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I was trying to build mobile application using Blazor and then I came across this article https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mobile-blazor-bindings/ it uses Xamarin and some razor page to create mobile application. My main concern is can I use it to make mobile application for production? Because in the article it uses "Experimental" term.
Also I came across Blazor hybrid that uses .NET MAUI Blazor App (Preview) package to convert existing Blazor website code into mobile application. But I cannot find this package on my Visual Studio Community 2022 version 17.2.5 so I am stuck. This issue was created and later closed https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/3238.
Microsoft is putting emphasis on .NET MAUI for building mobile app. So I suggest you to go with it. Other than that you can use Xamarin to. I don't suggest you to build with Blazor because it is a hybrid. Better you use a fully built technology like .NET MAUI.
They have .NET MAUI Blazor and .NET MAUI Xamarin (Experimental). Blazor one is suitable for those who are familiar with HTML, CSS, and razor. The other one is for Xamarin developers.
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The mobile binding is for existing xamarin projects. As xamarin is being replaced by Maui, new project should use Maui.
Note: you just use a webview to host a blazor app, so any mobile sdk can support blazor.
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I cannot find this package on my Visual Studio Community 2022 version 17.2.5 so I am stuck
MAUI, including MAUI Blazor, is out of preview. It is a released and supported product. MAUI tooling was first generally released in Visual Studio 2022 17.3. Prior to that it was available only in the preview track. If you upgrade you should be able to add the MAUI workflow from the VS installer. MAUI tooling is still preview in VS for Mac and available only in the preview track.
As an experimental project, Mobile Blazor Bindings is not supported on Q&A. If you have questions about it please post in its GitHub at https://github.com/xamarin/MobileBlazorBindings . I believe it has been superseded by the Blazor Desktop feature for MAUI, WPF, and WinForms.
It can be said that it has to wait for a while to mature. MAUI still has issue for improvement in my experiments
Maui Blazor is still more mature, than building a mobile app using a web view and blazor with custom bindings.
But to be honest, I stopped using web view style mobile applications (Cordova, native-react, etc) and switched to native app development. SwiftUI and Jetpack are so easy to use, and native components are much more stable, that the "shared" code argument does not hold water any more. You really want the app to feel like a native app. Push the shared code to the server.
Yes, I have been using MAUI Blazor as my next-stage development tool, and I have also done a lot of testing and work. I found that the shared library under mac still cannot compile
If you have time, you can take a look at my project, maui compiles uwp under windows, android, ios are all very good.
The shared project under macos keeps prompting that the xxx file cannot be compiled and cannot be found. I tried to publish the shared library as a nuget package for the maui blazor project reference, and no error was reported. So there should be a problem with msbuilder.
this is my project
BlazorMaui
and open this BlazorMauiMac.sln1, and my bolg (in chinese) 16581870.html