Need Help with White Labeling a MAUI App from Existing Project

[satish-dnv]

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for guidance on how to white label a MAUI app from an existing project. Is there a specific process or packages available for this purpose? I have an existing app project and would like to customize it with different branding or themes for different clients.
I found this article (https://xamgirl.com/white-labeling-in-xamarin-forms-applications/) which gives some ideas about how to white label a Xamarin app. However, I'm facing conflicts with the AndroidManifest and Info.plist files. How can I configure different manifest files according to the app? Any help or suggestions on how to achieve this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

[developer9969]

We white label our app and all you have to do

• all the views and viewmodels in a separate Maui class libraries
• create one app for each client that references the shared class library
• the only thing that changes is your style
• All the colors and other styles will be in the main project
• Use resource files for each client

I think above gives u an idea

[satish-dnv]

Thank you!

[kdbhalala]

I have more than 12 Clients that I have to create 12 apps in maui project right.
That is a bit over work I guess compared to Xamarin forms.
if you follow above tutorial it is a simple solution.
@developer9969

[developer9969]

@kdbhalala that is one way , there are other ways to do that - you could have a single app and pipeline changing things when building the app.. etc.. or when you do a build you can run a script that does things...

[saamerm]

@satish-dnv I don't know if you're still looking for a solution, here's some suggestions from personal experience:

• You can use different GitHub branches for each white label brand. That way you can just pull the changes into each brand branch from the main/develop branch, and it works pretty well.
• However, Shell Scripting is my personal favorite. I just published an article and recorded a video that you can access for free on how to use shell scripting for white labeling with MAUI applications.

I have explained it in a lot of details in my article, but in essence, in your MAUI app’s folder/directory create a new file brand1.sh with this:

grep -rl 3071CF . | grep -v "brand1.sh" | xargs sed -i "" -e 's/3071CF/CE102C/g'
grep -rl BeAware . | grep -v "brand1.sh" | grep -v ".git" | xargs sed -i "" -e 's/BeAware/Brand1/g'
grep -rl com.tfp . | grep -v "Info.plist" | grep -v ".git" | grep -v "brand1.sh" | grep -v "MauiProgram" | grep -v "MainActivity" | grep -v "WebAuthenticatorActivity" | grep -v "AppDelegate" | grep -v "AccessTokenService" | grep -v "LoginPage" | xargs sed -i "" -e 's/com.tfp/com.brand1/g'
cp -a brand1/. BeAware

Create a new directory brand1, and put the images you want to replace in the right sub-directories/sub-folders using the same file name, format & dimensions. Then run the shell script using sh brand.sh

[satish-dnv]

@saamerm Thank you for suggestion. I'll have a look into that article.

[ewerspej]

I wrote an article on the topic as well called "White labeling .NET MAUI apps" which you may find useful. This works well for smaller projects and few clients. If you have many clients, you may want to use CI/CD pipelines to provide the required information, e.g. which client to build for, by passing in compile constants.