MAUI: Add-Migration -> Startup project targets platform 'Android'. The Entity Framework Core .NET Command-line Tools don't support this platform

Question

I want to make an EFCore migration for a MAUI Blazor app. But when using Package Manager or CLI i get an error because startup project targets Android. I do not see this error in the tutorials i am following.

Answer 1

Migrations cannot be used inside MAUI project directly. The solution is to put the DbContext and Models in a separate Class Library project.

• Create Class Library Project and create inside it the Models and the DbContext.
• Reference the class library project from the MAUI project.
• Add the DbContext in MauiProgram.cs and reference the class library as the Migrations assembly.

When adding migrations, reference the project and startup project as follow:

dotnet ef migrations add Initial --startup-project ..\YourClassLibrary --project ..\YourClassLibrary

Credits to Asaad Iaaly: https://github.com/AssadIaaly/MauiSqlite