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dotnet new templates for Uno Platform

The Uno Platform provides a set of command-line templates to create cross-platform applications.

To install the templates, type the following:

dotnet new install Uno.ProjectTemplates.Dotnet

If you need to determine the parameters available for a template use dotnet new [templatename] -h.

Important

Installing the templates is done per dotnet CLI version. Meaning that the templates are installed for the version shown by dotnet --version. If you tried to use the templates with a version different than the one you used for installing, you'll get "No templates found matching: ''." error.

This is common when using global.json that alters the .NET CLI/SDK version. Specifically, it's common for the UI Test template.

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Uno Platform Blank Application for WinAppSDK - WinUI 3

This template can be used to create a blank multi-platform application for iOS, Android, WebAssembly, macOS, Mac Catalyst, Linux, and Win32 Desktop which uses the new WinUI 3 APIs.

This template uses a single project head for iOS, Android, macOS, and Mac Catalyst. It requires Visual Studio 2022.

Find detailed instructions here.

A basic example:

dotnet new unoapp -o MyApp

Note

It is possible to create a .NET 7 template by using -f net7.0 parameter.

More articles on WinUI 3:

Uno Platform Blank Application (UWP)

This template can be used to create a blank multi-platform application for iOS, Android, WebAssembly, macOS, Skia/GTK (Windows, Linux, macOS), and Skia/Wpf (Windows 7 and 10), using the UWP

A basic example:

dotnet new unoapp-uwp -o MyApp

A more advanced example that will not generate the android and macOS heads:

dotnet new unoapp-uwp -o MyApp -android=false -macos=false

Uno Platform Blank Application (WinAppSDK - WinUI 3, Xamarin)

This template can be used to create a blank multi-platform application for iOS, Android, WebAssembly, macOS, Linux, and Win32 Desktop which uses the new WinUI 3 APIs.

Find detailed instructions here.

A basic example:

dotnet new unoapp-winui-xamarin -o MyApp

More articles on WinUI 3:

Uno Platform Blank Application (UWP, .NET 6)

.NET 6 Mobile support is currently in Preview, following Microsoft's support status. As of Uno 4.1, .NET 6 Mobile Preview 13 and above is supported with Visual Studio 2022 17.2 Preview 1. Previous releases of Visual Studio are not supported.

This template can be used to create a blank multi-platform application for iOS, Android, WebAssembly, macOS, Mac Catalyst, Skia/GTK (Windows, Linux, macOS), and Skia/Wpf (Windows 7 and 10).

This template uses a single project head for iOS, Android, macOS, and Mac Catalyst. It requires Visual Studio 2022.

A basic example:

dotnet new unoapp-uwp-net6 -o MyApp

A more advanced example that will not generate the android and macOS heads:

dotnet new unoapp-uwp-net6 -o MyApp --Mobile=false

Uno Platform Extensions

Uno Platform provides an enhanced template to build your application with less effort.

See this documentation for more information.

Uno Platform Blank library

This template can be used to create a blank library. With this type of library, Skia and WebAssembly do not need to be built separately, but cannot be differentiated.

A basic example:

dotnet new unolib -o MyUnoLib

Uno Platform Blank Cross-Runtime library

This template can be used to create a blank cross-runtime library, when platform specific code needs to be created for Skia and WebAssembly.

A basic example:

dotnet new unolib-crossruntime -o MyCrossRuntimeLibrary

Uno Platform Blank Prism Application

This template is specializing in the creation of a Prism Library enabled blank application.

A basic example:

dotnet new unoapp-prism -o MyApp

A more advanced example which will not generate the android and macOS heads:

dotnet new unoapp -o MyApp -android=false -macos=false

Uno Platform Uno.UITest library

This templates creates a project for creating and running UI Tests based on Uno.UITest.

Considering you've created an application as follows:

  • dotnet new unoapp -o MyApp

To create a UI Tests library:

  • Create a folder name MyApp\MyApp.UITests
  • In that folder, run dotnet new unoapp-uitest

This will automatically add the new project to the existing solution.

For additional information about UI Tests creation, visit the Uno.UITest documentation.

Uno Platform WebAssembly support for Xamarin.Forms

This template is built to enhance an existing Xamarin.Forms application with the Uno Platform WebAssembly support.

To use it:

  1. Create a Xamarin.Forms project
    1. Check Place project and solution in the same directory
    2. Check Windows (UWP)
  2. Using a VS Developer Command Prompt, navigate to the folder containing the solution 
    dotnet new wasmxfhead
  3. Open or Reload the solution in Visual Studio
  4. Set the Wasm project as the startup project
  5. Open the Nuget Package manager for the Wasm project and update the Uno.Xamarin.Forms.Platform project to the latest stable package
  6. Run the app using F5 (with the Visual Studio debugger), and you are good to go!

Uninstalling the templates

Using a command line or terminal, run the following command:

dotnet new -u Uno.ProjectTemplates.Dotnet

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