There's an updated version of Uno that includes enhancements to its Hot Reload UI feature along with full support for JetBrains Rider IDE. Uno can be used to write C# and XAML once to create an app that will run on Windows, Android, macOS and iOS devices, as well as in web browsers via WebAssembly.

The Uno Platform is an open-source platform for building single codebase native mobile, web, desktop and embedded apps with .NET.

The new version includes official support for Rider, with a new extension on the JetBrains marketplace. Rider is JetBrains' cross-platform .NET IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper. Developers could already develop Uno Platform applications with Rider, but the Uno team says the setup required manual steps which made this process rather tedious. The extension means Rider developers get an experience that is on par with that of Visual Studio and VS Code developers. In other words, this includes C# and XAML Hot Reload for Uno Platform apps and debugging, and Uno dotnet new templates are updated to support Rider.

The other main change is to the Hot Reload UI. This now comes with improvements to give more information on what the Hot Reload subsystem is doing. There's a new visual indicator that displays new information every time Hot Reload is triggered, and that works with all IDEs for all targets that the Uno Platform supports. The indicator can be disabled if you don't want it.

Every time a hot-reload is triggered, an indicator shows whether the changes were correctly applied and, if so, which C# classes or files have been modified.

More detailed information can be seen by clicking on the icon to show the history of changes.

The new release also includes two new UI controls (ItemsView and SelectorBar), and new font options, as well as support for SkiaSharp 3 Previews.

Uno 5.3 is available now.

More Information

Uno Website

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