Cross-Platform Magic in .NET 8: Develop .NET MAUI Android Apps on Linux with Visual Studio Code

Developing .NET MAUI mobile apps on Linux is now a reality! Thanks to the recently announced .NET MAUI extension you can now develop apps on different operating systems with Visual Studio Code. Debugging on devices, emulators, and simulators as well as other features from Visual Studio is possible thanks to the C# Dev Kit, so you can enhance your productivity with C# in VS Code.

In this session, we'll demonstrate and explain the essentials for starting your journey into developing .NET MAUI mobile apps with the VS Code extension on Linux operating system. From requirements, configuration, capabilities, limitations, demos, and features, this step-by-step guide will help you understand how .NET 8 offers a truly cross-platform experience.

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[candinhosilveira]

why not maui aplicantions for linux? thats is what the community was asking and not developing ON linux

[DestinationDub]

Great to see some Maui love on Linux but don't say "we at Microsoft love Linux" until we can actually create Linux apps!

[GebzNotJebz]

this is so deceptive and malicious. you are talking about developing MAUI on linux, but not developing maui apps FOR LINUX! shame on you microsoft..

[LuisAlfredo]

I liked a lot how enthusiastic Bruno is

[yongamamkolokotho]

Lets say I have an app already created in windows can will I be able to open only the android project from that project?

[GebzNotJebz]

It's funny this one video made me abandon the .NET platform altogether and switch entirely to Java, I don't regret it.

[randallstephens]

Clickbait. This is not what users were asking for. There is no reason a properly designed MAUI framework should not have a Platform Abstraction Layer for any desktop-like platform. All the features MAUI needs are already on Linux, they're just called something different. All that's needed is a properly documented and supported PAL, and the port will be done.

[parcanapp]

No one wants to develop on Linux in VM, what we want is to have our Maui apps run on Linux and web natively, the way uno platform does. This sucks

[elingeorgiev]

I'm using .NET 9.0 and still can't download the iOS workload (just not available).
VS Code doesn't let you run or debug without having all the workloads, which makes the whole MAUI completely unusable for Linux.
Also Microsoft never learn to stay up to date, and force you to use older versions of JDK and other Android tools. Sometimes you don't even get told what version you need and have to search and guess, also even if you have the right versions, if there are other installed together it's still going to tell you that you don't have the right one on your system.

Yes, this whole video is a clickbait... you just build an empty app and that's it.
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