NET MAUI in .NET 8 Preview 5 is available and contains bug fixes and performance improvements for cross-platform application development. It includes changes to iOS keyboard scrolling, test improvements, performance enhancements to the {Binding} mechanism and Android label layout. The announcement provoked different reactions in the community.
Visual Studio 2022 on Windows offers .NET 8 platform previews and the .NET MAUI preview workload. In order to access them, it is necessary to download version 17.7 Preview 2, select the .NET Multi-platform Application UI workload and enable the optional ‘.NET MAUI (.NET 8 Preview)’ component. For macOS users, it is recommended to download the .NET 8 preview 5 installer and install .NET MAUI using the command line.
