Uno Platform in 2022: Highlights and Milestones 🎄✨

As the year comes to a close and many of us take time to pause during the holiday season, I wanted to reflect on what 2022 meant for Uno Platform. It’s been a year filled with milestones, steady releases, and a growing community that continues to make open source collaboration so rewarding.

Based on the official Uno Platform 2022 in Review, here’s a look back at the highlights that shaped this year.

A Year of Productivity and Progress 🚀

Uno Platform’s vision has always been to make multi-platform development as productive as possible for .NET and Windows developers. In 2022, the team delivered on that goal with:

• Seven releases — averaging one every 7.5 weeks — ensuring developers get fixes and features quickly.

• Alignment with WinUI, .NET, and Visual Studio 2022 releases, plus improvements to the VS Code plugin for XAML developers.

• The growth of Uno.Extensions, offering pre-built recipes for common needs like navigation, localization, and reactive programming.

• A stronger design-to-development handoff through integration with Figma, reducing friction between designers and developers.

• The team nearly doubled in size to 18 people, securing long-term sustainability for the project.

Release Highlights of 2022 🛠️

Uno Platform shipped significant updates throughout the year. Some standout features included:

• Uno Platform 4.1 → WebAssembly Memory Profiler, Android 12 support, XAML Style Merging.

• Uno Platform 4.2 → Skia+GTK OpenGL Renderer, Visual Studio 2022 preview support.

• Uno Platform 4.3 → Documentation updates, new sample app, WinUI 3 MarkupExtension improvements.

• Uno Platform 4.4 → Skottie integration, high-fidelity rendering, WebAssembly threading support.

• Uno Platform 4.5 → Uno Islands, new WinUI controls, Linux framebuffer scaling.

• Uno Platform 4.6 → Support for .NET 7, Android 13, SVG, and WebAssembly Bootstrap 7.0.

Expanding Features for Developers 🌟

• UI Features: New controls such as PipsPager, BreadcrumbBar, PagerControl, and RefreshContainer. Existing controls like TickBar were aligned with Microsoft’s official WinUI source for full parity.

• Non-UI Features: Expanded APIs to support scenarios such as gamepad input on all platforms, clipboard access, and ambient light detection directly within the browser.

• Figma Tools: Major progress with the Uno Figma plugin (support for overrides, color roles, auto-layout, and performance improvements). The Uno Material Toolkit also added Material Design 3 support with new font styles and components.

• Uno Toolkit: High-level controls for responsive, multi-platform apps, featuring SafeArea, AutoFocus, StatusBar extensions, and NavigationBar enhancements.

• Uno Extensions: Improvements in navigation, authentication, splash screens, and performance — all designed to reduce boilerplate and speed up development.

Learning Resources and Articles 📚

The Uno Platform blog in 2022 featured content for both beginners and experienced developers. Top articles included:

• Uno Platform Learning Resources for Beginners

• XAML Fundamentals Series

• Intro to Figma for .NET Developers

• Building a Login Page with Uno and Figma

• Intro to LiteDB for .NET Developers

In addition, documentation was expanded to include more working samples, ranging from authentication and SQLite to SignalR and custom cameras.

Community Growth 🌍

2022 was also a year of community milestones:

• Over 2 million NuGet downloads.

• 7,300+ GitHub stars and 37 new contributors, bringing the total to 239.

• Growth on social platforms: 12k Twitter followers and 1k+ Discord members.

• New learning resources, including Skye Hoefling’s book Getting Started with WinUI 3 and Uno Platform.

Uno Platform’s team also contributed back to other projects like .NET and SkiaSharp, further strengthening the open source ecosystem.

Looking Ahead to 2023 ✨

The review closed with optimism: more resources, deeper integrations, expanded documentation, and a growing community of contributors. Uno Platform has firmly established itself as a leading choice for multi-platform .NET development, and the momentum going into 2023 looks strong.

Final Thoughts 🎄💡

Writing this post over the Christmas holiday gave me the chance to reflect not only on Uno Platform’s achievements but also on the spirit of open source collaboration. 2022 demonstrated that productivity, innovation, and community can coexist — and Uno Platform continues to prove that every contribution, big or small, makes a meaningful impact.

Here’s to carrying that same energy into 2023. 🚀