Uno Platform - The UWP Bridge for iOS, Android and WebAssembly

What is the Uno Platform

The Uno Platform is a Universal Windows Platform Bridge that allows UWP-based code (C# and XAML) to run on iOS, Android, and WebAssembly. It provides the full definitions of the UWP Windows 10 October 2018 Update (17763), and the implementation of a growing number of parts of the UWP API, such as Windows.UI.Xaml, to enable UWP applications to run on these platforms.

Use the UWP tooling from Windows in Visual Studio, such as XAML Edit and Continue and C# Edit and Continue, build your application as much as possible on Windows, then validate that your application runs on iOS, Android and WebAssembly.

Visit our documentation for more details.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2017 15.5 or later, with:

  • Universal Windows Platform component installed

  • Xamarin component installed (for Android and iOS development)

  • ASP.NET/web component installed, along with .NET Core 2.2 (for WASM development)

To easily create a multi-platform application:

• Install the Uno Solution Template Visual Studio Extension
• Create a new C# solution using the Cross-Platform App (Uno Platform) template, from Visual Studio's Start Page.

See the complete Getting Started guide for more information.

For a larger example and features demo:

• Visit the Uno Gallery and Playground repository
• Try the WebAssembly Uno Playground live in your browser

Uno Features

• Supported platforms:
  • Windows (via the standard UWP Toolkit)
  • iOS and Android (via Xamarin)
  • WebAssembly through the Mono Wasm SDK
• Dev loop
  • Develop on Windows first using Visual Studio
  • XAML Edit and Continue for live XAML edition on each key stroke
  • C# Edit and Continue
  • Validate on other platforms as late as possible
• Cross Platform Controls
  • Control Templating
  • Data Templating
  • Styling
  • Rich Animations
• UWP Code Support
  • Windows Community Toolkit
  • MVVM Light Toolkit
  • Microsoft XAML Behaviors
  • Prism
  • MVVMCross (soon)
  • ReactiveUI
  • WindowsStateTriggers
  • Xamarin.Forms for UWP
  • Rx.NET
  • ColorCode-Universal
  • Any UWP project
• Responsive Design
  • Visual State Manager
  • State Triggers
  • Adaptive Triggers
• Platform Specific
  • Native controls and properties via conditional XAML
  • Any of the existing Xamarin iOS/Android libraries available

Live WebAssembly Apps

Here's a list of live apps made with the Uno Platform for WebAssembly.

• The Uno Platform Playground (Source)
• The Xaml Controls Gallery (Source)
• The Uno.WindowsCommunityToolkit, (Source)
• The Uno.Lottie, a sample that uses the AnimatedVisualPlayer (Source)
• The Uno.RoslynQuoter, a Roslyn based C# analysis tool (Source)
• The Uno.BikeSharing360 App, a Xamarin.Forms app running on top of Uno for WebAssembly (Source)
• The Uno.WindowsStateTriggers App, a demo of the Morten's WindowsStateTriggers (Source)
• The SQLite + Entity Framework Core App, a demo of the combination of Roslyn, Entity Framework Core, SQLite and the Uno Platform to manipulate an in-browser database.
• The Uno.WebSockets App, a demo of System.Net.WebSocket running from WebAssembly (Source)
• A mono-wasm AOT RayTracer

Let us know if you've made your app publicly available, we'll list it here!

Have questions? Feature requests? Issues?

Make sure to visit our FAQ, StackOverflow, create an issue or visit our gitter.

Contributing

There are many ways that you can contribute to the Uno Platform, as the UWP API is pretty large! Read our contributing guide to learn about our development process and how to propose bug fixes and improvements.