{"id":220939,"date":"2026-03-07T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/new-maui-gtk-project-provides-a-gtk4-backend-for-microsofts-net-maui\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:50:08","slug":"new-maui-gtk-project-provides-a-gtk4-backend-for-microsofts-net-maui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/new-maui-gtk-project-provides-a-gtk4-backend-for-microsofts-net-maui\/","title":{"rendered":"New Maui.Gtk Project Provides A GTK4 Backend For Microsoft&#8217;s .NET MAUI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Microsoft-dotNET-MAUI-GTK4\">New Maui.Gtk Project Provides A GTK4 Backend For Microsoft&#8217;s .NET MAUI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Microsoft-dotNET-MAUI-GTK4\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Microsoft-dotNET-MAUI-GTK4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-07 06:54:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maui.Gtk is a new open-source project providing a GTK4 Linux back-end for Microsoft&#8217;s .NET MAUI.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s .NET Multi-Platform App UI &#8220;MAUI&#8221; allows creating native apps using C# and XAML not only for Windows but also macOS, iOS, and Android platforms as an evolution of Xamarin.Forms. With the new Gtk.Maui from the open-source community, this single-codebase, multi-platform solution is also beginning to see better Linux support too.\n<\/p>\n<p>Maui.Gtk allows for .NET MAUI applications to run natively on the Linux desktop with GTK4 rendering via GirCore bindings. It&#8217;s still considered in an experimental state but already showing signs of life:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=gtk_maui_1\" alt=\"Maui.Gtk example\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=gtk_maui_2\" alt=\"Gtk.Maui example\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Those interested in this experimental Linux\/GTK4 back-end for Microsoft .NET MAUI can find it on GitHub under an MIT license.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Microsoft-dotNET-MAUI-GTK4\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Maui.Gtk Project Provides A GTK4 Backend For Microsoft&#8217;s .NET MAUI https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Microsoft-dotNET-MAUI-GTK4 Publish Date: 2026-03-07&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=gtk_maui_1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-220939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220941,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220939\/revisions\/220941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}