Small Bytes: .NET MAUI Desktop Apps (Premium)
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.NET MAUI is the successor to Xamarin Forms and it obviously isn’t the first cross-platform framework to target both mobile and desktop. But it’s positioned similarly to competitors like Flutter or React Native. That is, no developer will ever use .NET MAUI to create a new app that only runs on Windows. Instead, MAUI is best used to tailor a new or existing mobile app so that it works bette…