The State of WebAssembly – 2024 and 2025
🕓 13 MINWelcome to our annual State of WebAssembly (wasm) article. In this article, I’ll start off with a review of what happened around WebAssembly in 2024 and then look at what I think might happen in 2025. Table of Contents Before I jump in though, I’d like to highlight a couple of points to make this […]
Everything we shipped in 2024
🕓 7 MINAs 2024 wraps up, we are reflecting on all the updates and innovations we made this year, continuing the path of making .NET developers as productive as possible in creating beautiful cross-platform apps. Our tallest task was launching Hot Design—the industry’s first visual designer for cross-platform .NET applications, which allows you to transform a running […]
Navigating Hot Design’s UI
🕓 5 MINHot Design is here, bringing a streamlined and intuitive interface for developers to design, build, and refine their apps more efficiently. In this article, we’ll walk you through the key components of the Hot Design UI—Toolbox, Elements, Properties Window, and the Canvas—to explain how each part contributes to a seamless developer experience. Available in Beta […]
Build an advent calendar app your friends can actually use
🕓 2 MINNeed a last-minute holiday project? Let’s build an advent calendar that your friends and family can actually use, regardless of what devices they have. https://youtu.be/z1IscX_wcWg In this blog, part of the C# Advent Calendar 2024, our very own Agnes Zitte walks you through building a fun and interactive advent calendar app using Uno Platform. With […]
Announcing Uno Platform Studio featuring Hot Design
🕓 7 MINWe are proud to introduce Uno Platform Studio, a suite of productivity tools featuring Hot Design, a next-generation Visual Designer for .NET cross-platform apps! To make every developer as productive as possible, Uno Platform Studio aids developers through the various parts of the development lifecycle, from design handoff to continuously designing and building the app: […]
Uno Platform 5.5 – Automated App Packaging, .NET 9 RC2, OpenGL, WebView2 and more
🕓 10 MINEach release, we don’t just improve—we aim to revolutionize your development experience. For this release, we focused on drastically reducing the time and complexity required to package and distribute your cross-platform applications, in addition to a plethora of other productivity and performance features. Our new App Packaging automates the process of bundling binaries, assets and […]
Handling Millions of Data Points in Cross-Platform .NET Applications
🕓 9 MINEver wondered how to visualize millions of datapoints without your app breaking a sweat? In this tutorial, we’ll tackle a common challenge faced by many developers: how to effectively visualize massive datasets across different platforms without sacrificing performance. We’ll explore a solution that allows you to render millions of data points smoothly, whether you’re working […]
Bridging the Gap Between MVU and MVVM
🕓 3 MINState management patterns like MVU and MVVM have long been staples in application development, but both come with trade-offs that can limit scalability and maintainability in complex projects. Model-View-Update eXtended (MVUX) a new pattern in Uno Platform, bridges the gap between these two approaches, offering a more streamlined, asynchronous-friendly alternative. If you’ve ever struggled with the […]
Uno Platform 5.4: Perf Improvements and 290+ Issues closed
🕓 3 MINWe are introducing over 290 new additions in the Uno Platform 5.4 release, with a strong focus on performance and resolving issues for our paid clients. Some of you might not know this, but we sustain the Uno Platform open-source project through enterprise support, as described in this blog. This release primarily addresses critical client […]