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- 5 UX Tips for .NET MAUI Developers
Leomaris Reyes shares five practical UX decisions that can make .NET MAUI apps feel faster, clearer, and more polished. It is a focused read on performance-minded UI choices that still keep accessibility and maintainability in view.
Read more - Memory Leak Hunting in .NET MAUI: Patterns, Tools, and Solutions
Jorge Perales Diaz shows how to find and fix the memory leaks that quietly degrade .NET MAUI apps over time. He catalogs the most common leak patterns, the tools to detect them, and the lifecycle practices that keep apps fast and stable.
Read more - This Free PDF Viewer for .NET MAUI Beats Every WebView Solution
Gerald Versluis explores a native PDF viewer for .NET MAUI that avoids the usual WebView tradeoffs and rendering headaches. The video shows what the control supports, why it performs better, and where it fits in real apps.
Read more - BeatTheBank — A .NET MAUI Game
Allan Ritchie shares BeatTheBank, a .NET MAUI game that serves as a showcase for building interactive, real-time applications with .NET MAUI. A fun example of what's possible beyond business apps.
Read more - Building a Real-time Audio Processing App with SKSL Shaders in .NET MAUI
Nick Kovalsky breaks down a .NET MAUI app that processes live microphone audio, detects pitch and BPM, and renders rich shader-driven visuals in real time. It is a detailed look at combining DrawnUI, SkiaCamera, SkiaSharp, and SKSL for advanced interactive UI work.
Read more - KumikoUI - A Free, Open-Source DataGrid for .NET MAUI
Michael Stonis introduces KumikoUI, a fully canvas-drawn DataGrid for .NET MAUI built with SkiaSharp. Free, MIT-licensed, and packed with features like filtering, grouping, inline editing, and frozen columns — designed to fill the gap between limited free grids and expensive suite licenses.
Read more - .NET MAUI Community Standup - March 2026
David Ortinau 
Gerald Versluis 
Allan Ritchie 
Jonathan Dick Join this .NET MAUI DemoFest standup to see Jon Dick and Allan Ritchie bring MAUI to more platforms while sharing practical AI-assisted workflows. If you want fresh ideas you can apply right away, this episode is a great place to start.
Read more - Comet — An MVU UI Toolkit Written in C#
Gerald Versluis maintains Comet, an MVU (Model-View-Update) UI toolkit for building .NET MAUI apps entirely in C#. It offers a functional, code-first alternative to XAML with declarative UI composition.
Read more - Crashes Happen. Let's Make Them Happen Less.
Michal Pobuta shares a practical .NET MAUI stability playbook focused on reducing crashes, ANRs, and repeat regressions. You’ll get a step-by-step approach for observability, triage, safer fixes, and long-term prevention.
Read more - I Built a CLI Tool to Switch .NET MAUI Versions Instantly
Switching between stable, nightly, and PR .NET MAUI builds can slow down testing and troubleshooting. Gerald introduces a CLI workflow that makes version switching a single command so you can validate fixes faster.
Read more - .NET 10: Secondary Toolbar Items for iOS and macOS in .NET MAUI
Leomaris Reyes walks through secondary toolbar items in .NET 10 for iOS and macOS, including how they behave as native overflow actions. You’ll see when to use them, how ordering and icon choices affect UX, and what to watch for when properties change at runtime.
Read more - Introducing Shiny.Music — Cross-Platform Music Library Access for .NET MAUI
Allan Ritchie introduces Shiny.Music, a DI-first library for accessing the device music library from .NET MAUI. It provides permission management, metadata queries, playback controls, and file export across Android and iOS through two clean interfaces.
Read more - Introducing Shiny.Spatial — A Dependency-Free Spatial Database and GPS Geofencing for .NET
Allan Ritchie introduces Shiny.Spatial, a spatial database engine that stores geometry in SQLite with R*Tree indexing and pure C# spatial algorithms — no SpatiaLite or NetTopologySuite required. The companion geofencing package enables monitoring thousands of polygon regions via GPS, breaking free from the 20/60 region limits on iOS and Android.
Read more - JitsiMeet-Maui: Supporting Jitsi Meet SDK in .NET MAUI
Hassan Tariq’s JitsiMeet-Maui repository demonstrates integrating the Jitsi Meet SDK into .NET MAUI through native bindings on Android and iOS. It’s a practical reference for teams tackling real-world native SDK interop in cross-platform apps.
Read more - MauiBootstrapTheme — Bootstrap CSS Theming for .NET MAUI Controls
David Ortinau brings Bootstrap CSS theming to stock .NET MAUI controls. Apply familiar Bootstrap styling to your MAUI app's built-in controls without custom renderers or handlers.
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