Building Cross-Platform Applications with .NET MAUI/

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MAUI Project Structure

MAUI Project Structure

Learn the fundamental structure of a .NET MAUI application project.

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We'll look at the default structure of a .NET MAUI project that gets generated when creating a new project from the .NET MAUI template. The complete project is found in the code playground below. Android is set as its built target, as specified on line 4 of the MauiApp1.csproj file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <color name="colorPrimary">#512BD4</color>
    <color name="colorPrimaryDark">#2B0B98</color>
    <color name="colorAccent">#2B0B98</color>
</resources>
.NET MAUI project example

Application entry points

In MAUI, each entry point is platform specific. All of them can be found inside the Platforms folder. If we expand this folder, we can find a subfolder representing each supporting platform we can build our application for. In the default project template, the Platforms folder includes the following project-specific folders:

  • Android

  • MacCatalyst

  • iOS ...