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Hi everyone,
I'm encountering an issue while trying to bundle an iOS native broadcast extension with a .NET MAUI app. Here’s what I’ve done so far:
.appex file from the extension build to the Platforms/iOS folder of our .NET MAUI app.
.csproj file of the .NET MAUI project, we included the extension file with the following configuration: Has anyone else faced a similar issue? What steps did you take to ensure that the broadcast extension is correctly included in the final build output?
Any guidance or troubleshooting tips would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
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You just copy the file from your native iOS project to the MAUI project, right?
There is a Broadcast UI Extension(iOS) project template, do you create a project and add the project reference to MAUI?
I'm very new to ios/maui development so everything i do has a very high internet knowledge dependency. Apologies in advance.
Ill explain everything I've done so far.
1.Initially I created a broadcast extension as an Xcode project . Built it and got the appex file.
2.Created a MAUI app using VSCode ( visual studio would have been a better choice but .NET8 support for visual studio mac is not supported ). The maui app has only 3 buttons start,stop,pause .
3.Now I want to bundle this ios extension to be bundled with my MAUI app so that using the maui app I can do screen record in iOS device by invoking the extension. So I copied the appex file into platform/ios directory. And in csproj file of my MAUI app I mentioned this appex file so that when the IPA file for iOS is built this appex file will also be built along with it.
<ItemGroup>
<None Include="Platforms/iOS/ScreenBroadcastExtension.appex"></None>
</ItemGroup>
Upon analysing I did not find the appex file being bundles with the IPA file.
Also please tell me how usually people add extension of ios to MAUI apps , beacuse extentions can be cretaed only using XCode and in mac MAUI app cannot be created with visual studio
Genuine thanks
*Without app group feature it is not possible for apps to communicate in iOS extension , is it possible to add a MAUI app to an app group ?
*In mac environments extensions can be created only in Xcode and MAUI apps can be created only in VScode ( visual studio .net 8 is no longer available for mac ). SO how can these entirely different project environments communicate or bundle together ?
Please see the ongoing github issue link : https://github.com/dotnet/maui/discussions/3289
Hello,
Yes, it's a known issue at GitHub- iOS Broadcast Upload Extension is not working / no project template · Issue #17512 · xamarin/xamarin-macios (github.com)
And there is no such official doc to show how to implement this feature. Please follow the progress at GitHub and add comments to let them know your need and concerns.
Best Regards,
Wenyan Zhang
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