Creating your first app

There are different ways of creating your project, so we will start with the most common one, using Visual Studio.

Creating your project with the Uno Platform solution templates

The process of creating an Uno Platform app project is the same as for other project types in Visual Studio. Depending on the extensions and project templates installed, you will be greeted by the list of options in Figure 2.1 when filtering for Uno Platform. Note that for Figure 2.1, only the Uno Platform Solution Templates extension was installed:

Figure 2.1 – List of Uno Platform project templates in the new project dialog

The easiest way to get started with Uno Platform is using the Multi-Platform App (Uno Platform) project template as this contains all the necessary projects to build and run Uno Platform apps for every platform.

Let's start creating your app by selecting the Multi-Platform App (Uno Platform) project type and click...