NET MAUI were also mentioned in another Reddit thread posted a few days ago titled ' Desktop development in 2022?' The poster was focused on Windows but said cross-platform would be nice. Learning Xamarin Forms should be a relatively easy cross over as Maui matures.īoth Flutter and. Same native API calls just a different UI layer.

Xamarin Forms and Maui will still be xamarin.

There's enough overlap there to justify spending time in Xamarin first.

The best thing to do now, would be to learn Xamarin Forms in preparation for MAUI.

I now use Flutter/Dart because I don't like XML much and wanted to use MVU pattern. Tried to build an app with MAUI and it is long ways until it's ready. It's what i am doing btw, have some apps accompanying a main application. I think you'll do a smart thing starting with xamarin now to prepare for maui, after all maui will be the evolution of xamarin, and currently maui is in no way suited to create a prod app with.Here are the other unedited answers, in order of publication:

(We'll give benefit of the doubt that 'manure' was a typo of 'mature,' but that's a very attitudinal typo!) And it'll still be that monstrosity that is XAML. 'Going by the history of Microsoft on the desktop and mobile, MAUI is probably still a couple of years away from being manure enough. Here's the full answer from t_go_rust_flutter:

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