Will xamarin become obsolete in November?

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Will xamarin become obsolete in November?

sh hamidi 46

hi
I have seen this headline that is xamarin dead?
i am 3 year working with xamarin.
Do Xamarin disappears or becomes obsolete?
Or just a better substitute for it comes?

Sam of Simple Samples 5,506 Reputation points

2021-05-02T18:02:21.047+00:00

Where did you see that?
sh hamidi 46 Reputation points

2021-05-02T18:06:42.113+00:00

i saw it first time in instagram. and searched it and i saw some article about it
Sam of Simple Samples 5,506 Reputation points

2021-05-03T03:22:29.713+00:00

As you can see, it is being replaced with an improvement. And Xamarin.Forms will continue to receive service releases. That is why it would have helped to have the exact article you were reading. Many, many times people read that something is not being improved and they mistakenly think it is going to stop working.

Sam of Simple Samples 5,506 Reputation points

2021-05-02T18:02:21.047+00:00

Where did you see that?
sh hamidi 46 Reputation points

2021-05-02T18:06:42.113+00:00

i saw it first time in instagram. and searched it and i saw some article about it
Sam of Simple Samples 5,506 Reputation points

2021-05-03T03:22:29.713+00:00

As you can see, it is being replaced with an improvement. And Xamarin.Forms will continue to receive service releases. That is why it would have helped to have the exact article you were reading. Many, many times people read that something is not being improved and they mistakenly think it is going to stop working.

Answer 1

JarvanZhang 23,891

Hello,

Welcome to our Microsoft Q&A platform!

In .NET 6, the new .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) will be announced. .NET MAUI is the evolution of Xamarin.Forms, a cross-platform mobile first framework for Android, iOS, and UWP. You could think of this as the next major version of the same product you know today. But

Xamarin.Forms will continue to receive service releases through November 2022.

Check the doc: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/the-new-net-multi-platform-app-ui-maui/#net-multi-platform-app-ui-maui

Best Regards,

Jarvan Zhang

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Cheong00 3,461 Reputation points

2021-05-03T03:49:03.513+00:00

Since MAUI removed support for Linux and VSCode, I do hope the Xamarin.Forms library do keep maintained until the original support scope of Xamarin.Forms got covered by MAUI.

EDIT: In fact you can use MAUI with VSCode if you don't mind adding some extra steps and have some features missing.
Lex Li (Microsoft) 3,896 Reputation points

2021-05-03T16:46:29.803+00:00

Xamarin is much more than Xamarin.Forms.
Lex Li (Microsoft) 3,896 Reputation points

2021-05-03T16:50:46.757+00:00

Xamarin.Forms does not have official Linux support from Microsoft, so if you were referring to that "original support scope", it is well kept by MAUI.

Answer 2

Lex Li (Microsoft) 3,896

The Xamarin offers (iOS, Android, Mac) are being moved to .NET 6,

We started the unification process in .NET 5. For that release, we chose Blazor WebAssembly as the first unified platform deliverable. It is based on the Mono runtime, uses the .NET class libraries, and .NET SDK tools. We will use the same model for iOS, and Android as we integrate Xamarin. With a unified platform, new APIs and performance improvements will be available to all developers on the same day, and work for all apps.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-6-preview-1/#unified-and-extended

If you have been working on Xamarin for years, you should follow all .NET 6 news and check out what the migration path is.

sh hamidi 46 Reputation points

2021-05-03T18:16:07.253+00:00

So there is no need to migrate to Maui right now?
sh hamidi 46 Reputation points

2021-05-03T18:17:09.23+00:00

thx
i will follow it
Lex Li (Microsoft) 3,896 Reputation points

2021-05-03T21:40:16.083+00:00

If you don't use Xamarin.Forms today, you won't need to migrate to MAUI.

Will xamarin become obsolete in November?

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