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If someone could do the same with Xamarin/Maui that would be awesome!

It’s going down the same path unfortunately as Flutter did.

Microsoft has de-staffed and deprioritized Xamarin/Maui to a point most of the folks are in Aspire-dotnet and related efforts?

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It's such a shame mobile development with C# isn't more viable. I want to make some apps, and I hate JavaScript, but from everything I've read Maui just isn't practical.

Flutter has seen a lot of Xamarin refugees. Even the founder of Xamarin himself is a big Flutter fan:

https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1778759403451081159

The native approach is quite viable: my MvvmCross-based app has been on both stores since 2018 with almost zero MAUI/Xamarin-related issues, even with hundreds of thousands of installs.

Not gonna lie though: building the UI twice for both iOS and Android feels somewhat masochistic. But in the end, it "just works" with shared View/ViewModel logic on both platforms.

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