Programmer's Guide for MAUI - RFID SDK

Overview

This tutorial will aid you creating a new Xamarin Android application project using Visual Studio. The tutorial and project is using following requirements

  1. Minimum SDK Version - API 26: Android 8 (Oreo)
  2. Target SDK Version - API 34: Android 14regt
  3. Development environment .NET Framework 8.0
  4. Visual Studio 2022 or greater
  5. Maui Targeted Framework: net8.0-android

Installation

  1. Either install Visual Studio, or modify your existing installation, and install the .NET Multi-platform App UI development workload with its default optional installation options:

Create The Project

Start Visual Studio 2022 and select File > New > Project >.Net Maui App Follow the on-screen steps in Visual Studio

Select Project Name, Location etc. as shown in the image below.

Select .net version, In this demo using .net 8.

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Enable the RFID SDK in project

Right click Dependencies in solution explorer -> Add Project References -> Browse and select the MauiJavaSdkBinding.dll file as shown in the images below

Make Sure API3_LIB-release.aar also present in same folder


Now MauiJavaSdkBinding.dll reference will be added inside Dependencies -> Assemblies



Your project is now ready with RFID SDK for Maui (Android) Module

Import RFID API3 package

After completing the steps in Adding dependency

  1. Open MainPage.xaml.cs in editor
  2. Add using Com.Zebra.Rfid.Api3 in MainPage.xaml.cs

Your project is now ready to use the RFID SDK for Maui (Android)