Uno Platform 3.9: .NET 6 Mobile, VS 2022, WinUI, plus XAML trimming for 50% Wasm AOT size reduction
🕓 6 MINThe newest release brings support for .NET 6 (for iOS, Android, mac Catalyst and macOS), support for Visual Studio 2022 templates, WinAppSDK 0.8.1, Focus management updates, a XAML Trimming feature to reduce the size of WebAssembly apps by nearly 50% as well as many other improvements and bug fixes. WinUI Everywhere In order to follow […]
How to Build Multi-Platform Apps with Uno Platform and Blockchain
🕓 6 MINMost of you are probably familiar with Cryptocurrency (think Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.) and its mythical powers. However, it is safe to say that a smaller subset would be familiar with the technology that makes cryptocurrencies work and exist in their current form. In this two-part series (you’ll find a link to Part 2 at the […]
NuGet Package Explorer is now a Web App powered by Uno Platform
🕓 3 MINA few months ago, we looked for a challenge. That tweet generated a lot of responses. The most vocal of them was – make NuGet Package Explorer (NPE) run on the Web. To date, NPE has been downloaded over 250,000 times, so this was exactly the challenge we looked forward to. The stakes were high […]
Uno Platform, Visual Studio 2022 and Hot Reload
🕓 < 1 MINVisual Studio 2022 Preview 1 has just been released and we are already working to make sure Uno Platform is along for the ride. Alongside the significantly improved solution load time experience, the C# Hot Reload feature has also been improved, and it’s working great with our Skia/GTK heads (other platforms will come soon)! Take […]
Uno Platform 3.8 – New WinUI Calendar, Grid controls, 2x performance, new Linux scenario and more
🕓 6 MINThe new 3.8 release ports additional WinUI controls and layouts, such as the often-requested CalendarDatePicker and CalendarView controls, to all Uno-supported platforms getting us one huge step closer to the #WinUIEverywhere vision. Also, the new release brings up to 2x performance improvements in some scenarios, realized from the new Grid implementation as well as DependencyObject […]
An Introduction to UI Testing for Uno Platform Applications
🕓 6 MINIntroduction This step-by-step tutorial will take you through setting up your first unit test with Visual Studio and Uno Platform. If you are 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 is free […]
New Uno Platform Docs Launched
🕓 < 1 MINToday we rolled out our new documentation site – https://docs.platform.uno – with improved readability, full-text search, and a tutorial section with a number of additional how-to articles. This has been consistently a key issue in feedback from the Uno community and with these steps we are starting to deliver improvements to our docs. No […]
Announcing: uno-check – a health check for your Uno Platform dev environment
🕓 2 MINWe try to make getting into Uno Platform as easy as possible, but it can be challenging to get set up for multi-platform development. Nobody wants to be fighting with their environment when they could be coding instead. For that reason, we’ve just released the uno-check dotnet command-line tool. When you run uno-check on your […]
GUI Innovations Controls Helper for Uno Platform
🕓 < 1 MINOne of Uno Platform fans and Microsoft MVPs, Pete Vickers, has created a way of generating the XAML to create controls in your code. This add-in will allow you to create Uno Platform Controls in your XAML file. Simply right-click in your XAML file and choose your control. Once generated, you can further tune them […]
