Adding Haptic Feedback / Vibrations to your MAUI app

The basics

By default, the goal of MAUI is to simplify the developer's work by providing an ultra-simple API. It can't get simpler than this:

// Simple click
HapticFeedback.Default.Perform(HapticFeedbackType.Click);

// Longer click
HapticFeedback.Default.Perform(HapticFeedbackType.LongPress);

Platform considerations

Most of the time, platforms allow the user to disable Haptic Feedback, here are where to find these settings:

🤖 Android

In Android, there is a setting often found under Settings > Sound & vibration > Vibration & haptics.

In addition, you'll need to add the permission for VIBRATE in your AndroidManifest.xml :

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE" />

🍏 iOS

In iOS you'll need to navigate to Settings > Sounds & Haptics, and enable "System Haptics"

More articles to come, covering the platforms (Android, iOS and Windows) in-depth.

Code sample

Here is a simple Bindable singleton, for easy demonstration.

namespace Maui_Developer_Sample.Pages.Vibrations.BindableHapticFeedback;

public class BindableHapticFeedbackSimple : BindableObject
{

    #region Singleton

    private readonly static Lazy<BindableHapticFeedbackSimple> LazyInstance = new Lazy<BindableHapticFeedbackSimple>(() => new BindableHapticFeedbackSimple());

    public static BindableHapticFeedbackSimple Instance => LazyInstance.Value;

    #endregion

    private BindableHapticFeedbackSimple()
    {
        VibrateClickCommand = new Command(VibrateClick);
        VibrateLongPressCommand = new Command(VibrateLongPress);
    }

    private void VibrateClick() => HapticFeedback.Default.Perform(HapticFeedbackType.Click);

    private void VibrateLongPress() => HapticFeedback.Default.Perform(HapticFeedbackType.LongPress);

    public Command VibrateClickCommand { get; }

    public Command VibrateLongPressCommand { get; }
}

Check out my MAUI playground for a full sample:

Results

You should feel a very faint vibration, even the "LongPress" is not strong. It's normal. These are meant to add a little extra to your User Experience, not to be used as a massage gun ...

For advanced patterns like waveform control, intensity, or cross-platform abstraction, native implementations will be necessary. I’ll cover that in a future post.

Stay tuned 🙂