

To get started, install maui-check globally from the command line. Previously installed, all the required SDK is manual, Now, Jonathan Dick has put together a useful dotnet tool that evaluates your system and gathers as many of the required pieces as it can. This release is not "go-live" so not recommended to use on production computers or for creating production code. Visual studio 2019 early access preview version you can download from the Microsoft website. In this article, I will explain how to create the first hello world app using the MAUI application. Rather than a single solution with separate projects for each platform you’re targeting, with MAUI a single project will contain the resources needed to target specific platforms.ĭavid blog helped me to understand more about setup. The aim is to deliver a simplified project structure. Mono won’t be going anywhere yet.NET MAUI is the next generation of Xamarin Forms, intended to allow developers to build an app once in a single Visual Studio project with a single codebase, targeting any supported device. All the mobile development companies started using visual studio in both Windows and Mac, it is a great improvement after Microsoft acquired Xamarin.Įvery developer and company should be very clear, Microsoft isn’t throwing away Xamarin. Microsoft then integrated Xamarin into Visual Studio. In 2016, Xamarin was acquired by Microsoft, after that Xamarin was open source and removed payment options.

On May 16, 2011, Miguel de Icaza announced on his blog that Mono would be developed and supported by Xamarin. Let’s go back a bit in time first, the name Xamarin comes from the name of the Tamarin monkey, replacing the leading T with an X. Xamarin was released 10 years before, it has helped many developers to develop mobile apps with multi-platform with native feel but now it’s time to say goodbye to Xamarin and happily welcome.
