Version 11 of the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit has been released, adding offline speech recognition alongside support for .NET 9.

NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop. It allows developers to create a single project that works on multiple targets. Any platform-specific assets are placed in sub-folders, and the developer can focus on writing shared UI and code.

The Community Toolkit is a community-created library that contains Extensions, Advanced UI/UX Controls, Converters, and Behaviors.

The new version follows hard on the heels of version 10.0. This version adds offline speech to text conversion, even when not connected to the Internet. The release notes on GitHub say that there's no longer any need for an active internet connection for speech recognition, you can now convert to speech to text while offline. Note that this is available from Android 33 and up and iOS13 and up. 

This release also changes to use a parsing expression grammar (PEG) parser, which introduces boolean operators and constants.

The updated toolkit also adds full support for .NET 9 and .NET MAUI 9, and the release cycle also includes updates for CameraView, MediaElement and Maps.

This release does include some breaking changes, including the dropping of support for .NET 8, and a requirement to use Xcode 16.1.

The developers also point out that CommunityToolkit.Maui.Behaviors no longer automatically assign Behavior.BindingContext for you by automatically inheriting their parent's BindingContext. This is a breaking change from Xamarin.Forms, and if your Behavior has a Binding, it must manually assign the BindingContext,

The updated Community Toolkit is available now. 

More Information

MAUI On GitHub

MAUI Community Toolkit On GitHub

.NET Multi-platform App UI

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