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Replicating Outlook UI with Uno Platform for Figma

🕓 7 MINIt is safe to say as developers, we are always up for learning new tools that could improve our skill set and allow us to reduce time spent on the design-to-developer handoff. Imagine a tool that would not only speed up production but also allow those with little design experience to quickly lay out everything […]

Windows Community Toolkit Labs – Powered by Uno Platform

🕓 3 MINWe are happy to announce Microsoft is using Uno Platform for their Toolkit Labs. This new project will enable developers to experiment and contribute ever so easily to the Windows Community Toolkit. You can read the full announcement at Microsoft blogs. Toolkit Labs is now the second developer tooling, open-source community project ported to web […]

Top 50 Reasons to use Uno Platform – 2022 edition

🕓 4 MINIn October 2019 we published a top-50 list of reasons to use Uno Platform. Since then, we’ve had 18 releases so, it’s about time we update the list. Here is the new top-50 list, in no particular order – all of them are great.  There are lots of new list additions while retaining some of […]

Uno Platform 4.4 – Wasm Threading+Exception Handling, Rich Animations, GamePad APIs and more

🕓 7 MINOver 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 […]

XAML Fundamentals for Web and Mobile: Three-level List/Detail Pattern

🕓 5 MINOpportunity instead of obsoletion Users increasingly expect an intuitive way to drill into your data source and inspect the contents of an individual element. It’s often necessary to leverage a pattern that consistently connects the intentioned person behind the screen to the result they expect. Likewise, a nontrivial part of modernizing your .NET app not […]

Skottie Now Available for SkiaSharp

🕓 3 MINUno Platform contributed support for the Skottie component in SkiaSharp (a .NET binding for Skia). This addition now allows for any application using SkiaSharp to render Lottie animations and provide engaging user experiences on all the platforms already supported by Uno Platform. This new SkiaSharp preview update also provides support for Uno Platform WinUI targets […]

Uno Platform Docs – 30% More Content and Updated UI

🕓 4 MINWe’ve been reimagining the full scope of our Uno Platform docs to provide an improved user experience in every way. Not only did we add roughly 30% more content (if you missed it, that’s 8 Great Gatsby’s worth of new documentation!), but our technical documentation has also been revised and redesigned to improve readability. These changes […]

Building a Login Page with Uno Platform and Figma

🕓 8 MINNowadays, the majority of mobile, web, and desktop applications require some form of authentication to access their features and content. The intent for developers is always to create a simple page with an input field for email/password, and a login button that still reflects the brand’s image. However, it can start to get complicated once […]

Uno Platform 4.3 – Figma Plugin, Uno Extensions, Material Design 3 Support, New Sample App and more

🕓 6 MINUno Platform 4.3 is here! The focus of this release was on enhancing our Figma plugin which generates your app XAML directly from Figma designs, as well as advancing Uno Extensions to help bootstrap your apps faster.   When looking at overall productivity and speed at which applications need to be developed, organizations need to consider […]