Weather '21

This is a .NET MAUI app showcasing .NET 6 Preview 4 progress. For more information about what's included, read the release blog post.

Requirements

To run this app, you'll need:

.NET 6 Preview 4
- .NET MAUI and platform SDKs
Visual Studio 16.11 Preview 1

The easiest way to get .NET 6 Preview 4 is to install the maui-check dotnet tool from CLI and follow the instructions.

Install:

dotnet tool install -g redth.net.maui.check

Run:

maui-check

For additional NuGet config, follow the Getting Started guide.

For running on Mac you'll currently use your favorite text editor and terminal to edit and run apps. We expect Visual Studio for Mac .NET 6 support to begin arriving mid-year.

New Controls

In Preview 4 we enable push/pop navigation with NavigationPage. We added a concrete implementation of IWindow, and completed porting ContentPage from Xamarin.Forms.

Platform Integrations

To demonstrate how easily you can enable platform-native integrations, we added a handful of features:

App Actions - Microsoft.Maui.Essentials provides a simple API to add shortcuts you access from the app icon
System Tray - added the .NET bot to the tray on Windows and status bar on macOS
Notifications - trigger a notification when clicking the bot

Single Project

The WeatherTwentyOne project is a multi-targeted SDK project that can run on Android, iOS, and macOS. To choose your platform to run on, use the new static run profiles from the run button.

C# Hot Reload - Android

Switch the WeatherTwentyOne.csproj to be <TargetFrameworks>net6.0-android</TargetFrameworks>
In the WeatherTwentyOne.csproj set the UseInterpreter property to true:

Additional Resources

https://github.com/dotnet/maui-samples

https://github.com/dotnet/maui