Should I start an app on MAUI in June 2025?

[JaimeBernar]

I need to start a new project and I'm wondering if MAUI is the correct decission or if I should go for flutter (I don't have any experience with dart or flutter).

All my background is with C#, ASPNET Core, Blazor and Xamarin. The backend will use ASP NET Core so seems like MAUI is a good choice but I have a couple questions.

The app consists of 5 or 6 pages, not too complicated but they will render quite a lot of items. I only need the app on iOS and Android, nothing else.

1. Is MAUI ready for production? Meaning, is it performant? I know that there are a ton of bugs related to hot reload, but that's not my major concern (for real). What I'm mostly concerned about is, can I make it work?
2. How is the experience building the UI purely in C#? Not planning to use XAML at all
3. Is virtualization good? As I've mentioned the pages are quite simple but they will render a larga amount of items.
4. Is authentication working correctly? Can I do social login, SSO etc?
5. What about the performance using Blazor Hybrid? I have a lot of experience with Blazor and I enjoy working with it, also maybe at some point I'll create a webapp using Blazor so maybe I can even reuse components if I use Blazor Hybrid.
6. What other things should I consider?

[saint4eva]

YES

[JaimeBernar]

What kind of answer is that? I asked several valid questions for a person that is deciding between two technologies and your answer is just a plain yes?

[developer9969]

Maui today is way way way better than it used to be .. I would say that is stable now , still a rollercoster though when there is a new release, but given your background and not sure on your timelines I would stick with Maui.

Things to point out...

• Memory leaks have improved but still there, if you are planning to use Shell I strongly reccomend something like Nalu..
• I am a xaml guy and I tried c# for UI and still feel more natural for me to write UI in xaml , and if you know what you are doing xaml is ok.
• Authentication - you can integrate with anything but I would say - you are bit on your own there.
• Hot reload is a hit and miss and so is hot restart if you want to use Windows against a physical iOS device.
• If you are planning to have lots of lists etc... I would stay clear of MS Collections view is just a pain with loads of bugs, I gave up on the collection view 1 year ago and using Syncfusion one.

I have recently done blazor stuff too, and the most pleasant thing , things just worked! when you have 2 OS - android and Apple its a nightmare as things do not work exactly the same and you might be totally happy in android how a page looks and you run in apple and there are issues and viceversa..

Building a solution is slow , depends on how many projects and your machine, there are still issues when in iOS you have to nuke the bin/obj rather than clean to see a change take place

hope the above helps a bit.

[JaimeBernar]

Hi @developer9969, thanks for your answer, I've quickly checked the collection of components that Syncfusion offers and indeed they look promising. Howeve,r do you know if they are they based on other MAUI components? Would not that meant that the also have bugs, memory leaks etc, or are they writen from scratch?

[developer9969]

Hi,
I think they are written from scratch , but nothing stops from you checking them out , of course they have bugs , all software have bugs as you know it. As user of a paid licence I would say they have a very good customer support- usually within a week they have a fix -

Maui fixes and when you raise an issue - Good luck - unless is a P1 forget it.. you have to be in luck..

They are now one of the major contributors to maui in resolving issues, they have also made available many of their controls for free in their toolkit.. I think controls like the SfListview are not free though, in the past they did offer a free licence if you meet their requirements but not sure now -

hope it helps.

[Mimisss]

You may find this answer helpful.

My experience with Blazor Hybrid was not a good one, though. Blending the web technology with the .NET MAUI App Container was like trying to fit the pegs and holes shown in the image below resulting in a very slow development process with lots of obstacles and a horrible debugging experience.

[JaimeBernar]

Thanks! That helped, glad that you are finishing your app with MAUI. Did you used any UI library like Syncfusion or plain MAUI controls? I think I will just go for "normal" MAUI indeed instead of Blazor-Hybrid. My app is also not a huge app but it has so many features like yours, so it was really nice to see that you make it work

[Mimisss]

I opted for plain MAUI controls (Microsoft.Maui.Controls 8.0.7). I wanted to keep things as simple as possible and the app size as small as possible. I did use platform-specific handlers and styles to configure some of them, though. Any other third-party packages I used are non-UI related.