.NET MAUI: Get unique device and installation ids for your app
This content has 2 years. Some of the information in this post may be out of date or no longer work. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Why unique device and installations identifiers are important? First, let’s define what we mean by a unique device and installation identifiers. Essentially, these are codes that are assigned to individual devices and installations of an app. They allow developers to track usage on a specific device and identify individual installations of the app. This is important because it allows us to understand how users are interacting with our app and identify patterns in usage. For example, if we notice that a particular device is experiencing a high number of crashes, we can use the device ids to track down the specific device and troubleshoot the issue. Another important use case for unique device and installation identifiers is providing targeted and personalized content or experiences for users. For example, we can use this information to show users personalized advertisements or to offer them special deals or promotions based on their usage patterns. In addition to these benefits, device and install ids also play an important role in security and fraud prevention. By tracking the usage of our app on specific devices, we can identify and prevent unauthorized access to the app or service. This can help to protect user data and prevent fraud and other malicious activities. How to get unique identifiers in .NET MAUI? On Android, you can get a…
.NET MAUI Jailbreak and root detection
This content has 2 years. Some of the information in this post may be out of date or no longer work. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.banditoth.MAUI packages just got a new package: banditoth.MAUI.JailbreakDetector. 2022 was a great year for me in a software development perspective, my MAUI packages got downloaded over more than 1500 times, which is a great achievement for me. I’m keeping up the work, and having a new package on my palette: A lightweight root and jailbreak detection algorithm for Android and iOS with .NET MAUI. What is jailbreaking? Jailbreaking is the process of removing the limitations imposed on iOS devices by Apple. It allows users to install apps and tweaks that are not available on the App Store, customise the appearance of the operating system, and access features that are otherwise restricted. Jailbreaking an iOS device is considered to be a violation of Apple’s terms of service, and it can also make the device more vulnerable to security risks. What is rooting? Rooting is the process of allowing users of smartphones, tablets and other devices running the Android mobile operating system to attain privileged control (known as root access) over various Android subsystems. Rooting is often performed with the goal of removing limitations that hardware manufacturers or carriers place on some devices, thereby providing the latest versions of Android to devices that no longer receive official updates, or unlocking features which are otherwise unavailable to the user. Rooting is also often…
.NET MAUI : Get current activity on Android
This content has 2 years. Some of the information in this post may be out of date or no longer work. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.If you want to access the current activity on Android you will need to use the code below: They made it very easy to access it. Appreciate it!
.NET MAUI : Write multilingual apps easily
This content has 2 years. Some of the information in this post may be out of date or no longer work. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.If you need a solution to create multilingual applications without the hassle of implementing all kinds of code, I have good news for you. I’ve migrated my Xamarin.Forms package to .NET MAUI, and you can easily build multilingual applications with MAUI. No need to restart the application, the language takes effect immediately and works on all platforms. You can also use it from XAML, and C# code. It can handle multiple resource files at the same time. It can store the last language set by the user, and the next time you restart it, it will use the same language as the last time the user set it. But instead of letters, watch this video to see what exactly it can do: Let’s get started This project is available on GitHub: https://github.com/banditoth/MAUI.Packages To start with, I’ve put together a demo app for you for the sake of demonstration. There is no extra functionality, just 4 buttons. Three of them are to change the language of the application, and one of them is to give us a pop-up window. There is no logic to it yet, but together we will build on the article. Create translation files The first thing you will need are files containing multilingual translations. If you are familiar with Xamarin Forms, I will not surprise you: we…
Configure CI pipeline with .NET MAUI Release candidate (for NuGets)
This content has 3 years. Some of the information in this post may be out of date or no longer work. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.In order to do automated builds in Azure DevOps with the .NET MAUI Release Candidate release, we need a few extra steps in the pipeline configuration. I used these steps to ensure that the NuGet packages I develop are automatically compiled and uploaded to NuGet.org. In this article I won’t go into detail about how to create a CI pipeline, I just want to show you the difference from a normal CI pipeline. I haven’t tried building and deploying applications in the cloud at the moment, but it can probably be done. Also, I don’t go into how to make the package automatically go to NuGet.org, for that I recommend an earlier article (and also how to create a CI/CD pipeline): https://www.banditoth.net/2021/11/09/azure-devops-setup-private-nuget-feed-with-ci/ Since a final version of .NET MAUI has not been released as of today, in order to build our applications in the cloud, we need to install the MAUI Workload on the Agent.If we do not do this, we may encounter the following error: Adjust your pipeline In order to install the workload on our build agent, create a new task at the very beginning in the pipeline file, which is executes a command in the command line: This will result the following task in the yaml file: The installation of the workload will take about 5 minutes….
Hi, I am András,
I am a seasoned software engineer from Budapest, Hungary with a strong focus on mobile app development using .NET MAUI and Xamarin.Forms. My expertise also extends to website building for my happy customers and other complex system designing. I am passionate about developing well-organized, maintainable software solutions.
