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Third-party cross-platform frameworks - .NET Tutorial
From the course: .NET UI Big Picture: Desktop, ASP.NET and Cross-Platform
Third-party cross-platform frameworks
- [Presenter] Before ending this chapter, let's take a moment to explore some active third party cross platform frameworks based on .NET that are worth considering. These frameworks compete with Maui, and offer similar benefits for building cross-platform applications. Unlike other frameworks such as Google's Flutter, these tools are interesting because they are .NET based, allowing us to stay within our comfort zone, and continue writing .NET code. To be clear, these are the same tools I talked about in the desktop chapter. Uno platform is an open source cross-platform application framework, which lets you write an application once in XAML and C sharp, and deploy it to any target platform. Those supported platforms include the three major desktop operating systems, Windows, MacOS, and Linux, plus, your application can also run on Android and iOS, and in the browser via web assembly. This means that we can leverage our existing knowledge of WIN UI and XML to build applications that…