With Microsoft’s .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) cross-platform framework due later this yr, serving as the subsequent era of Xamarin Forms, the corporate introduced plans to sundown its Xamarin Community Toolkit for cellular growth.
Microsoft stated it can concern service releases of Xamarin Community Toolkit till November 2022, and pull requests for bug fixes will probably be accepted till that point. Pull requests for including new options will probably be accepted till September. Meanwhile, .NET MAUI is ready for basic availability in November 2021.
A preview of the Xamarin successor, .NET MAUI Community Toolkit, is deliberate for launch in August through NuGet packages. Work is ongoing to port options from the Xamarin Community Toolkit to .NET MAUI. Going ahead, the .NET MAUI toolkit would be the beneficial toolkit for all .NET MAUI apps.
To assist keep away from breaking modifications when porting Xamarin.Forms apps to .NET MAUI, two .NET MAUI-compatible variations of Xamarin Community Toolkit will probably be launched. These “MauiCompat” NuGet packages, due in August, will probably be almost equivalent to the present Xamarin Community Toolkit libraries, the one distinction being the Xamarin.Forms dependency to .NET MAUI. The .NET MAUI Community Toolkit will debut in a new GitHub repo, the place Microsoft will mix it with efforts from the Windows Community Toolkit crew.
Downloaded greater than 250,000 occasions, the Xamarin Community Toolkit offers reusable components for cellular growth with Xamarin.Forms together with animations, behaviors, converters, and results. It has served to simplify widespread developer duties when constructing for iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows Presentation Foundation, and Universal Windows Platform apps utilizing Xamarin.Forms.
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