Windows Community Toolkit Labs – Powered by Uno Platform
đź•“ 3 MINWe 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 MINIn 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 MINOpportunity 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 MINUno 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 MINWe’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 MINNowadays, 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 MINUno 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 […]
Implementing Chromecast with Uno Platform Applications
đź•“ 4 MINIf you’re building a video or audio application with Uno Platform, you can easily include Chromecast Support. In this article, using a simple XAML design with TextBox, Button, TextBlock and Listview we walk through the steps to cast a simple app to communicate with. Before we get started, there are a few initial steps to […]
LiveCharts Announces Support for Uno Platform
đź•“ 4 MINImagine combining LiveCharts2 (v2), the evolution of LiveCharts (v0), with the power of Uno Platform.  The ability to integrate beautiful, animated, automatically updated, cross-platform, object-oriented and easy-to-use charts opens many possibilities for data visualization-driven applications! The LiveCharts team has been working hard at expanding support for Uno Platform, and you can now integrate charts, maps, and gauges […]
