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Creating Cross-Platform C# Applications with Uno Platform

You're reading from   Creating Cross-Platform C# Applications with Uno Platform Build apps with C# and XAML that run on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and WebAssembly

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801078498
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marcel Alexander Wagner Marcel Alexander Wagner
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting to Know Uno Platform
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Uno Platform FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Writing Your First Uno Platform App 4. Section 2: Writing and Developing Uno Platform Apps
5. Chapter 3: Working with Forms and Data 6. Chapter 4: Mobilizing Your App 7. Chapter 5: Making Your App Ready for the Real World 8. Chapter 6: Displaying Data in Charts and with Custom 2D Graphics 9. Section 3: Test, Deploy, and Contribute
10. Chapter 7: Testing Your Apps 11. Chapter 8: Deploying Your Apps and Going Further 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Making your app look like it belongs on each platform

So far, everything in the app has used the default styling provided by Uno Platform. Because Uno Platform bases everything on UWP and WinUI, our apps have been styled based on the Fluent Design system as this is the default on Windows. This is fine if we want our apps to look this way, but what if we want our apps to use the default styles for Android or iOS? Fortunately, Uno Platform has a solution for us. It provides libraries in the Material and Cupertino styles that we can apply to our apps. While these are native for Android and iOS devices, respectively, they can be used anywhere.

We'll now use the resources these libraries provide to apply the Material Design styling to the Android version of our app, and the Cupertino styles to the iOS version.

Applying Material styles to the Android version of the app

Let's get started:

  1. We'll start by adding a reference to the Uno.Material package to the...
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