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 […]
XAML Fundamentals for Web and Mobile: Three-level List/Detail Pattern
đź•“ 5 MIN Opportunity instead of obsoletion Users increasingly expect an intuitive way to drill into your data source and inspect the contents of an individual element. It’s often necessary to leverage a pattern that consistently connects the intentioned person behind the screen to the result they expect. Likewise, a nontrivial part of modernizing your .NET app not […]
Skottie Now Available for SkiaSharp
đź•“ 3 MIN Uno Platform contributed support for the Skottie component in SkiaSharp (a .NET binding for Skia). This addition now allows for any application using SkiaSharp to render Lottie animations and provide engaging user experiences on all the platforms already supported by Uno Platform. This new SkiaSharp preview update also provides support for Uno Platform WinUI targets […]
Uno Platform Docs – 30% More Content and Updated UI
đź•“ 4 MIN We’ve been reimagining the full scope of our Uno Platform docs to provide an improved user experience in every way. Not only did we add roughly 30% more content (if you missed it, that’s 8 Great Gatsby’s worth of new documentation!), but our technical documentation has also been revised and redesigned to improve readability. These changes […]
Building a Login Page with Uno Platform and Figma
đź•“ 8 MIN Nowadays, the majority of mobile, web, and desktop applications require some form of authentication to access their features and content. The intent for developers is always to create a simple page with an input field for email/password, and a login button that still reflects the brand’s image. However, it can start to get complicated once […]
Uno Platform 4.3 – Figma Plugin, Uno Extensions, Material Design 3 Support, New Sample App and more
đź•“ 6 MIN Uno Platform 4.3 is here! The focus of this release was on enhancing our Figma plugin which generates your app XAML directly from Figma designs, as well as advancing Uno Extensions to help bootstrap your apps faster.  When looking at overall productivity and speed at which applications need to be developed, organizations need to consider […]
