Release

Our first release of 2023 is ready and brings over 230 new features and bug fixes, most notably introducing a new project template, improving performance across all platforms supported by Uno Platform and Shared Fonts. The New Project Template is especially exciting as it helps us set up a wave of innovation for 2023, where we plan to make you super productive in building with .NET. Sign up for our newsletter to stay informed about exciting new releases coming VERY soon. Especially exciting for us is the share of contributions we had from the community during this release; thank you all for contributing! New Project Template Uno Platform 4.7 brings an updated solution template without using a Shared project. In our 2023 Community Survey, we’ve heard the community feedback about this aspect of our templates being commonly confusing. Thank you for bringing this forward so vocally! Here’s a high-level look at a solution: In this updated solution template, the “Shared Project” is replaced by a regular cross-platform library containing all user code files. This also implies that package references can be included in a single location without the previous need to include those in all project heads. As a bonus,

Today we are announcing support for .NET 7. Our sixth release of 2022 is a massive step towards creating the most productive platform for building .NET-based applications which run everywhere.  Our end-to-end application development story is increasingly converging. Of course, using only one of the parts, such as our core UI work, will speed up your cross-platform development. But the productivity gain resulting from using all Uno Platform pieces – across UI, Figma, Extensions, and Toolkit is significantly more extensive than the sum of its individual productivity boosts.   Let’s dig into the highlights: .NET 7 support, Library Assets, SVG Support, Android 13, the new WebAssembly Bootstrap 7.0, and ASP.NET Core Hosting Project. For a detailed list of over 200 PRs, please head to our release notes on GitHub.  .NET 7 and Visual Studio 17.4 Support We’ve been closely monitoring and contributing to .NET 7 preview releases and keeping compatibility in lockstep with its advancement. Given our compatibility with .NET 7 RC 2 and RC 2 quality overall, we can confidently say Uno Platform will support .NET 7 on November 8th, when it launches.  .NET 7 is often described as ‘the fastest .NET yet.’ We couldn’t agree more. Developers are using

Over 90 improvements in this release! Uno Platform 4.4 is our 4th release in 2022, keeping us on a once-in-six-weeks rapid release schedule we aim for. The release packs numerous UI and performance improvements across all target platforms. First, on the UI side you’ll be able to produce beautiful fluid animations on .NET Android, .NET iOS and Skia-based targets, as well as increase high-fidelity renderings of all your texts on Skia-based targets. Second, on the performance side we are including support for the most recent WebAssembly advances available in .NET 7 – Wasm Threading and Exception handling. Lastly, we also enabled new input scenarios via GamePad API support and improved the default project templates. In total we have implemented and resolved over 90 new feature requests and issues. Let’s unpack it together. 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. It offers Figma integration for design-development handoff, and a set of extensions to bootstrap your projects. Uno Platform is free and Open Source (Apache 2.0) and available on GitHub. Fluid Animations via Skottie Integration We already blogged

.NET 6 Mobile RC1 Support As of last week’s release of .NET 6 Mobile RC1, Uno Platform is now following the updates to ensure that you have access to the latest features provided by the .NET runtime. As per Microsoft’s announcement, the .NET 6 Mobile APIs are now considered stable for iOS, Android, and Mac Catalyst. This enables applications and libraries to be developed without having to deal with any breaking changes in future .NET Mobile releases. As Uno Platform takes a dependency on dotnet runtime, this is important as we can stabilize our own support for iOS, Android and mac Catalyst targets. Since our previous release about six weeks ago, we also made a batch of changes to fix the support for localization of iOS, macOS and Catalyst apps, based on the new behaviors of .NET 6. In total there were over 190 new features and fixes completed, around Geolocation, focus and keyboard management, Android/Skia/WebAssembly performance, and more. For those who like stats – that’s about 6 closed PRs per business day; we are definitely picking up velocity even more. As always, to upgrade to the latest bits and use .NET 6 Uno Platform app templates, you’ll need to