Moving to .NET MAUI
With the .NET unification, Xamarin has become a part of the .NET platform, and Xamarin.Forms is integrating with .NET in the form of .NET MAUI.
.NET MAUI is a first-class .NET citizen with the namespace Microsoft.Maui.
Making the move to .NET MAUI is also an opportunity for Microsoft to redesign and rebuild Xamarin.Forms from the ground up and tackle some of the issues that have been lingering at a lower level. Compared to Xamarin.Forms, .NET MAUI uses a single project structure, supports hot reloads better and supports the MVU and Blazor development patterns.
It’s important to note that MVU is not currently available as a stable method for building apps with .NET MAUI; it has only been announced.
Figure 1.2 shows an architecture diagram of .NET MAUI; you can find it in the Microsoft documentation. From Figure 1.2, we can see that there is a common BCL for all supported operating systems. Under the BCL, there are two runtimes...
