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.NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development

You're reading from   .NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development Build high-performance apps for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows using XAML and Blazor with .NET 8

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835080597
Length 496 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Roger Ye Roger Ye
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Exploring .NET MAUI FREE CHAPTER
2. Getting Started with .NET MAUI 3. Building Our First .NET MAUI App 4. User Interface Design with XAML 5. Exploring MVVM and Data Binding 6. Navigation Using .NET MAUI Shell and NavigationPage 7. Software Design with Dependency Injection 8. Using Platform-Specific Features 9. Part 2: Implementing .NET MAUI Blazor
10. Introducing Blazor Hybrid App Development 11. Understanding Blazor Routing and Layout 12. Implementing Razor Components 13. Part 3: Testing and Deployment
14. Developing Unit Tests 15. Deploying and Publishing in App Stores 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Implementing navigation

In this chapter, we are going to implement the navigation logic of our password manager app. This will include the following functionalities:

  • Logging in and connecting to the database
  • Exploring data in the password database

Navigation design has a significant impact on user experience. In .NET MAUI, there is a built-in mechanism to help developers implement navigation efficiently. As we saw in the previous chapters, we can use Shell in our app. In this chapter, we will learn about Shell and enhance our app with features provided by Shell. Before we dive into Shell, we will explore the basic navigation mechanism in .NET MAUI.

The most common ways to implement navigation are hierarchial and modal:

  • Hierarchical navigation provides a navigation experience where the user can navigate through pages, both forward and backward. This pattern typically uses a toolbar or navigation bar at the top of the screen to display an Up...
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