MicrosoftMaui

Microsoft MAUI, short for .NET Multi-platform App UI, is a cross-platform framework from Microsoft for building native client applications on Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS. It is part of the .NET ecosystem and serves as the evolution of Xamarin.Forms, enabling developers to share UI and business logic across platforms within a single project.

MAUI provides a single-project development model that maps cross-platform controls to native UI through a system of handlers rather than platform-specific renderers. Developers define UI in XAML or C# and implement shared logic in .NET, with the option to add platform-specific code when needed. It supports Blazor Hybrid, allowing developers to embed Blazor web UI inside native apps, and offers hot reload to speed up iteration during development.

Apps built with MAUI target Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS and render using the native UI of each platform: Android UI components, iOS UIKit, Windows WinUI, and macOS AppKit. The framework integrates with Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac, and provides dotnet CLI tooling to install MAUI workloads, create new projects, and package apps for distribution.

MAUI is open-source and maintained as part of the .NET platform, with its source code and project templates hosted on GitHub. As the successor to Xamarin.Forms, MAUI continues to receive updates in newer .NET releases to improve performance, tooling, and platform parity.