Getting started with Android Bindings in .NET MAUI

This tutorial guides you through the creation of 3 simple projects, illustrating step-by-step how to integrate and use a native Android library within a .NET MAUI application. This video is ideal for beginners with no prior experience in Android bindings, as well as those looking to enhance their cross-platform development skills.

00:00 | Intro
00:59 | Creation of a native Android Library
03:16 | Using the JD-GUI decompiler to explore the newly created Library
04:03 | Creation of a Binding Library
07:05 | Creation of a .NET MAUI application
10:08 | Adding partial classes
16:01 | Working with dependencies in the Binding Library
22:33 | Excluding a dependency from Binding Library
24:50 | Dropping a method from Binding Library
28:40 | Debugging XPath
30:27 | Three pieces of advice for beginners

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[artem_mix]

great tutorial, with full details and points to check. Anton, thanks!

[CharlesV-vnue]

Great video Anton! And thank you for the advice 👍

[billymartin]

Great video. Please keep going with advanced Maui platform topics. Would really love one on Maui app actions (holding down the homescreen icon and getting page links). Also would love one on homescreen widgets using Maui Android and iOS. Thanks

[Esimaxchannel]

Thanks, This was very helpful, can you also show how you can run a unity game in MAUI?

[Lucas-rome]

Great video and great topic to address, there's very little content about this. Congratulations. Will there be an iOS video as well? I believe it is the most difficult of the bindings.

[kleberferreira]

Thanks for the great video! Do you have any plans on showing how to make iOS bindings?
Here at work we will soon need to make a bindings library of the iOS ARKit + SceneKit for MAUI.

[billymartin]

I followed your video, and android was easy. Having trouble with swift. Can you do video on that please?

[rajashanmugam]

i am using jar and aar file in the android binding library, with .net 8. when i build android binding library the release folder has only.dll, .aar. .jar is not available after successful build. Do you have any idea why .jar is not available in release folder?