Using Shell
The INavigation interface and NavigationPage offer basic navigation functionality. Relying solely on them would require us to create complex navigation mechanisms by ourselves. Fortunately, .NET MAUI provides built-in page templates to choose from, which can deliver various navigation experiences.
As shown in the class diagram in Figure 5.2, there are built-in pages available for different use cases. All these pages – TabbedPage, ContentPage, FlyoutPage, NavigationPage, and Shell – are derived classes of Page:
Figure 5.2: Class diagram of the built-in pages in .NET MAUI
ContentPage, TabbedPage, and FlyoutPage can be used to create various UIs per your requirements:
