https://github.com/jamesnk/aspnetcore-maui
A sample of hosting ASP.NET Core in a MAUI app
https://github.com/jamesnk/aspnetcore-maui
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A sample of hosting ASP.NET Core in a MAUI app
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/jamesnk/aspnetcore-maui
- Owner: JamesNK
- License: mit
- Created: 2024-01-16T01:42:20.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-02-06T22:46:06.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-16T09:22:56.881Z (12 days ago)
- Language: C#
- Size: 13 MB
- Stars: 27
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 5
- Open Issues: 3
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# ASP.NET Core in MAUI
This is an experiment for hosting an ASP.NET Core inside a MAUI app.
## Why
ASP.NET Core in MAUI is a [highly requested feature](https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/35077) (currently the 3rd most commented issue in [dotnet/aspnetcore](https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore)). Support for hosting an HTTP server opens new opportunities for MAUI apps:
* Share files with desktop computers on the same network over HTTP.
* Host a web GUI control panel to remote control the mobile app (Start/stop/Record/Pause/Take photo etc)
* Expose APIs (RESTful, gRPC, or SignalR) that other devices can use to interact with the mobile app.
## Source
The repository contains a sample app that uses .NET 8, MAUI and ASP.NET Core. Hacks are required to include ASP.NET Core DLLs in the app because the `Microsoft.AspNetCore.App` framework reference is unsupported on mobile targets: `net8.0-android`, `net8.0-ios`, `net8.0-maccatalyst`.
Solution projects:
* `MauiApp` - The MAUI app. It hosts an ASP.NET Core server. Logging from the server is output to the UI. The app responds to commands sent to the server.
* `MauiApp.Web` - A project that contains the ASP.NET Core server. The MAUI app project references this.
* `Client.SignalR` - A SignalR client used to call the MAUI app.
* `Client.Auth` - A RESTful client that authenticates with the mobile server app and calls APIs that require authorization.
* `ConsoleWebAppHost` - A console app that references `MauiApp.Web` to test hosting the ASP.NET Core server outside of MAUI.
## Local network access
The mobile app exposes two endpoints: `http://localhost:5000`, `https://localhost:5001`. Use Android Debug Bridge (adb) to [forward local ports to the Android emulator](https://developer.android.com/tools/adb#forwardports):
```
adb forward tcp:5000 tcp:5000
adb forward tcp:5001 tcp:5001
```
## Demo
