Publishing .NET MAUI apps

.NET MAUI is Microsoft’s technology for the creation of multi-platform applications. VS 2022 gives us tools to deploy applications to the different app stores in a simple way, in addition to providing us with ways to test the installation on local computers.

In this section, I will show you how to deploy a .NET MAUI application on the Android platform as it is the most common platform for the deployment of mobile apps.

Publishing an Android app with .NET MAUI

Once you have finished creating your .NET MAUI application, you will probably want to show it to the world through an application store.

We are going to do a test with the project called Chapter8_Code_MAUI, the link for which can be found in the Technical requirements section. Once you have opened this project, the first step is to assign a Release profile to your project, as shown in Figure 8.15:

Figure 8.15 – Switching the project to Release mode

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