Issue 356 18th July 2022

KYM PHILLPOTTS

G'day everyone, welcome to issue #356 of Weekly Xamarin - a wrap-up of the community articles around Xamarin and MAUI communities.

In this issue there are some great blogs from the MAUI UI July series. People are also creating great guidance in regard to CI/CD for all the various MUAI Platforms.

Also don't forget to keep an eye out for the .NET Conf "Focus on MAUI" event which is heading up in a couple of weeks.

Hope you have a code-worthy week,

Kym

PERFORMANCE

CollectionView performance: it's your own damn fault.

4 Rules to live by with CollectionView

Xamarin.Forms/MAUI CollectionView performance issue: it's your own damn fault. by Jean-Marie Alfonsi

DEVOPS

Setting up CI for your .NET MAUI Windows app

Andreas continues looking at CI solutions for all the MAUI platforms. This time he looks at setting up continuous integration (CI) for your .NET MAUI Windows app in Azure DevOps

Setting up CI for your .NET MAUI Windows app in Azure DevOps - Andreas Nesheim by Andreas Nesheim

MAUI

.NET MAUI in Space - Part 1

The first part of a fantastic UI Challenge by Naweed Akram where he looks at creating an onboarding page with animations

.NET MAUI in Space - Part 1 by Naweed Akram

.NET MAUI in Space - Part 2

The second part of the fantastic Space app reconstruction by Naweed Akram.

.NET MAUI in Space - Part 2 by Naweed Akram

Binding Lottie (or any other Swift framework with UI) in MAUI

This post covers creating bindings to Swift Frameworks in MAUI.

Binding Lottie (or any other Swift framework with UI) in MAUI by Csaba Huszár

Creating a TreeView control in .NET MAUI

This post covers creating a hierarchical and expandable tree view in .NET MAUI.

Creating a TreeView control in .NET MAUI by Luis Beltran

Catering to Desktop & Mobile with .NET MAUI

.NET MAUI enables developers to target both desktop & mobile from a single codebase, but with varying user experiences. But how do you customize the layout based on the platform?

Catering to Desktop & Mobile with .NET MAUI by Sam Basu

Combining Lottie Animations with Gestures and Scrolling

Learn how to add Lottie animations to your .NET MAUI App and combine them with gestures and scrollable containers.

Combining Lottie Animations with Gestures and Scrolling by Flavio Goncalves

Discord UI in .NET MAUI

Let's take a look at making a mockup of Discord's UI in .NET MAUI

Discord UI in .NET MAUI by Tylah Kapa

.NET MAUI Progressing From a Default Project Part 5 - Restyling From Scratch

Charles continues taking the default app template through its paces, this time looking at styles. Make sure to check out all the others blog posts in this series as well.

.NET MAUI Progressing From a Default Project Part 5 - Restyling From Scratch by Charles Flatt

Replicating Pet Adoption UI in .NET MAUI

Leomaris replicates a Pet Adoption UI obtained from Dribble for .NET MAUI UI July.

Replicating Pet Adoption UI in .NET MAUI by Leomaris Reyes

Customizing Controls in .NET MAUI

This post discusses the possibilities for customizing a control in .NET MAUI and some dragons that you may found in the way.

Customizing Controls in .NET MAUI by Pedro Jesus

MAUI UI July - Replicating F1TV app

For .NET MAUI UI July, Andreas Nesheim decided to replicate the F1TV App

MAUI UI July - Replicating F1TV app - Andreas Nesheim by Andreas Nesheim

Make the IServiceProvider of your MAUI application accessible with the MVVM CommunityToolkit

This post shows you how you can make the default IServiceProvider of your MAUI application accessible via the MVVM CommunityToolkit's Ioc.Default implementation.

Make the IServiceProvider of your MAUI application accessible with the MVVM CommunityToolkit by Marco Siccardi

How to use Secure storage with .Net MAUI

Secure storage allows you to store data encrypted with a unique device key to encrypt and decrypt the data stored.

How to use Secure storage with .Net MAUI by Suthahar Jegatheesan

Refit with .NET MAUI

This article shows how to consume API endpoints in .NET MAUI using Refit and Prism.

Refit with .NET MAUI by Steven Checo

MAUI Beach - Updating to .NET MAUI GA

Dave updates his .NET MAUI playground app from Preview 11 to the GA version. A lot has changed, he explains his process and issues he ran into.

MAUI Beach - Updating to .NET MAUI GA by Dave Murray

The new SyncFusion .NET MAUI Maps Control

The .NET MAUI Maps control is a powerful data visualization component that displays statistical information for a geographical area.

The new SyncFusion .NET MAUI Maps Control by Sheik Syed

Sands of MAUI: Issue #64

Sam covers the weekly news in MAUI.

Sands of MAUI: Issue #64 by Sam Basu

SECURITY

Add Authentication to .NET MAUI Apps with Auth0

Learn how to authenticate users of your .NET MAUI application using OpenID Connect and Auth0.

Add Authentication to .NET MAUI Apps with Auth0 by Andrea Chiarelli

PODCASTS & VIDEOS

Ways to create controls in .NET MAUI

This session at .NET MAUI Developer Day in GCR 2022 covers alternate ways to create controls in MAUI as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each.

[.NET MAUI Developer Day in GCR 2022] Ways to create controls in .NET MAUI by Javier Suárez

.NET MAUI CollectionView Grouping: Show Groups of Data

Showing groups of data can easily be done with the CollectionView in .NET MAUI. But it helps if someone shows you how to do it the first time. That's exactly what we'll do in this video! I will walk you through setting up a CollectionView with ItemTemplate, a template for the header and setting up grouping.

.NET MAUI CollectionView Grouping: Show Groups of Data by Gerald Versluis

Getting Started with .NET MAUI and SignalR: Real-Time Chat App

SignalR is a great way to enable real-time connections between server and clients. Also for .NET MAUI! In this video we will learn how to get started with .NET MAUI and SignalR by creating a very simple chat app.

Getting Started with .NET MAUI and SignalR: Real-Time Chat App by Gerald Versluis

MVVMS... A Better MVVM? Model-View-ViewModel-Services Explained

If you are a C# and XAML developer you probably know about MVVM, but have you ever heard of MVVMS? It is the architecture pattern I have used in every application I have ever built since my first job at Canon years upon years ago! It is a simple but effective way of structing your code and going beyond MVVM to decouple logic into small services. This makes code more re-usable and testable. I break it all down!

MVVMS... A Better MVVM? Model-View-ViewModel-Services Explained by James Montemagno

Singleton vs Transient - What's the Difference in .NET Dependency Injection?

Singleton... Transient... When should you use what when building client apps and web apps with .NET? Registering your dependencies correctly has import implications when it comes to lifecycle events and how you users will interact with your application. I break down what you need to know.

Singleton vs Transient - What's the Difference in .NET Dependency Injection? by James Montemagno

Image Button C#

Get started with using the Image Button using C# and Community Toolkit.

Image Button C# by Xamarin Guy

Error Monitoring for .NET MAUI with Sentry

James is joined by Matt Johnson-Pint from Sentry to show off their brand new error monitoring solution for .NET MAUI! Sentry for .NET MAUI give developers actionable insights to solve errors in their app. With just a few lines of code you are ready to go and Matt walks us through the entire setup and takes a look at the output to help diagnose issues.

Error Monitoring for .NET MAUI with Sentry by dotNet Youtube Channel