How to Link .NET MAUI iOS App with a Native watchOS App and Build Both Together?

Question

I have developed a .NET MAUI app for iOS and separately created a native watchOS app in Xcode. Since .NET MAUI does not support watchOS, I am struggling with two main issues:

1. How to link my iOS MAUI app with the watchOS app?
2. How to build both apps together in a single project so they can be deployed as one?

What I Have Done:

• Built a .NET MAUI iOS app
• Created a native watchOS app in Xcode
• Explored WatchConnectivity for communication, but unsure how to implement it in MAUI
• Tried manually bundling the watchOS app, but no success

Issues:

• How can I establish communication between my MAUI iOS app and my native watchOS app?
• How can I bundle both apps together so that they are built and deployed as one package?
• Are there any workarounds since MAUI does not natively support watchOS?

Expected Outcome:

• A proper way to integrate and communicate between the two apps
• A method to build both iOS and watchOS apps together so they can be deployed as a single unit

Any guidance, references, or workarounds would be really helpful. Thanks!

Answer 1

basically you will create watch os project with Xcode. then you add this project as a target to Maui Xcode project.

see this thread:

https://github.com/dotnet/maui/discussions/1144