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v5.3.0: BadgeCounter, Popups and AppTheme helpers!

Contributors

@cat0363 @cucumber-sp @brminnick Vladislav Antonyuk Dan Siegel @BretJohnson @kperdlich Gerald Versluis @BruceTheBrick Pedro Jesus @niksedk

This release is so full of great new stuff I almost don’t know where to begin… Let’s start with something else then, did you know that we have a Discord server now specifically for the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit? A great place to discuss how to get started with contributing, ask questions or just hang out! Join it today by clicking here (only valid for 30 days after this is posted).

Now, for this release… VERSION FIVE-THREE-OH 💥

Popups Now Better Than Ever!

Thanks to a great number of community contributions our Popups are now better than ever. Thank you so much @cat0363, @cucumber-sp and our very own @brminnick! We’ve fixed a number of bugs that have to do with sizing, positioning and propagating the BindingContext to Popups, and also added a CloseAsync() method to make closing the popup more reliable.

If you want to know all ins and outs of the Popup, check our documentation.

BadgeCounter

With our brand new BadgeCounter API it’s now easier than ever to show a notification count on your app icon. You know the little red bubble over app icons on the device home screen? You can now set that value yourself, from your app with one line of code. 🤯

Vladislav Antonyuk did an amazing job once again. Read all about the implementation of this functionality on his blog or check out our official documentation on how to use it with .NET MAUI Community Toolkit.

AppThemeColor, AppThemeObject and AppThemeResource

These new APIs are great little helpers for when you support dark theme in your .NET MAUI apps. In .NET MAUI you have the AppThemeBinding which is already great, but with this you can now make your XAML less verbose and reuse your app theme aware resources through styles and resource dictionaries.

As always, find the details in our documentation and let us know how you like it!

Thank you Dan Siegel for the initial work on the .NET MAUI repo!

All the details

Humpty-Bumpty 🐫 & Other Housekeeping

New Contributors

A very, very big thank you to all of our contributors new and existing, we could not do this without you 👏 virtual stroopwafels for all of you!

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/compare/5.2.0…5.3.0

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