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Adding Google Maps to your Uno Platform-WASM App

Google Maps is the leading location data and visualization platform for the web, but the functionality of Google Maps extends well beyond its mobile app — if you are building a mobile, web, or desktop app and want to include location displays in any way, Google Maps offers  developer APIs that give access to Google’s geographical data.  Google Maps API allows you to display and leverage interactive maps to help users create itineraries, routes, and more. Its data also refreshes in real-time, meaning that maps you create with Google API will always be up to date for visitors.  Recently, a new Uno Platform user was looking to implement Google Maps into his Uno Platform WASM application but was running into some blockers since MapControl does not provide WASM support yet. Luckily, you can integrate Uno-WASM Web Applications with existing JavaScript components and it’s quite simple.   In this article, Martin Zickmund works through a step-by-step guide on how you can easily implement Google Maps into your WASM application.    Get the Google Maps API key You can follow any tutorial available on the web like here on how to get an API key via the Google Developer Console. It involves creating a

May 10, 2022
Implementing Lazy Loading Functionality in Uno WebAssembly Applications

No matter the purpose of your application or website, performance is essential to a great user experience. Slow loading apps and webpages will turn users away almost immediately. Fortunately, Lazy Loading is a technique used to optimize load time by only loading required content at first, and loading any remaining page content once the user needs it.  In this article, Johnny guides us through the steps required to implement the Lazy Loading functionality for ListView and Gridview controls in Uno Platform WASM applications. Follow Along with the Demo Project Source Code Lazy Loading Lazy Loading or incremental loading is a strategy to delay the loading of objects until they are actually needed. This can help reducing resources used by the application and increase loading times for the item collection, because only parts of the data are loaded initially. ScrollView For my usecase the trigger for loading more items is a certain scrolling threshold in the ListView and GridView control. To get the current scroll position we need to somehow access the ScrollView within the ListViewBase which is the base class for ListView and GridView. We will use the VisualTreeHelper class to get information about nodes in the visual tree and get a reference to the inner ScrollView of the ListViewBase var myScrollView = ExtendedVisualTreeHelper.GetFirstDescendant(myGridView); myScrollView.ViewChanged +=

April 26, 2022
Theme-Aware Splash Screen in Uno Platform WebAssembly

We’re always keeping an ear out for feature requests, bugs, and issues raised by the community so we can continue to better improve Uno Platform. So when @TopperDEL brought up a great question about the possibility to use theme-aware splash screens on Uno Platform Discord channel, Martin Zikmund was quick to offer a solution. Splash Screen A “Splash Screen” is the first image or page displayed when you first load your application, while the application is initializing. The splash screen remains visible until the first page of the application is ready to display. Unlike iOS, Android and Windows, WebAssembly does not yet support theme respecting splash screens. For those interested, the PR can be seen here. And now, with the stable release of Uno.Wasm.Bootstrap 3.3.1 it can be used in all Uno Platforms apps literally with a single line change! Here’s How To Do ItOpen the AppManifest.js file in the WasmScripts folder of the WASM project in any Uno Platform app solution and either set the splashScreenColor to transparent or delete the property entirely: var UnoAppManifest = { splashScreenImage: “Assets/SplashScreen.png”, splashScreenColor: “transparent”, displayName: “Theme-aware splash screen” } And voilà! The splash screen will now match the theme of your OS or browser! Note: To achieve the same effect in UWP/WinAppSDK the exact same change is required in the

April 12, 2022
Tutorial – Building a Kanban Style Todo App (code included)

… What better way to start learning a new technology than with a tutorial that includes all the sample code? When you finish, or fork, the tutorial you will end up with an application like this: Steven Giesel recently published a 5-part series documenting his experience building a Kanban-style Todo-app using Uno Platform for the first time. Follow along as he takes you through Uno Platform set-up, his thoughts on the platform, and finally a hands-on demonstration of creating a Todo app Kanban-style that runs in your browser, desktop, or mobile! For those of you who are new to Uno Platform, or looking to start using the platform, it allows for building Mobile, Desktop, and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML and there has never been a better time to get started. We’ve spent a significant portion of our recent releases (Uno Platform 4.0 and 4.1)  improving performance and features, and the tools now available to you to create amazing apps are paving new opportunities Part One – Introduction and Environment set up As a first-time user, Steven gets down to the basics of Uno Platform and covers the differences between the platform and .NET MAUI. With a basic understanding of the

March 31, 2022
NuGet Package Explorer Update: 30k users, 22% not on Windows. One new feature!

Last year our team contributed to the famous NuGet Package Explorer (NPE) open-source project by helping port its Windows-only application to Web using Uno Platform. The goal of the migration was to enable non-Windows users to also be able to use NPE on their preferred operating system. If you haven’t checked it out yet, please see https://NuGet.info To measure how effective we were in reaching the goal, and to help evolve NPE better, we also hooked NPE to .NET Foundation’s Azure Subscription using Azure Static Web Apps and Azure Front Door—a fantastic example of how the .NET Foundation can help and support its member projects. Today, 22% of developers using NuGet Package explorer are coming from non-Windows platforms (and from some surprising ones). Also, we discovered a new feature that needs enabling, which is what we are doing today too! Usage Statistics First, let’s look at the overall usage. The sample data is for the past 90 days to calculate weekly averages. We were incredibly happy to see nearly 30,000 Monthly Active Users for NPE!   Looking at telemetry, 22% of the users come from non-Windows operating systems – goal accomplished! An interesting insight is that even on Windows, a lot

March 24, 2022
Uno Platform Weekly Live Coding

Among our many features and initiatives, one that we want to highlight to our community is our weekly live-coding session that happens every Tuesday. Uno Platform Live Coding sessions are hosted by Uno Platform CTO Jérôme Laban and for roughly 60 minutes, Jérôme whiteboards and codes live side projects with Uno Platform, demonstrates new features, and troubleshoots different issues and bugs that arise. The Live coding sessions allow Uno Platform users to witness the thought process of a senior software engineer solving a problem and how it is then implemented into code. Users can join live and ask questions at any time and clarify concepts they may be unsure of. If you have any topic requests, questions that you want to be answered, feel free to reach out to @jlaban. Make sure you sign up for notification when Jérôme goes live on his Twitch channel – (re)starting next week March 8th, when he is back from vacation. Even heroes deserve to take a break! About Uno Platform For those new to Uno Platform – it allows for creation of pixel-perfect, single-source C# and XAML apps which run natively on Windows, iOS, Android, macOS, Linux and Web via WebAssembly. Uno Platform

March 2, 2022
XAML Fundamentals for Web & Mobile: ListView

It’s 2022 and XAML on the Web is now as relevant on Mobile and Web as it traditionally was on Windows Desktops. Between 2005 and 2013, Beatriz Stollnitz authored a series of blogs that covered a variety of XAML fundamentals and became a treasure trove of resources for developers. As you can imagine much of the information has since become outdated and most of the code samples no longer work out of the box with the latest version of Visual Studio. Last year, Nick Randolph, an Uno Platform contributor, revived the almost 10-year-old WPF blog series on his .NET Travels, and we’re picking up where he left off. In this continued version of XAML Basics, we added a focus on Web and Mobile where XAML is now very applicable. We carry on the efforts of making the adjustments needed to bring each control up to date as well as provide equivalent examples that work to include XAML cross platform support via Uno Platform and WinUI to Web, iOS, macOS, Android and even Linux! ListView A sizable benefit which came during the early days of WinRT XAML was the refreshed ListView and GridView controls. Microsoft engineered these controls to be smooth

February 22, 2022
A Deep Dive Into Uno Extensions

Our Uno Platform 4.0 release brought with it a lot of updates and fixes to the platform but most importantly it also allowed us to unveil a series of productivity tooling and extensions that drastically help bring your app to market faster. One of those tools introduced was Uno Extensions, simply put, it allows you get started without having to write code from scratch, getting you to a fully functional project in minutes and saving you months of development time. Microsoft has extracted a host of capabilities outside of ASP.NET and made them available through Microsoft Extensions – covering hosting, logging, configuration, etc. In turn, Uno Platform Extensions are based on those Microsoft Extensions. To get a better understanding of Uno Extensions and how you can utilize them in your workflow, MVP and Uno Contributor Nick Randolph gave us a glimpse of Uno Extensions in action during his UnoConf 2021 session. Listen as he walks you through creating a host and registering services to more complex extensions like using the navigation extensions to navigate between pages views and the application. This session previews only a few of the available extensions but there are additional Uno extensions that we haven’t covered

February 9, 2022
Adaptive Styling, Layouts & Controls (Part 3)

References, Tools, Frameworks & Operating System used. Items Links Windows 10 or 11 Download Windows 10 (microsoft.com) Visual Studio 2019 or 2022 Visual Studio: IDE and Code Editor for Software Developers and Teams (microsoft.com) Uno Platform Project Template Uno Platform Solution Templates – Visual Studio Marketplace Mac OS macOS Monterey – New Features – Apple Uno Platform Documentation Uno Platform documentation UWP Documentation Windows Controls and patterns – Windows app development – Windows apps | Microsoft Docs In the previous articles of this series, I looked into data persistence, back up and restoration across devices using SQLite as a database on one drive as a backup and restoration facilitator. This article will be more UI focused. It will discuss ways you can visualize the invoice and client data using adaptive styling on UI elements and layouts. I’ll be addressing two key areas in UX development: 1. Styling 2. Layouts & Controls 1. STYLING This is a blueprint that defines design standards for a collection of UI elements and interactions. In the demo Uno Platform application, I made use of ThemeResource and Merged Dictionaries to create styles for individual UI elements, dark and light themes. In the Microsoft XAML space, ThemeResource

February 7, 2022

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