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For 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.
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The author page of the Goodreads app can be broken down into four sections:
Top Navigation Bar
Author Profile
List of authored books
Bottom Navigation bar (Which can be reused from our Home page tutorial)
The Standard Page Template provided with the Uno Toolkit already has a pre-set NavigationBar implemented; the generated XAML will correctly invoke a native NavigationBar with a leading icon when exported to your project.
Start by adding the Standard Page Template to your canvas and remember to Detach Instance. Use this opportunity to rename the page template to “Author Page.”
In the layers panel, navigate to the Navigation Bar and toggle off Trailing Icon
(Author Page > Body > Page> Navigation Bar)
Open the Leading Icon tab; nested inside is the icon. Select it and swap instances to Keyboard_arrow_left
Select the Title, edit the text to “Author Profile” and change the Text Style to Uno Semantic/Title Medium in the text properties
You can also select a NavigationBar component from the assets list should you need it; however, always ensure the NavigationBar component is placed within the Page layer and outside the Content.Scrollable layer.
The Author’s Details section is a horizontally oriented Auto layout with an Image aligned to the left with a height that hugs the source image to be rendered and another vertically oriented Auto layout. This vertically oriented auto layout consists of Two text blocks representing the Authors Name and follower count, respectively, and a button used to follow or unfollow the Author. The Author’s Bio section is an Auto layout with a single text block child object used to house the Bio of the Author.
Profile Image (Image Component)
Author Name & Follower Count (Text or TextBox)
Follow and More Button (Button and Icon Button)
Author Bio (Text or TextBox)
Start by adding an Image component to your canvas, then adjust its frame properties so that its corners are rounded to 100 and its Fixed Horizontal/Vertical values are set to 100.
Add Text to the canvas and type out the author’s name. Change the text style to Uno Semantic/Title Medium in the Text properties. Duplicate the Text, drag it below the first one, and type out the follower count.
Open the Components library and drag a Button onto your canvas. Start by toggling off the icon and editing the button text to “Follow Author.” Round the corners to a value of 4 and change both the button and text color.
Next, add the Icon Button to your canvas, swap the icon instance to the “more_Horizontal” icon, and change the button color.
Finally, add text for the biography, and change the text style.
Select both Texts (Author name and Follower count) and Shift + A to frame them together and create an Auto Layout. (Author Frame)
Select both buttons and Shift + A to put them into an Auto Layout. (Buttons Frame)
Select the Text frame and the newly created button frame, and again put them into an Auto Layout. (Button and Author Frame)
Add an Auto Layout to the bio. (Bio Frame)
Select the Button & Author Frame as well as the image and create an Auto Layout. (Image + button + Text Frame)
Finally, select Image + button + Text Frame and the Bio Frame and add another Auto Layout. (Author Card)
The Author’s books section is a card list consisting of card items customized to mimic the look of the book items on the Goodreads Author Profile page. This section will follow a similar process as we did for the author card above.
Add an image component to your canvas
Add Text to represent the book Title and Author
Add a Rating Control from the components list
Add another line of Text for the date
Create an Auto Layout for the four components above by framing them together (Shift + A). Make sure your Auto Layout is set to a Vertical direction.
Add a Button and frame the button with the Auto-Layout created above to create another Auto Layout.
Select the frame encompassing all of your components, selct your image, and create another Auto-Layout once again.
Select your final frame that nests all of your components, and add a stroke to the bottom of the frame.
Once you have duplicated your book detail card a few times, the end result should look like below.
Below is the generated XAML of our design produced by the Uno Platform plugin, which can easily be copied and exported to your preferred IDE to be further worked on.
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Proper XAML generation depends on usage of the proper templates and components, please read the New design guidelines before starting a new project;
If you are new to Uno Platform and the Uno Figma plugin, following our step-by-step guide is the best way to set up your environment and get started.
Project created and authored by Paula Aliu
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