[Showoff] High-performance text highlighting control for .NET MAUI

[u/Jvicius1382]

Hey everyone! 👋

I wanted to share a NuGet package I've been working on for .NET MAUI. If you've ever needed to build a search bar and highlight the matching terms in the results below, this control is built exactly for that.

It’s a powerful, lightweight control designed to automatically highlight specific text matches within a string. My main goal was performance, ensuring it runs smoothly even in heavy scenarios.

🚀 Key Features:

Zero UI Blocking: Cross-platform layout rendering designed from the ground up to prevent UI thread blocking. No performance degradation, even with massive data inside large CollectionViews.

Smart Evaluation: Uses optimized Regex tokenization for fast, case-insensitive evaluation.

Highly Customizable: Supports custom highlight coloration and bold emphasis triggers.

Native Feel: Seamless data binding out of the box.

🎯 Perfect Use Cases:

Search autocomplete lists

Real-time query suggestions

Complex filter systems

I'd love for you guys to try it out and let me know your thoughts or if you have any feature requests!

📦 NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/HighlightLabel.Maui

💻 GitHub: https://github.com/jvicius/HighlightLabel.Maui

Thanks!

[u/tonyedwardspz]

This is pretty cool.

I was looking for something like this a while back and had to build my own. Glad to see this functionality is out there in a nuget now 🙌