the new 14.2 release, camera and status bar fixes, and current PR priorities for the month. It is a practical update on what shipped, what is in review, and where contributors can jump in next.
Read more - .NET MAUI UI July 2026
Matt Goldman announces .NET MAUI UI July 2026, the fourth year of this community-driven event where developers share blog posts and videos about .NET MAUI UI throughout July. Sign up for a date, pick a topic, and share your passion with the community.
Read more - Introducing Shiny.AiConversation — Text, Voice & Wake Word in One Service
Allan Ritchie introduces Shiny.AiConversation, a single service that wraps text chat, voice chat, hands-free wake word activation, audio feedback, and persistent chat history into one DI registration. Bring your own AI backend — OpenAI, GitHub Copilot, Azure OpenAI, or Ollama — and get a full conversational AI experience across MAUI and Blazor.
Read more - The Feedback Service — One Hook to Rule Them All
Allan Ritchie introduces IFeedbackService in Shiny Controls v1.0 — a single injectable service that every interactive control calls for haptic, TTS, sound effects, analytics, or any combination. Implement it once, and every control uses it automatically.
Read more - Building an AI-Powered Conference App with .NET's Composable AI Stack
.NET · Luis Quintanilla walks through ConferencePulse, an AI-powered conference assistant built with Microsoft.Extensions.AI, DataIngestion, VectorData, Model Context Protocol, and the Microsoft Agent Framework. The app runs live polls, answers audience questions in real time, and generates session insights.
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