The .NET MAUI component is available in Visual Studio 2022 17.8:

Note that the .NET 8 SDK is the default in the 17.8 Visual Studio release, as well as .NET 8 releases of .NET MAUI.

You can also download the .NET 8 SDK directly, followed by:

> dotnet workload install android
...
Successfully installed workload(s) android.

To verify installation:

> dotnet workload list
Installed Workload Id      Manifest Version                            Installation Source
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
android                    34.0.43/8.0.100                             SDK 8.0.100

Also see the Known Issues in .NET 8.

What's Changed

• Bump to dotnet/runtime@b17a34c8 8.0.0-rtm.23506.12 by @jonathanpeppers in #8404
• [profiled-aot] update profile for .NET 8 GA by @jonathanpeppers in #8428
• Bump to xamarin/monodroid@47bdaaa9 by @dellis1972 in #8433
• Bump NDK to r26b by @grendello in #8450

Full Changelog: 34.0.0-rc.2.479...34.0.43