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- Integrating Haptic Feedback in .NET MAUI
Leomaris Reyes shows how to add tactile haptic feedback to your .NET MAUI apps with just a couple of lines of code. Learn when to use short taps versus longer vibrations to make interactions feel more responsive.
Read more - AI Tools for all the App Things
Gone DotNet 
Jonathan Dick 
Allan Ritchie On Gone DotNet, Jon Dick and Allan Ritchie finish their AI-BLE Droid control and tour a batch of new AI tool integrations across Allan's Shiny libraries. See how to let AI run your app and your code.
Read more - Why We Built SimToolbox
Velocity Engineering Systems · Velocity Engineering introduces SimToolbox, a macOS menu bar app for inspecting iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS simulators. Browse app folders, inspect Info.plist and entitlements, monitor SQLite databases in real time, and track filesystem changes — all without leaving your dev flow.
Read more - .NET MAUI Community Standup | Rust, SkiaSharp Everywhere, AI/ML Live Processing
David Ortinau 
Nick Kovalsky 
Gerald Versluis Nick Kovalsky joins the standup to showcase Rust integration in .NET MAUI apps, SkiaSharp rendering across platforms, and real-time AI/ML live processing with camera feeds — pushing the boundaries of what's possible in cross-platform .NET.
Read more - Will they do it? .NET MAUI Engineering Team Live Stream
.NET 
Jakub Florkowski 
Shane Neuville Gerald Versluis The .NET MAUI engineering team goes live building an app with MauiDevFlow — an open-source toolkit that gives AI agents eyes and hands inside a running MAUI app. Jakub Florkowski, Shane Neuville, and Gerald Versluis set up MauiDevFlow from scratch, let AI agents build and modify UI, and debug in real time.
Read more - Welcome to SkiaSharp 4.0 Preview 1
David Ortinau announces SkiaSharp 4.0 Preview 1, a major upgrade bringing two and a half years of Skia engine improvements. The release also marks Uno Platform stepping up as co-maintainer alongside the .NET team, with new features including variable fonts, color font palettes, and SKPathBuilder.
Read more - DWX hakt nach: .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid – Web-Skills rein, Native-App raus
Codrina Merigo discusses .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid in this German-language DWX session, covering how to reuse web development skills to build native cross-platform mobile apps from a single codebase.
Read more - Paul Phillips Standardizes Charts Across Devices with Syncfusion MAUI
Syncfusion’s case study follows Paul Phillips of Phillips Engineer, LLC as he adopts Syncfusion Charts for his first multi-device .NET MAUI app. See how prebuilt components replaced fragmented custom charting and sped up delivery.
Read more - Using Rust Inside .NET MAUI Apps
Nick Kovalsky shows how to use Rust inside .NET MAUI apps on Android, iOS, MacCatalyst, and Windows with the RustMaui tool. The post demonstrates C# and Rust sharing a SkiaSharp canvas, with a full walkthrough from tool installation to cross-platform native library compilation.
Read more - Building Chat Applications with the .NET MAUI Chat (Conversational UI) Control
Héctor Pérez walks through Telerik's RadChat control for .NET MAUI, building a chat application that uses AI models to provide healthy eating tips. The post covers the control's architecture, message types, and integrating LLM models into a conversational UI.
Read more - Integrating Apple Wallet and Google Wallet in .NET MAUI: A Production-Grade Cross-Platform Strategy
Jorge Perales Diaz maps out a production-ready strategy for adding Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes to a .NET MAUI app. The key insight: the mobile app is just a delivery mechanism — the real work is a secure backend pass-generation and signing pipeline.
Read more - XAML Visual Designer for Building .NET MAUI Apps
Hector Perez demonstrates a XAML Visual Designer for building .NET MAUI applications. The video showcases how a visual design surface can speed up XAML UI development across platforms.
Read more - AI-Powered Navigation in Shiny MAUI Shell — Chat to Navigate, Intent to Form
Allan Ritchie introduces AI-driven navigation for Shiny MAUI Shell, where users type natural language and the app opens the right form with fields pre-filled. The source generator extends existing ShellMap and ShellProperty metadata with intent descriptions, producing just two AI tools that scale to any number of routes.
Read more - DocumentDb AI Tools — Give Your LLM a Database
Allan Ritchie introduces Shiny.DocumentDb.Extensions.AI, which generates Microsoft.Extensions.AI tool functions from your registered document types. Each type can expose up to seven operations — get, query, count, aggregate, insert, update, and delete — with full control over capabilities and field visibility.
Read more - One Contract, Three Transports — Mediator AI Tooling
Allan Ritchie shows how Shiny Mediator 6.3 turns any mediator contract with a [Description] attribute into a fully typed AI tool — with zero adapter code. The same contract can simultaneously serve as an AI tool, a typed HTTP client, and a REST endpoint.
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