Accessing platform features in .NET MAUI - .NET MAUI Tutorial

Welcome back to another .NET MAUI Beginner Series video. I'm James Montemagno, a product manager on the developer community team here at Microsoft. And today, we're continuing our journey, learning how to build beautiful native cross-platform, desktop and mobile apps with .NET MAUI. Now, so far we've done a lot in our application. We've learned about what is in a file new project. We started to build a user interface in XAML. We added data binding in MVVM architecture pattern. And we even did some navigation. Now next up is how to access Native API features. Now, when we think about Native APIs, things that are on iOS, Android, Mac and Windows, these are things that are platform specific. Now you can access these directly inside of C-Sharp thanks to the underlying systems of iOS and Android for .NET and Windows App SDK and WinUI 3. Now what's great about .NET MAUI is that the team abstracted a whole bunch of common platform APIs into a single API for to use it as a developer. This…