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Just recently I have converted one of my UWP games to Uno Platform – The Minesweeper 10 and I wanted to share my experience. In just about 4 hours I was able to have it run cross-platform on iOS, Android and Web! The Challenge I have developed many apps and games using UWP. To date I have almost 5 million app downloads in the Microsoft Store which are played by thousands of users on daily basis. To keep my development going most of my games use Ads for monetization. Unfortunately for me, and developers like me, in February Microsoft announced that they would stop supporting Ads in UWP in June. This would mean that I would lose most of my income and that I needed to act fast. In addition, I regularly get emails from my users asking if my games are also available on Android and iOS. They were not, which always made me feel like I was missing out on a bigger opportunity to monetize the work I already did for UWP and will continue with WinUI. Moving Minesweeper and other UWP apps I made the decision to try to move my apps to Android and iOS as

Credit: This article originally appeared at https://blog.mzikmund.com/2020/01/custom-fonts-in-uno-platform/, written by Uno community champion Martin Zikmund. Custom fonts are super useful to make your application match company brand and to create vector-based font icons. Let’s take a look at how we can use custom fonts in UWP, Android, iOS, and WebAssembly with Uno Platform! Get a font (or create one) There are many on-line sources for free custom fonts, including: Google Fonts 1001 Fonts Font Squirrel Always make sure the license for the font allows packaging it with your application. We can also create a new font. This is especially useful for icon fonts – we can choose a custom set of vector-based icons, compile them into a font and use this for iconography in your app. Niels Laute wrote an excellent article on creating custom icon fonts for apps. I highly recommend it! For this article, I have chosen a font called Sniglet, which is available on Google Fonts: Font formats We require two different font formats – TrueType .ttf for UWP, Android and iOS, and Web Open Font Format (.woff) or its newer version (.woff2) for WebAssembly (WASM). All current versions of major browsers which support WASM support .woff2 as