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Michael Cummings

Daniel Hindrikes

Johan Karlsson

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Defining native applications

The term native application means different things to different people. For some people, it refers to an app that is developed using the tools specified by the creator of the platform, such as an app developed for iOS with Objective-C or Swift, an Android app developed with Java or Kotlin, or a Windows app developed with C/C++ or the .NET Framework. Others use the term native application to refer to apps that are compiled into machine code that is native to the platform architecture, for example, x86, x64, or ARM. In this book, we will define a native application as one that has a native UI, performance, and API access. The following list explains these three concepts in greater detail:

Native UI: Apps built with .NET MAUI use the standard controls for each platform. This means, for example, that an iOS app built with .NET MAUI will look and behave as an iOS user would expect and an Android app built with .NET MAUI will look and behave as an Android user would expect.
Native performance: Apps built with .NET MAUI are compiled for native performance, meaning that they execute at nearly the same levels as apps built with the tools designed for the platform, that is, Java or Swift, and can use platform-specific hardware acceleration.
Native API access: Native API access means that apps built with .NET MAUI can use everything that the target platforms and devices offer to developers. For example, .NET MAUI applications can use hardware-specific features such as the camera or maps.

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Authors (3)

Michael Cummings

Michael Cummings is a Senior Development Engineer with Microsoft. He currently works on the Visual Studio tooling for building WPF, Xamarin.Forms, and .NET MAUI apps. He has experience as a developer and architect with concentrations in app development, design, deployment, and business process as it relates to technology. Michael has been a graphics and game programmer since the days of the TI99-4/A. He started the Boston XNA Developers Group. He has contributed to many open-source projects, including AXIOM, a .NET/Mono 3D rendering engine, and Planeshift, a 3D MMORPG. Michael also has experience with native game and graphics development (C++/DirectX) on Windows. Michael lives in Lexington, MA with his wife and their dog. When not working with technology he enjoys watching movies, trying out new recipes, and the occasional game of full-contact racquetball.
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Daniel Hindrikes

Daniel Hindrikes is a developer and architect with a passion for developing mobile apps powered by the cloud. Daniel fell in love with Xamarin in the early days of Xamarin when he realized that he could use C# even for iOS and Android apps, and that he could share code with the Windows apps he was also building. But Daniel started to build mobile apps long before that, working on Android apps with Java and even Java ME apps (a long, long time ago). Daniel enjoys sharing his knowledge and can be found speaking at conferences, blogging, or recording the podcast, The Code Behind. Daniel works at the company tretton37 in Sweden and has experience working with both local and global customers.
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Johan Karlsson

Johan Karlsson has been working with Xamarin since the days of MonoTouch and Mono for Android, and it all started with writing a game. He is a full-stack developer, currently focusing on mobile applications using Xamarin, but has in the past worked a lot with ASP.NET MVC, Visual Basic.NET (not proud), and C# in general. Also, he's created a whole bunch of databases in SQL Server over the years. Johan works at tretton37 in Sweden and has about 20 years' experience in the trade of assembling ones and zeros.
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