Is it possible to create platform specific views? - maui

Question

In UWP, device specific views can be created by placing those views into their respective folders or appending the relevant device name to the file name.
I don't see any information on doing the equivalent with MAUI as regards platform specific views only platform specific code.
Is this a thing ?
The closest I can get is using preprocessor directives and giving the files unique names. This means there are still multiple code behind files unfortunately.
So -
#if ANDROID
await Navigation.PushAsync(new Page1Windows());
#elif WINDOWS
await Navigation.PushAsync(new Page1Android());
#endif

Answer 1

It's a thing.
The default MAUI projects provide a platform specific folder you can put platform specific code in.
If you want something more complicated, like your platform-named folders or files, you can edit your csproj to include or exclude files by name & platform.
There are examples of both file and folder-based targeting in the Configure multi-targeting docs:
Here's the combined view from Combine filename and folder multi-targeting that excludes files and folders that include platform names that don't match the current target.
<ItemGroup Condition="$(TargetFramework.StartsWith('net6.0-android')) != true">
<Compile Remove="**\**\*.Android.cs" /> <None Include="**\**\*.Android.cs" Exclude="$(DefaultItemExcludes);$(DefaultExcludesInProjectFolder)" />
<Compile Remove="**\Android\**\*.cs" /> <None Include="**\Android\**\*.cs" Exclude="$(DefaultItemExcludes);$(DefaultExcludesInProjectFolder)" />
</ItemGroup>
<ItemGroup Condition="$(TargetFramework.StartsWith('net6.0-ios')) != true AND $(TargetFramework.StartsWith('net6.0-maccatalyst')) != true">
<Compile Remove="**\**\*.iOS.cs" /> <None Include="**\**\*.iOS.cs" Exclude="$(DefaultItemExcludes);$(DefaultExcludesInProjectFolder)" />
<Compile Remove="**\iOS\**\*.cs" /> <None Include="**\iOS\**\*.cs" Exclude="$(DefaultItemExcludes);$(DefaultExcludesInProjectFolder)" />
</ItemGroup>
<ItemGroup Condition="$(TargetFramework.Contains('-windows')) != true ">
<Compile Remove="**\*.Windows.cs" /> <None Include="**\*.Windows.cs" Exclude="$(DefaultItemExcludes);$(DefaultExcludesInProjectFolder)" />
<Compile Remove="**\Windows\**\*.cs" /> <None Include="**\Windows\**\*.cs" Exclude="$(DefaultItemExcludes);$(DefaultExcludesInProjectFolder)" />
</ItemGroup>