Uno Platform 5.3 Enhances Hot Reload UI -- Visual Studio Magazine

Uno Platform 5.3 Enhances Hot Reload UI

By David Ramel
07/24/2024

Uno Platform 5.3 shipped with enhanced Hot Reload UI functionality, full support for the Rider IDE from JetBrains and more.

The Uno Platform helps developers use a single codebase to create native apps across mobile, web, desktop and embedded systems with its open source project that the company says is the only offering that enables single-codebase development for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux, targeting all OSes and browsers. The Uno Platform dev team has also collaborated with Microsoft on various projects and has sometimes implemented new tech before Microsoft itself.

**[Click on image for larger view.]** Uno Playground *(source: Uno Platform).*

Hot Reload, the ability to instantly see the effect of code changes in a running project, is an essential tool for developers, and its functionality is being enhanced to provide better insights into its operations in the update, Uno Platform said. A new visual indicator will display information each time Hot Reload is triggered, which helps monitor changes during development. This indicator is enabled by default in debug mode for applications created using the template.

The feature is available on all IDEs and targets supported by Uno Platform, excluding WinAppSDK, which already has its own indicators. The indicator's position is adjustable using a handle, and it can be disabled via the EnableHotReload(false) parameter in App.xaml.cs.

Each time a hot-reload occurs, a toast notification appears, showing whether the changes were applied successfully and specifying which C# classes or files were modified.

Other highlights of the release include full, official support for the JetBrains Rider IDE, akin to what is available for Microsoft's flagship IDE, Visual Studio, and the open-source-based, cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor.

"We are excited to announce the official support for Rider, with a new extension on the JetBrains marketplace," the company said in a July 23 announcement. "So far developing Uno Platform applications with Rider was possible, but admittedly the setup required manual steps which made this process rather tedious. Starting this release, the development experience Rider developers have is on par with that of Visual Studio and VS Code developers."

Among more than 350 enhancements, the company also listed:

.NET support update for .NET 7 and .NET 9 preview
Simplified versioning
New default font on all platforms
Variable fonts support
SkiaSharp 3 preview support
WinUI ItemsView control support
WinUI SelectorBar control support

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David Ramel is an editor and writer at Converge 360.

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