.NET MAUI Cookbook: Build a full-featured app swiftly with MVVM, CRUD, AI, authentication, real-time updates, and more

Build robust cross-platform apps with practical recipes covering UI best practices and performance optimization to authentication, offline data synchronization, and AI integration

Key Features
Follow step-by-step recipes with best practices for a performant UI and structured business logic
Perform essential modern tasks like integration with Web API, Google OAuth, SignalR, and AI
Check out additional sections for deep understanding, common pitfalls, and GitHub examples
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Book Description
Think about how much time you usually spend building an app in a technology you're still mastering—grasping new concepts, navigating roadblocks, and even rewriting entire modules as you learn. This book saves you that time, helping you create a modern .NET MAUI application like a pro.

The chapters address a wide range of tasks and concepts essential for real-world apps, including UI best practices and advanced tips, MVVM, dependency injection, performance, and memory profiling. Since real-world applications often go beyond frontend development, this book also explores integration with backend services for authentication, data processing, synchronization, and real-time updates. Additionally, you’ll learn to implement multiple AI integration strategies, all without any prior machine learning experience.

Mastery comes with practice, so the book is organized with step-by-step recipes, each tackling a specific task. Each recipe includes detailed explanations to help you apply what you're learning to your own unique projects.

By the end of this book, you'll have developed the skills to build high-performance, interactive cross-platform applications with .NET MAUI, saving valuable time on your future projects.

What you will learn
Discover effective techniques for creating robust, adaptive layouts
Leverage MVVM, DI, cached repository, and unit of work patterns
Integrate authentication with a self-hosted service and Google OAuth
Incorporate session management and role-based data access
Tackle real-time updates, chunked file uploads, and offline data mode
Explore AI integration strategies, from local device to cloud models
Master techniques to fortify your app with platform-specific APIs
Identify and eliminate performance and memory issues
Who this book is for
This book is for intermediate developers familiar with .NET MAUI basics, and is perfect for those looking to deepen their understanding and refine their skills for creating cross-platform applications and delivering top-quality applications. The book offers advanced techniques and practical examples for handling real-world development challenges effectively.

Table of Contents
Crafting the Page Layout
Mastering the MVVM Design Pattern
Advanced XAML and UI Techniques
Connecting to a Database and Implementing CRUD Operations
Authentication and Authorization
Real-Life Scenarios: AI, SignalR, and More
Understanding Platform-Specific APIs and Custom Handlers
Optimizing Performance