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Roger Ye
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Roger Ye is an embedded system programmer who has great interest in virtualization, Android, and cross-platform technologies. His professional experience includes working with major companies like Motorola, Emerson, Intel, and EPAM, where he held the position of Engineering Manager. At Motorola and Emerson, he worked on embedded system projects for mobile devices and telecommunication infrastructures. He is now an engineering manager at EPAM, working with a team to deliver digital solutions for diverse clients.
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Using Xamarin for cross-platform development

As we mentioned in the previous section, Xamarin was part of the Mono project and was an effort to support .NET on Android, iOS, and macOS. Xamarin exports the underlying operating system features to the .NET runtime. Xamarin.Forms is the cross-platform UI framework of Xamarin. .NET MAUI is an evolution of Xamarin.Forms. Before we discuss .NET MAUI and Xamarin.Forms, let us review the following diagram of Xamarin implementations on various platforms.

Figure 1.1: Xamarin implementations

Figure 1.1 shows the overall architecture of Xamarin. Xamarin allows developers to create native UIs on each platform and write business logic in C# that can be shared across platforms.

The transition from Xamarin to .NET MAUI, or more specifically from Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI, is not a revolution. .NET MAUI essentially represents a new version of Xamarin.Forms rather than other components of Xamarin. Xamarin.Android has now become...

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Published in: Mar 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781835080597

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Roger Ye

Roger Ye is an embedded system programmer who has great interest in virtualization, Android, and cross-platform technologies. His professional experience includes working with major companies like Motorola, Emerson, Intel, and EPAM, where he held the position of Engineering Manager. At Motorola and Emerson, he worked on embedded system projects for mobile devices and telecommunication infrastructures. He is now an engineering manager at EPAM, working with a team to deliver digital solutions for diverse clients.
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