Migrating Uno Platform Applications from Native to Skia
đź•“ 4 MINWith the release of Uno Platform 6.0, the platform has taken a significant leap forward in performance, developer experience, and rendering power. Featuring a unified Skia-based renderer and a new, more efficient hosting model, it’s the perfect time to upgrade your cross-platform .NET application and take advantage of these improvements. This blog covers the most […]
Building Cross-Platform Media Applications in .NET with MediaPlayerElement
đź•“ 4 MINIf you’ve ever built an app that needed to play video or audio across different devices, you know the struggle. The promise of rich media experiences is great, but the reality often involves wrestling with platform-specific APIs, struggling to maintain a consistent UI, and burning countless hours on asset management. For developers using Uno Platform, […]
Uno Chefs Recipe: Serving Up Custom Icons Without Template Headaches
đź•“ 4 MINLet’s talk UI. We all know that a clean, intuitive user interface is crucial. It’s the difference between an app people use and an app people love. And a massive part of that visual language? Icons. But let’s be real. Getting those icons exactly where you want them in XAML hasn’t always been a walk […]
Announcing Uno Chefs: Our Flagship Reference Application!
đź•“ 5 MINTL;DR: We’re thrilled to launch Uno Chefs, our brand-new flagship reference application, built from the ground up using the power of Uno Platform 6.0! Uno Chefs provides .NET developers with a comprehensive, production-grade example and learning ecosystem for building feature-rich, modern, cross-platform applications with Uno Platform. https://youtu.be/FZ4pwldN7LY What’s Cooking with Uno Chefs? 🧑‍🍳 At first […]
The Next Chapter: Uno Platform Studio and Uno Platform 6.0 ANNOUNCED!
đź•“ 14 MINNearly seven years after unveiling Uno Platform, we’re announcing our BIGGEST RELEASE EVER. A milestone that redefines developer productivity and marks the beginning of a whole new chapter in the evolution of Uno Platform With Uno Platform, you will build cross-platform .NET applications in record time. It provides a highly efficient Dev Loop driven by […]
Microsoft Contributes to Uno Platform: Dramatically Reducing Testing Time
đź•“ 3 MINTesting should be a developer’s safety net, not a bottleneck. Yet, we’ve all been there—waiting forever for test runs to complete, only to find out that some failures were quietly slipping through the cracks. So, we reached out to our friends at Microsoft—and they delivered. With their help, we transitioned our test infrastructure to Microsoft.Testing.Platform […]
Announcing Hot Design Public Beta – A Visual Designer for Cross-Platform Desktop, Mobile and Web Apps
đź•“ 5 MINAnnouncing Hot Design Public Beta – A Visual Designer for Cross-Platform Desktop, Mobile and Web Apps At .NET Conf 2024, we unveiled Hot Design, a Visual Designer that transforms how developers design, build, and iterate on their applications. Today, we’re excited to finally share it with the broader .NET developer community by launching Hot Design […]
Uno Platform 5.6 – 2.5x Perf Improvements, Turbocharged Hot Reload and expanded App Packaging
đź•“ 6 MINFor our first release of 2025, we’re doubling down on what matters most to you—productivity, performance, and seamless cross-platform development experiences. There are major advancements across the board, from faster Hot Reload and expanded app packaging support to significant runtime and memory optimizations. Performance improvements across Uno Platform include up to 10x faster execution for […]
Everything we shipped in 2024
đź•“ 7 MINAs 2024 wraps up, we are reflecting on all the updates and innovations we made this year, continuing the path of making .NET developers as productive as possible in creating beautiful cross-platform apps.  Our tallest task was launching Hot Design—the industry’s first visual designer for cross-platform .NET applications, which allows you to transform a running […]
