Is NET MAUI the future of cross platform development| ScopeTrader
Is NET MAUI the future of cross platform development| ScopeTrader
Is NET MAUI the future of cross platform development? We recently caught up with Ryan Gant from Bottle Rocket to find out. Developers can now use a unified framework supporting Android, iOS, Windows, Web, and Mac. It promises improved performance and seamless cross-platform development.
"The improvements theyβve incorporated into .NET MAUI indicate that itβs more reliable than Xamarin"
BWAHAHAHA! π€£π€£π€£ π‘π‘π‘ I don't know who this guy is, but he doesn't seem to know much about MAUI/Xamarin other than a blurb someone has given him.
I haven't looked into Maui yet, but is not more reliable than Xamarin yet?
Well, it depends how you want to look at it. The TL;DR is the number of outstanding bugs has grown.
I remember in the early MAUI days when people were commenting about there being 2000 open issues - there's now nearly 3,500 open issues. A lot of issues have been closed - there was a period where several I was waiting for got fixed - but even more new ones are getting reported as people transition from Xamarin. A lot of them aren't "reliability bugs" in the sense that it makes the app crash, but there's a whole bunch more missing functionality.
Quite frankly I'm surprised they sunsetted Xamarin as planned. All along I was thinking "there's no way that's gonna happen on that date with this amount of bugs still open", but yep, they went ahead and did it anyway. If it were up to me I'd still be using Xamarin, but I don't have that choice (hence starting up this community to try and reassemble everyone from the Xamarin forum days, and let's get to helping each other out with our bugs and workarounds - I already got 1 solution to a problem from someone here).
To give an idea of the missing functionality (which was working in Xamarin) you still can't bind to properties in your ToolbarItems, cause there's no properties there to bind to! The issue for that is now 2 years old. We were told that we can use handlers for that, but there's no documentation on how to do that (I raised an issue for that too a few weeks ago). As I said, that's not one that causes your app to crash, but you still can't do what you could do in Xamarin yet, so the ToolbarItems look out of place with the rest of your app. FlyoutMenu still has issues too.