XAML Fundamentals for Web & Mobile: Advanced Binding Techniques

đź•“ 5 MIN XAML platforms, from WPF and Silverlight to Uno and WinUI, support the MVVM pattern by separating the View described declaratively in a XML dialect with the application logic in code. The VM in the name represents the View Model; this is the code responsible for exposing functionality to which the View can bind without having […]

Uno Platform at Hacktoberfest 2022 – Prizes and How to Participate!

đź•“ 5 MIN We are pleased to participate in this year’s Hacktoberfest, and we are making it a fun one! This year’s event, in addition to code contributions, emphasizes non-code contributions such as documentation, blogs, and advocacy. We are following suit and are accepting meaningful documentation and advocacy contributions. Hacktoberfest will gather tens of thousands of developers worldwide […]

Uno Platform for Figma Preview 3 – Improved Flexibility, Performance, and UX

đź•“ 4 MIN We’re pleased to announce the release of the third preview of our Figma plugin, a faster and more efficient way to produce your applications! The Uno Platform for Figma plugin now includes parameters that accept user overrides, shape support, and auto-layout optimization. If you haven’t tried it yet, here’s how to go from Figma design […]

Uno Platform 4.5: Uno Islands, 4 New Controls, Linux Framebuffer and MUCH more

đź•“ 4 MIN The fifth release of 2022 brings innovation across all pillars of Uno Platform: UI, Toolkit, Extensions, and Tooling.   In the process of this release, we implemented 230 features and bug fixes, as well as welcomed four new contributors to our open-source project. Thank you! For those who want to jump into it, please update […]

A Space-Shooter Game on the Web with C#, WASM, and Uno Platform

đź•“ 7 MIN Growing up as a 90s kid, I played many space shooter games, which gave me a profound love for arcade-style games. This prompted the idea of building my own game, only this time; I wanted my game to run on the web! The challenge was, how? This article shares some insights on my choice of […]

Beautify your Apps with Lottie for Uno Platform

đź•“ 3 MIN While having animations in our apps is always a treat, implementing them without a hiccup can sometimes be challenging. Thankfully, Lottie enables us to very easily include beautiful and performant vector animations in our cross-platform apps. Even better yet, since Lottie animations are exported as JSON files, file sizes remain small and your animations can […]

Replicating Outlook UI with Uno Platform for Figma

đź•“ 7 MIN It is safe to say as developers, we are always up for learning new tools that could improve our skill set and allow us to reduce time spent on the design-to-developer handoff. Imagine a tool that would not only speed up production but also allow those with little design experience to quickly lay out everything […]

Windows Community Toolkit Labs – Powered by Uno Platform

đź•“ 3 MIN We are happy to announce Microsoft is using Uno Platform for their Toolkit Labs. This new project will enable developers to experiment and contribute ever so easily to the Windows Community Toolkit. You can read the full announcement at Microsoft blogs. Toolkit Labs is now the second developer tooling, open-source community project ported to web […]

Top 50 Reasons to use Uno Platform – 2022 edition

đź•“ 4 MIN In October 2019 we published a top-50 list of reasons to use Uno Platform. Since then, we’ve had 18 releases so, it’s about time we update the list. Here is the new top-50 list, in no particular order – all of them are great.  There are lots of new list additions while retaining some of […]