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Re:Uno: Create Beautiful Cross Platform .NET Apps Faster by jeremycarter on Thursday May 02, 2024 @01:14AM (#40232919)
I could be wrong, but it might be able to host native components or draw your own.
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Re:Uno: Create Beautiful Cross Platform .NET Apps Faster by francoistanguay on Thursday May 02, 2024 @09:29AM (#40236012)
Indeed, an Uno app is a native app, it uses UIKit on iOS, Views on Android, HTML on Web, except on Linux where you only have access to our Skia renderer.

Therefore you can embed native controls.

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Re:Uno: Create Beautiful Cross Platform .NET Apps Faster by KacharKhan on Thursday May 02, 2024 @10:25AM (#40236671)
"on Linux where you only have access to our Skia renderer" ... means what? Can I make a basic GUI app on Linux with Uno. If yes how ?
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Re:Uno: Create Beautiful Cross Platform .NET Apps Faster by francoistanguay on Thursday May 02, 2024 @10:43AM (#40236887)
Yes, on Linux it behaves similar to Flutter and draws directly to a Skia Canvas.

It used to have a dependency on GTK but no more since the 5.2 release.

There's just no notion of "native controls" that you can embed in an Uno Linux app like you could have if you wanted to embed a 3rd party native UIKit control on iOS.

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