.NET MAUI Engineering Team Live Stream: AI-Powered .NET MAUI Development with MauiDevFlow

Jakub Florkowski, Shane Neuville, and Gerald Versluis from the .NET MAUI team build a .NET MAUI app live using MauiDevFlow, showing how AI agents can inspect and interact with a running MAUI app to speed up UI changes and debugging.

Full summary based on transcript

What the livestream is about

The presenters demonstrate an AI-assisted development loop for .NET MAUI using MauiDevFlow, an open-source toolkit that gives AI agents “eyes and hands” inside a running MAUI app.

MauiDevFlow capabilities shown

• Visual tree inspection to understand the current UI structure at runtime
• Live property editing to tweak UI properties while the app is running
• Blazor WebView debugging support
• Screenshots captured from the running app
• Terminal-driven workflow, where the agent can drive inspection and changes from the command line

End-to-end workflow demonstrated

The session focuses on the practical feedback loop of:

• Setting up MauiDevFlow in a new .NET MAUI project
• Letting an AI agent build and modify UI through code changes informed by live inspection
• Debugging issues using:
  • visual tree inspection
  • CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol)
  • application logs
• Repeating the full build → deploy → inspect → fix cycle live

Links shared in the video description

• MauiDevFlow (repo): https://github.com/dotnet/maui-labs
• MauiDevFlow docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/maui/developer-tools/devflow/
• Link hub: https://www.theurlist.com/MauiDevFlow

Presenters

• Jakub Florkowski
• Shane Neuville
• Gerald Versluis