Xamarin VS xamarin-macios

You can migrate your app to .NET 6 or .NET 7 for Android now - https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/wiki/Migrating-Xamarin.Android-Applications-to-.NET-6

My grad learned basic Android dev in like a week, and proceeded to smash it out better and faster than the original. Jetpack Compose is fantastic and simply unavailable in Xamarin.

Xamarin.Android: Licencia MIT

I read that Broadcast Receiver is no longer guarenteed to trigger on exact times. Which doesn't really matter for my purpose, but seemed to me to be an indication that this wasn't quite what I was looking for.

You can build it yourself or download a package from https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android.

MAUI on Android uses: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android

Google updated their .xml file in a way our code couldn't handle: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/issues/6965

Xamarin.ios y Xamarin.Mac: Licencia MIT.

Try to build the project for Android and iOS respectively. If you suffered from the iOS build issue Error MT4109: Failed to compile the generated registrar code caused by Xcode 14, you can visit https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/issues/15954 to find the solution. The issue can be fixed by installing xamarin.ios-16.0.0.72.pkg. To run the app on iOS 16, turn on Settings > Privacy & Security > Developer Mode.

See this for more info.

There is nothing planned. Downgrade immediately https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/issues/15954

MAUI on iOS and MacCatalyst use: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios

You can see in old issues like this how uncertain even the core team was about it. It's not really tenable to fly that blind.

I think they're still doing tooling updates for Xamarin for a while. For one, there are platforms that for now aren't (yet) moving to .NET 6 at all, such as watchOS. And second, they seem to have changed their Apple platforms tooling to basically dual-target Mono (for Xamarin) and .NET 6 (for MAUI).

Microsoft decided not to support the Apple Watch in .NET 6 (https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/issues/8955), which made me uncertain as to its future on the Apple Watch - I was also interested in learning Swift and SwiftUI.