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Sep 18, 202611 min read
Shiny.AppDeviceBridge — Stop Waiting on App Review, and Stop Needing the Phone to Test
A web app inside a .NET MAUI app, served from the device, updated from your own signed server whenever you like, and talking to GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, the camera and more through typed C# and TypeScript clients. Background jobs, pushes and geofences reach the page, or a background script when no page is open. Hot reload runs inside the real app, and a terminal simulator stands in for the device so you can test Wi-Fi drops, denied permissions and GPS walks from a browser.
Sep 4, 202619 min read
Shiny Controls 1.3 — Word, Excel and PowerPoint in Your App. Free.
Four Office editors, a free-form notebook, ribbons on everything, Find across all of them, presenting mode for decks, and a camera you call instead of a screen you build. All of it in the box, on .NET MAUI and Blazor, no WebViews.
Aug 26, 202617 min read
Shiny HTTP Transfers: Why Is This Data Still Not Here?
Somebody is waiting on bytes that were supposed to have arrived. Usually nothing was carrying them — HttpClient stops the second iOS suspends your app, and Android will reclaim the process while you are not looking. Shiny.Net.Http hands the bytes to the platform instead — NSURLSession, a foreground service, a connectivity-driven managed loop, Service Worker Background Sync — under one API. Plus why I sign Azure Blob and S3 uploads by hand instead of taking the vendor SDKs, what the Android service does when the network drops, and why a Live Activity has to animate a time range instead of a percentage.
Aug 20, 202611 min read
Level Up Animation with Keyframes for MAUI & Blazor
A seekable keyframe engine for .NET MAUI with CSS @keyframes semantics in XAML, 42 motion icons compiled from one spec into a drawn scene on MAUI and real CSS keyframes on Blazor, and a ShinyButton that finally makes press-wait-see-if-it-worked a one-liner.
Aug 17, 20268 min read
Shiny Controls 1.0 — The Ultra Control Suite for .NET MAUI & Blazor
Sixty-odd controls, one token contract, two renderers, zero WebViews. Shiny Controls hits 1.0 for .NET MAUI and Blazor — and there is a live playground you can click through before you install anything.
Aug 11, 202615 min read
Shiny.Net.HttpServer — A Real HTTP Server Where ASP.NET Core Will Not Go
Ten new packages: a dependency-light, AOT/trim-clean HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 server that runs anywhere .NET runs — including inside a .NET MAUI app on iOS and Android. Routing, middleware, DI scopes, WebSockets, SSE, TLS with managed self-signed certs, an OpenAPI document built with zero reflection, source-generated typed endpoints, XML/MessagePack/protobuf without reflection, gRPC and gRPC-Web, a WebDAV mount, mediator handlers and DocumentDb documents as endpoints, tunnelling so a phone is reachable from the internet, and an MCP server you can point Claude at.
Jul 27, 202633 min read
Faces, Voices & Documents — On-Device Recognition Controls for .NET MAUI
A MAUI UI July post: two drop-in MAUI controls — FaceRecognitionView and FaceEnrollmentView — that put live face recognition and a guided enrollment wizard on screen in one line of XAML, plus the CameraView frame analyzer, a GraphicsView overlay with an even-odd scrim, speaker recognition, and Shiny.DocumentDb + sqlite-vec as the on-device vector database.
Jul 24, 202628 min read
Giving your .NET MAUI a real set of AI Wings
A .NET MAUI app built straight on Microsoft.Extensions.AI — an IChatClient onto OpenAI, ChatOptions.Tools, and UseFunctionInvocation running the loop. The chat UI is a control; the hands are Shiny — contacts, reminders, calendar, GPS, health, music, a local document DB, your own services, and the app's own navigation. All opt-in, all switchable, all AOT-clean.
Jul 6, 20264 min read
Give Your MAUI Agent Hands — Contacts, Reminders & Location as AI Tools
Three new Microsoft.Extensions.AI packages turn device services into tools an LLM can call — Shiny.Contacts.Extensions.AI, Shiny.Notifications.Extensions.AI, and Shiny.Locations.Extensions.AI. Opt-in, read-only by default, AOT-safe, and they all compose into one IChatClient.
Jun 15, 20267 min read
A NEW CameraView to Rule Them All
One CameraView for .NET MAUI (iOS, Android, Windows, macOS AppKit) and Blazor WebAssembly — live preview, photo/video capture, 11 live filters, and a frame-analysis pipeline that scans barcodes, boxes faces, detects motion, runs OCR, and parses invoices, receipts, driver's licenses, health cards, credit cards, and passports into strongly-typed records.
Jun 15, 20265 min read
Shiny Health 2.0 — The Ultimate Cross-Platform Health Library
One IHealthService for Apple HealthKit and Android Health Connect — now with 30+ data types across activity, body, vitals, nutrition, reproductive/cycle tracking and workouts, real-time observation, and a Microsoft.Extensions.AI tool surface so an LLM can read and write your health data.
Apr 26, 20265 min read
AI-Powered Navigation in Shiny MAUI Shell — Chat to Navigate, Intent to Form
How Shiny MAUI Shell uses source generation and Microsoft.Extensions.AI to let an AI chat agent discover your app routes, match user intent, and navigate with pre-filled forms.