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Building a News App Using .NET MAUI Shell
In this chapter, we will create a news app that leverages the Shell navigation functionality provided to us by the .NET MAUI team at Microsoft. The old way of doing this, which involved using ContentPage, FlyoutPage, TabbedPage, or NavigationPage as the main page, as we did in Chapter 2, still works, but we are sure that you will enjoy the new way of defining the structure of your app. Also, you can mix and match the old and new.
By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to define an app structure using Shell, consume data from a REST API, configure navigation, and pass data between views using query-style routes.
So, what is Shell, then? In Shell, you define the structure of your app using ...
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