Xamarin to .NET MAUI.
In Days, Not Months.
Google Play's 16 KB mandate is here — and Xamarin will never support it. Kanetic-x, Kansoft's AI-driven framework, moves each app to .NET MAUI in ~15 days with screens and business logic intact.
Xamarin Solution Scan
3 apps · 61 packages · 16 KB report
MAUI Blueprint Ready
.NET MAUI on .NET 9 · single project
Code Transformation
Renderers → handlers · 78% auto-migrated
Validation & UAT
16 KB compliance · device matrix · UAT builds
Most legacy migrations are a cost decision. This one is a compliance decision: Google's 16 KB memory page-size requirement cannot be met on Xamarin, and Xamarin's support ended in May 2024. Every Play Store update you plan is now blocked behind this move.
The 16 KB Mandate
Google Play requires apps targeting Android 15+ to support 16 KB memory page sizes. Xamarin's native libraries are compiled with 4 KB alignment — they crash on 16 KB devices, and no Xamarin update is coming to fix it.
Xamarin Is End-of-Life
Microsoft ended Xamarin support on May 1, 2024. No security patches, no SDK updates, no new Android or iOS API bindings. Every month on Xamarin widens the gap between your app and the platforms it runs on.
Store Updates Blocked
Target-SDK requirements ratchet up every year. Once your app can no longer meet them, you can't publish updates — not even a critical bug fix. Your release pipeline has a countdown attached.
Abandoned Plugin Ecosystem
Xamarin community plugins — push, camera, barcode, maps — are no longer maintained. Each OS update breaks another dependency, and there is no upstream left to fix it.
Unpatched Security Exposure
An out-of-support runtime in a business app is an audit finding waiting to happen. Compliance teams in manufacturing, BFSI, and healthcare are already flagging Xamarin apps in vendor reviews.
The Rewrite Trap
Quoted the traditional way, a Xamarin-to-MAUI migration runs ~2 months per app — and portfolios of 3–5 apps stall for half a year. Teams postpone, and the deadline gets closer.
Xamarin and MAUI are close cousins — which is exactly why a from-scratch rewrite is the wrong tool. Kanetic-x automates the mechanical 80% so engineers focus on the platform-specific 20%.
This is one app's journey from Xamarin scan to UAT handover, day by day. Each phase is informed by Xamarin-specific patterns — custom renderers, DependencyService calls, platform projects, Forms lifecycle — not generic refactoring rules.
Discover
Automated solution scan maps every page, renderer, plugin, and native dependency — and grades each against the 16 KB requirement.
Design
AI produces the target MAUI blueprint: single-project structure, handler mapping, and a vetted replacement for every dead plugin.
Transform
.NET Upgrade Assistant plus AI-driven conversion moves the codebase: namespaces, APIs, renderers, and resources migrate in bulk, reviewed by engineers.
Validate
Screen-by-screen parity against the Xamarin baseline, a physical device matrix, and store-compliance checks before UAT handover.
Kanetic-x handles the full spectrum — from a clean Xamarin.Forms lift to apps with heavy native code and years of accumulated plugins.
Xamarin.Forms → .NET MAUI
The direct path. XAML pages, MVVM view models, and business logic carry over; renderers become handlers; the solution collapses into a single project on .NET 9.
Xamarin.Android / iOS → .NET for Android / iOS
Native Xamarin apps without Forms move to the supported .NET for Android and .NET for iOS SDKs — same UI code, modern runtime, 16 KB compliant.
Custom Renderers → Handlers
The part teams fear most. Kanetic-x converts renderer patterns to MAUI's handler architecture automatically, with engineer review on platform-specific edge cases.
Dead Plugin Replacement
Unmaintained Xamarin plugins are mapped to MAUI Community Toolkit, .NET MAUI Essentials APIs, or vetted maintained alternatives — with behaviour parity tests.
Multi-App Portfolios
Migrating 3–10 apps? Shared libraries are converted once, patterns learned on app one accelerate apps two through ten, and releases are sequenced around your business calendar.
CI/CD & Store Submission
Build pipelines rebuilt for .NET MAUI — signing, versioning, 16 KB verification, and Play Store / App Store submission included in the cutover.
A leading Indian cement manufacturer ran three business-critical mobile applications on Xamarin. Google's 16 KB page-size requirement put all three on a countdown — Xamarin could not be upgraded to meet it.
Business Partner & Dealer Management App
Migrated to .NET MAUI in ~15 days
Retailer Engagement & Scheme App
Migrated to .NET MAUI in ~15 days
Architect & Engineer Lead Generation App
Migrated to .NET MAUI in ~15 days
Each app was large — multiple modules, years of features, and live user bases that could not tolerate a broken release. A conventional rewrite was estimated at roughly two months per application.
Using the Kanetic-x approach — Microsoft's .NET Upgrade Assistant combined with AI-assisted code transformation — Kansoft migrated each app in about 15 days and delivered all three to UAT in under four weeks. No screens were rebuilt from scratch, and every app now meets the 16 KB page-size requirement.
Results from Xamarin-to-MAUI migrations delivered through the Kanetic-x framework.
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Xamarin 16 KB Compatibility Report
Share your Xamarin application (or portfolio) with our team. Kanetic-x will generate a per-app assessment — 16 KB compatibility findings, plugin risk inventory, and a day-level migration timeline — within 48 hours.