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SkiaSharp and MVVM

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SkiaSharp is a 2D graphics system for .NET and C#, powered by Google’s Skia graphics engine. It’s available as a NuGet package, and can easily be added to an...

Playing local audio files with .NET MAUI

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Previously I wrote about playing audio with .NET MAUI on Android, iOS, Mac Catalyst, and Windows. The main problem with my implementation was that the FilePi...

Playing audio with .NET MAUI

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Many apps, whether mobile or desktop, require the ability to play audio. That audio may be remote, stored in the app bundle, or be chosen from the user’s dev...

Playing video with .NET MAUI on Windows

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Previously I wrote about playing video with .NET MAUI on Android, iOS, and Mac Catalyst. The problem platform was Windows because WinUI 3 lacked any media pl...

Behaviors library for .NET MAUI

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Many years ago I wrote a behaviours library for Xamarin.Forms. The conventional view was that behaviours extend the functionality of controls, with typical e...