Production .NET Maui App Builders! What are your methodologies and workflows to build stable apps?

[ajay-mundi]

Hello All,

I have been working on a production MAUI app for the last year and it has been a pretty rough ride to be totally honest. No hate to the MAUI team, very appreciative of their efforts and definitely noticing improvements. I am not the most experienced developer and acknowledge a lot of the issues I am running into are due to my own knowledge gaps and also just the nature of development.

I am the sole MAUI mobile developer for my company and my task was to convert our existing native mobile apps (iOS and Android) to .NET Maui along with a facelift and some new features. Our MAUI app has been deployed on the iOS and google play store for 3 months now. I am having issues stabilizing these apps. I notice a lot of regressions in features I made that used to work but don't work anymore. A fair bit of sporadic crashing (maybe a memory issue?) and crashes on certain devices that work fine on most others. I am looking to improve my quality assurance and development process. I was wondering what processes/methodologies others have applied to their production MAUI apps to get them to be stable for a wider audience. What does your general team, dynamic & workflow look like? How many people are working on your app? Do they come from a Xamarin Forms background or new to cross platform c# mobile development? Just want to get a sense of who else is out there working with MAUI :).

Do you have any hard and fast rules when developing in MAUI, perhaps for optimizing performance and reducing memory usage?

The app I am working on is mid-complexity I would say, some key features include:

• uploading/displaying/managing images&docs
• data input into custom forms
• gps location, mapping, map markups
• deeplinking
• connecting to external hardware
• sharing targets
• push notifications
• offline capabilities/data sync

Trying my best to follow best practices like MVVM, dependency injection, SOLID etc.

I use Syncfusion for image editing, pdf viewing and some of their other controls such as tabview.

I recently started automated UI testing with the goal of automating the 20% of our use cases that 80% of clients use in the hopes that this will catch regressions before deployment. Just looking to get better, any feedback or information is greatly appreciated!

Looking forward to hearing from you.