Juan Sturla, Author at XABLU https://www.xablu.com/author/j-sturlaxablu-com/ We build Ventures, Products and Teams Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:08:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.xablu.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/xablu-favicon-100x100.png Juan Sturla, Author at XABLU https://www.xablu.com/author/j-sturlaxablu-com/ 32 32 Xablu Team participates in the Monkey Conf https://www.xablu.com/2021/12/03/xablu-team-participates-in-the-monkey-conf/ Fri, 03 Dec 2021 14:59:23 +0000 https://www.xablu.com/?p=15434 This week, on the first day of December, it was the fourth edition of Monkey Conf. Monkey Conf is a .NET related event, the biggest held in Spain. This edition […]

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This week, on the first day of December, it was the fourth edition of Monkey Conf.

Monkey Conf is a .NET related event, the biggest held in Spain. This edition and the one from the year before were online conferences because of the pandemic situation.
While this might sound as a downside, it was a great opportunity for them to go global, allowing not only viewers from all around the world but also speakers.

The talks

Even though the event is oriented to .NET, all the talks were about mobile: Xamarin and .NET MAUI.

After the event’s Keynote, our fellow Sebastián Pérez was the first speaker.

He talked about what you need to know to get started with .NET MAUI: from how Xamarin became .NET MAUI, what tools to use or if you should wait until it’s release and more!

You can watch his talk in the video below:

But Sebastián was not the only one of our team who participated in the event, I was there too for the second talk.
Mine was about writing platform-specific code for your .NET MAUI applications. In this session you will learn what it is, why should you use it and different ways of implementing it with some code samples.

You can watch my talk in the video below:

There were other talks by great speakers, make sure to check them out!

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There is a little voice that is growing louder and it’s saying: “.NET MAUI”. We may have heard of it, but what is this? What does it mean?

Previously, we talked about Xamarin.Forms 5, but there is a new open-source framework on the way: .NET MAUI. It stands for .NET Multi-platform App UI and it is coming to step up and replace Xamarin.Forms. 

So, what will .NET MAUI bring us?

  • Multi-platform: One project to code them all
With MAUI you can write the functionality of your application in C#, design your UI using XAML and then compile it to run on iOS, Android, macOS and Windows! You might have to write some specific code for each platform to unlock the full potential of all of the API that is available on the device, but you can write that in C# as well (you don’t have to worry about learning Swift or Kotlin). With MAUI.Essentials, you can have access to some platform features, like the Accelerometer, Geolocation, Vibrationand more, all from the shared codebase! No native implementation required: MAUI.Essentials has got you covered.
 

 

  • 🔥 HOT RELOAD! 🔥
.NET MAUI comes with a long waited feature: Hot reload. This means that you can modify how your application looks or behaves, and see the changes immediately. Forget about rebuilding! This will allow developers to build applications faster and save a lot of time from being wasted on waiting between debug sessions.
 
  • Handlers
This is a new concept introduced with .NET MAUI. Handlers are attached to UI Controls: developers can create a single, basic Handler and use it with different types of Controls or they can create more specific ones with complex functionality. The goal of the handlers is to increase the application performance, make the code more clean and easier to understand.

There are a lot of videos about this new feature! Learn more about Handlers on Microsoft Documentation or Customizing Controls with Handlers in .NET MAUI
 

When can we start using .NET MAUI?

On August 10 2021, .NET MAUI Preview 7 was introduced. It is currently available if you want to learn more and experiment with it. There are still lots of changes to be made, so you can also choose to wait for the first stable version. The first release of this brand new framework is expected to be released in November 2021.
 
What are the differences with Xamarin.Forms? Is Xamarin.Forms 5 worth it or is it better to wait for .NET MAUI to be released? What will happen to Xamarin.Forms? 
We will talk more about this on the upcoming posts

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