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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)
1
Section 1: Getting to Know Uno Platform
4
Section 2: Writing and Developing Uno Platform Apps
9
Section 3: Test, Deploy, and Contribute

Building and running your first Uno Platform app

Since you are familiar with the structure of an Uno Platform app, we can get to building and running your first Uno Platform app! In this section, we will go over the different ways of building and running your app.

Running and debugging your app with Visual Studio on Windows

Running your Uno Platform app from within Visual Studio is exactly the same as running a regular UWP, Xamarin.Forms, or WASM app. To build and run the app on a specific device or emulator, you can select the corresponding head from the startup project dropdown. Note that depending on the selected configuration, target platform, and architecture, not every project will be compiled to the expected output and might even not get compiled at all. For example, the UWP project always targets explicit architectures and as such, will compile to x86 when selecting the Any CPU architecture. That means not all combinations of target architecture and project will compile...