Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) Alternatives

Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) reviews and mentions

• .NET MAUI Authentication on Windows: The OpenID Connect Challenge
  5 projects | dev.to | 6 May 2025

  You know, I'm not the only one surprised by this issue. If you take a look at the long threads around this issue, you can see many developers are complaining about the missing support for a very common feature such as authentication in Microsoft's own operating system!

• Deprecation of ListView in .NET MAUI
  1 project | dev.to | 29 Mar 2025

  Just a few hours ago, the .NET MAUI team announced a significant change coming in .NET 10: the ListView control and all its related cell types (TextCell, ImageCell, ViewCell, etc.) will be marked as obsolete. This decision is part of Microsoft's strategy to streamline the developer experience by focusing on a single, optimized control for displaying collections of data. Which I'm personally happy with, the less duplicated controls to maintain the better.

• MAUI is a scam
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Mar 2025
• Maui multi-platform App UI framework for mobile and desktop
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Dec 2024
• Is the Web Browser the Most Important Platform for App Development?
  6 projects | dev.to | 3 Oct 2024

  Unified Codebases: Frameworks like Uno Platform and .NET MAUI enable developers to write once and deploy across web and native platforms.

• Developers are not happy with .NET MAUI, but nobody in the team cares about it
  1 project | /r/hackernews | 27 Nov 2023
• Android predictive back support
  1 project | /r/dotnetMAUI | 25 Nov 2023

  I am migrating XF app into MAUI and writing a simple Navigation framework because Prism doesn't work well and I didn't use anything advanced anyway. So, I am surfing the code of MAUI to intercept all the back buttons, etc. I haven't found a single mention of apis related to predictive back "RegisterOnBackInvokedCallback", "OnBackInvokedDispatcher", "OnBackPressedDispatcher", "AddCallback", "android:enableOnBackInvokedCallback" Also I don't see any issue on github that would say "Support Android Predictive back". Only one kinda related https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/8680

• Group List View And Collection View are not working In .NET MAVI For IOS
  1 project | /r/dotnetMAUI | 25 Nov 2023

  Below issue is still reproducing in Maui .net7.0 version also. #10163

• .NET 8 – MAUI
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Nov 2023

  Maui is Open Source, MIT License

  https://github.com/dotnet/maui

  .NET is Open Source

  https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/open-source

  I do share your skepticism of Microsoft, but it looks like the economics and cash flow dynamics have changed drastically after the advent of the cloud.

  Microsoft is more focused on getting developers onto its ecosystem and help them with open source projects with the hope that they will use its Azure cloud services and bring in the money.

  My skepticism is a bit relaxed now and I have no qualms using .NET.

  I hope I am not wrong.

• .NET 8 – .NET Blog
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Nov 2023

  It's a bit of a hit and miss as of today. CLI, back-end and natively compiled libraries (think dll/so/dylib or even .lib/.a - you can statically link NAOT binaries into other "unmanaged" code) work best, GUI - requires more work.

  Avalonia[0] and MAUI[1] have known working templates with it, but YMMV.

  [0] https://github.com/lixinyang123/AvaloniaAOT / https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/ / honorable mention https://github.com/VincentH-Net/CSharpForMarkup

  [1] https://github.com/dotnet/maui (try out with just true in csproj - it is known to work e.g. on iOS)

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