Author: Uno Platform Team

How to Quickly Build Goodreads Author Page with Figma and Uno Platform

🕓 7 MINFor the second page of our Goodreads tutorial, we recreate the Author Page using Uno Platform’s open-source Plugin for Figma and Material Toolkit and generate the accompanying XAML code. Using the same approach, you can quickly build complete UIs for Uno Platform applications at lightning speed. Uno Platform brings a leading code generation plugin and […]

Uno Platform Placed in Early Majority per InfoQ .NET Trend Report 2022

🕓 4 MINInfoQ included Uno Platform in its latest report titled “InfoQ .NET Trends Report 2022”. Toolkit Labs is now the second developer tooling, open-source community project ported to web using Uno Platform, in addition to NuGet Package Explorer we announced last year. Why Is This Important? InfoQ is one of the most influential IT publications that […]

Recreating Amazon Goodreads App Home Page Using Material UI, Figma and Uno Platform

🕓 10 MINFigma is a great tool UX/UI designers use to create stunning interactive renders of UIs for a vast assortment of software applications. Uno Platform released a Figma plugin earlier this year to bridge the UI design to code handoff. This plugin allows users to convert their material-based UI designs to XAML code which can be […]

XAML Fundamentals for Web & Mobile: Advanced Binding Techniques

🕓 6 MINXAML platforms, including WPF, Silverlight, Uno Platform, and WinUI, implement the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) pattern to separate UI declaration from application logic. The View Model serves as an intermediary layer that exposes data and commands to the View without requiring direct knowledge of UI implementation details. Data binding enables this architecture by automatically synchronizing UI elements […]

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

🕓 5 MINWe 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

🕓 4 MINWe’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

🕓 4 MINThe 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

🕓 7 MINGrowing 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

🕓 3 MINWhile 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 […]