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.NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development - Second Edition

You're reading from  .NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835080597
Pages 496 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Roger Ye Roger Ye
Profile icon Roger Ye

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Exploring .NET MAUI
2. Getting Started with .NET MAUI 3. Building Our First .NET MAUI App 4. User Interface Design with XAML 5. Exploring MVVM and Data Binding 6. Navigation Using .NET MAUI Shell and NavigationPage 7. Software Design with Dependency Injection 8. Using Platform-Specific Features 9. Part 2: Implementing .NET MAUI Blazor
10. Introducing Blazor Hybrid App Development 11. Understanding Blazor Routing and Layout 12. Implementing Razor Components 13. Part 3: Testing and Deployment
14. Developing Unit Tests 15. Deploying and Publishing in App Stores 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Customizing controls

.NET MAUI controls are built on the foundation of native controls. There may be instances where we would like these native controls to exhibit customized behavior to cater to our specific needs. Additionally, there might be situations when we need to create our own controls, particularly when the desired native controls are not readily available in .NET MAUI.

In this section, we will discuss the .NET MAUI implementations of cross-platform controls and use an example to illustrate how to enhance a cross-platform control with new capabilities.

In our application, we might want to present a password entry as a secure note, rather than as a standard password entry on the details page. To improve the user experience, we aim to support Markdown text instead of plain text. As .NET MAUI currently does not provide a Markdown view control, we must create our own. We will use this scenario as an example to demonstrate how to expand the functionality of existing controls...

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