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Creating Cross-Platform C# Applications with Uno Platform

By : Matt Lacey, Marcel Alexander Wagner
Book Image

Creating Cross-Platform C# Applications with Uno Platform

By: Matt Lacey, Marcel Alexander Wagner

Overview of this book

Developers are increasingly being asked to build native applications that run on multiple operating systems and in the browser. In the past, this would have meant learning new technologies and making multiple copies of an application. But the Uno Platform allows you to use tools, languages, and APIs you already know from building Windows apps to develop apps that can also run on other platforms. This book will help you to create customer-facing as well as line-of-business apps that can be used on the device, browser, or operating system of your choice. This practical guide enables developers to put their C# and XAML knowledge to work by writing cross-platform apps using the Uno Platform. Packed with tips and practical examples, this book will help you to build applications for common scenarios. You'll begin by learning about the Uno Platform through step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, before moving on to creating cross-platform apps for different lines of business. Throughout this book, you'll work with examples that will teach you how to combine your existing knowledge to manage common development environments and implement frequently needed functionality. By the end of this Uno development book, you will have learned how to write your own cross-platform apps with the Uno Platform and use additional tools and libraries to speed up your app development process.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting to Know Uno Platform
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Section 2: Writing and Developing Uno Platform Apps
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Section 3: Test, Deploy, and Contribute

Test tools beside Uno.UITest

Uno.UITest is not the only tool you can use to write automated tests for your Uno Platform app. In this section, we will cover writing UI tests for the UWP head of your project using WinAppDriver and Selenium and writing unit tests for the UWP head of the project.

Testing the UWP head of your app with WinAppDriver

At the time of writing, Uno.UITest does not support running the tests against the UWP head of your app. However, you might also want to run UI tests against the UWP version of your app. Luckily, WinAppDriver and Appium allow us to achieve this. WinAppDriver is a tool developed by Microsoft that allows developers to simulate input to Windows apps, including UWP apps. While WinAppDriver allows you to interact with Windows apps, it does so by starting a web server locally and allows interaction with apps by communicating with WinAppDriver through a web-based protocol. To make the development process easier for us, we will use Appium.WebDriver...