The year Uno Platform Inc. shipped AI, secured Funding, and partnered with Microsoft. 2025 was a transformational year for both the broader software development industry and Uno Platform. Uno Platform Inc. is pleased with how Uno Platform Inc. addressed several long-standing gaps in the .NET ecosystem while also staying on top of AI trends - and, in doing so, helped redefine what modern cross-platform .NET development means. Uno Platform Inc. grew its team, grew the community and adoption of Uno Platform - lets revisit the highlights. 2025 at a glance. | Milestone | Date | Key Highlight | | Uno Platform 6.0 + Studio GA | May 7 | Unified Skia rendering, Hot Design GA | | Uno Platform 6.1 | Jul 17 | CommandBarFlyout control | | Seed Funding ($3.5M CAD) | Aug 12 | Led by AQC Capital, Scott Hanselman | | Uno Platform 6.2 | Aug 26 | ~100 issues closed, template editing | | Uno Platform 6.3 | Oct 9.NET 10 RC1 preview, VS 2026 ready | | Microsoft Collaboration | Oct 14 | Joint .NET for Android, SkiaSharp co-maintenance | | Uno Platform Studio & Uno Platform 6.4 | Nov 11 | Day-0 .NET 10, agentic development | | Hot Design Agent + 2 MCPs | Dec 9 | First agentic visual designer for .NET & MCP Servers | Uno Platform 6.0 and Uno Platform Studio GA. Nearly seven years after unveiling Uno Platform, Uno Platform Inc. shipped what Uno Platform Inc. called its "biggest release ever." Uno Platform 6.0 wasn't just an incremental update, it was a complete re-engineering of the platform and the general availability of Uno Platform Studio which delivered a long-requested Visual Designer for cross-platform .NET development! The headline feature was its new unified Skia rendering engine. Previously, Uno Platform used different rendering approaches across platforms. With 6.0, Uno Platform Inc. unified everything under Skia - delivering consistent, hardware-accelerated rendering across ios, Android, webassembly, windows, macos, and linux. Uno Platform Studio goes GA. After over a year in development, Uno Platform Inc. declared Uno Platform Studio generally available. The suite transforms how .NET developers build cross-platform apps. Runtime visual designer - pause your app, edit the UI, see changes instantly. Hot reload. Instant XAML and C# changes with visual confirmation. Generate production-ready XAML from Figma designs. New controls. * MediaPlayerElement - Cross-platform video playback using platform-specific backends * WebView2 - Chromium-based web content embedding with JavaScript interop Hot summer - rapid iteration and Funding. July: Uno Platform 6.1. Two months after 6.0, Uno Platform Inc. shipped Uno Platform 6.1 with over 300 pull requests merged. The highlight was CommandBarFlyout a floating contextual toolbar with support for keyboard accelerators and the StandardUICommand API. Hot Design received significant updates including a new thickness editor for visual margin/padding adjustments and improved property toolbox indicators. August 12: $3.5M CAD seed round. Funding milestone. Uno Platform Inc. completed its seed round - $3.5 million CAD (approximately $2.54M USD) - bringing total investment to $6.5M CAD. The round was co-led by AQC Capital and Desjardins Capital, with participation from Scott Hanselman, Microsoft's VP of Developer Community. August 26: Uno Platform 6.2. Just five weeks after 6.1, Uno Platform 6.2 landed with nearly 100 community-reported issues closed. Key improvements included the SKCanvasElement API for unified Skia/native rendering and WebView2 lifecycle alignment with WinUI. Microsoft Collaboration, .NET 10, and AI. October 9: Uno Platform 6.3. Uno Platform 6.3 closed over 128 issues and positioned Uno Platform Inc. for the upcoming .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2026 releases. October 14: Microsoft .NET team collaboration. This was a milestone Uno Platform Inc.'d been building toward for years. Uno Platform Inc. announced an official technology collaboration with Microsoft's .NET team. Uno Platform Inc. were honored by keynote mention alongside the likes of RedHat, AMD, Canonical and others. .NET for Android. Six weeks of joint engineering for Android 16 (API-36.1) support. Co-maintaining the graphics engine that powers Uno Platform. WASM multithreading. Contributing to .NET runtime for this highly-requested feature. November 11: the AI release. Timed with .NET Conf 2025, Uno Platform Inc. shipped Uno Platform 6.4 and Studio 2.0 - bringing agentic development to cross-platform .NET. Its CTO Jerome Laban had a dedicated session where he officially unveiled Uno Platform Studio 2.0 and demonstrated its AI capabilities - from modernization, app creation from prompt or design, and more. Day-0 .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2026. Uno Platform has supported new .NET versions on launch day for years, and .NET 10 was no exception. Uno Platform Studio 2.0: agentic development. Studio 2.0 introduces three AI-powered capabilities that transform how you build apps: Hot Design Agent. The first agentic visual designer for cross-platform .NET. An AI assistant embedded in the visual designer that can read layout hierarchies, suggest UI updates, reorganize components, and apply styles - all within a running app. Uno Platform MCP. Model Context Protocol server connecting AI agents to its complete knowledge base - documentation, APIs, and best practices. App MCP. Runtime service exposing visual tree, data context, and control properties to AI agents across all platforms. December 9: Uno Platform Studio - official webinar & celebration. Uno Platform Inc. closed off the year with a dedicated webinar for Uno Platform Studio, as well as to launch a 7-day .NET Holiday Challenge with $10,000 in prizes. Release notes. Key announcements. Get started. Summary & next steps. Uno Platform Inc. surprise ourselves every day with how far Uno Platform has come. Uno Platform Inc. put the platform and its newest AI tools through daily tests and share its sample apps and prompts on X. It's absolutely incredible what you can accomplish in just a few steps. Uno Platform Inc. hope you can find time this holiday season to give it a try.

Announcing Uno Platform dev.to challenge. This one's for the builders who've been itching to put AI and cross-platform .NET to work on something real. Uno Platform Inc. is teaming up with DEV to launch something fun (and a little bit spicy) for .NET devs: the AI Challenge for Cross-Platform Apps. Your mission: Use Uno Platform and its AI-powered tooling to build a real app that runs on mobile, desktop, and WebAssembly from a single .NET codebase - and show off what modern cross-platform looks like with AI in the loop. Key details. * Challenge window: November 19 - December 7, 2025 * Winners announced: December 18, 2025 * Prizes: $3,000 USD total, split across three themed prompts * Stack: .NET + Uno Platform + AI tooling (Hot Design Agent, App MCP, Uno Platform Docs MCP, etc.) That easily covers the full challenge window (Nov 21 - Dec 7), so you can build and submit your entry without ever hitting a paywall. Uno Platform x DEV challenge. Uno Platform Inc. is inviting developers to build native cross-platform apps from a single shared codebase using .NET and Uno Platform's AI-powered tools. Whether you're exploring Uno Platform for the first time or leveling up your .NET skills, this challenge is a chance to: * Ship an app that runs everywhere (iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, WebAssembly). * Try Uno Platform Studio, the productivity boost .NET developers need to design, build, and ship modern apps. DEV is where developers go to build in public, share what they're learning, and show off what they're building. Pair that with Uno Platform's cross-platform + AI tooling, and you've got the perfect setup for a .NET challenge. 3 ways to win. WOW factor. Build something visually stunning and fun - fast. Create a coffee shop - style home screen (or any theme you like) that runs across iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, and WebAssembly - all from a single Uno Platform codebase. * Start your project manually or kick it off using App MCP or Hot Design Agent for AI-assisted setup * Use sample or mock data - menus, images, orders, or anything that brings your concept to life. * Add simple interactivity such as lists, buttons, or animations. * Focus on creativity, performance, and smooth cross-platform experience Tip: Keep it fun and visual, your goal is to make people say "Wow." Hot Design showcase. Experience the next generation of live app design using Hot Design Agent, your AI co-designer inside Uno Platform Studio. * Open your project in Visual Studio or VS Code and launch Hot Design Agent * Pick any existing app or UI concept you like - mobile, desktop, or web * Let the agent help you design or adjust the layout in real time while the app is running * Modify controls, bindings, and data visually - the agent assists while you stay in control * Use Hot Reload to keep your IDE and design surface perfectly synchronized Please note you'll need to share a images and/or recordings as part of this submission. Focus on: Showing how AI and live visual design come together to make building beautiful, cross-platform .NET apps faster, easier, and more intuitive. AI acceleration. Demonstrate how contextual AI, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI Codex accelerate app development using Uno Platform App MCP and Uno Platform Docs MCP. * Build a simple cross-platform Uno Platform app using a public or sample API like JSON Placeholder, or free public APIs * Use App MCP to connect to your running app for structured, context-aware AI interactions * Ask Uno Platform MCP for grounded, official guidance as you build * Leverage GitHub Copilot/OpenAI Codex/Cursor etc. to generate and refine your code * Produce an app that runs on as many targets as possible - mobile, desktop, or web Please note you'll need to share a images and/or recordings as part of this submission. Focus on: Demonstrating how contextual intelligence and modern AI coding assistants help you build faster and smarter with Uno Platform. Build to win. The Uno Platform x DEV AI Challenge for Cross-Platform Apps runs from November 19 to December 7, 2025. Submissions are open now. All participants who submit a valid, qualified entry will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile. Ready to turn your idea into a cross-platform .NET app? Join the Uno Platform x DEV AI Challenge Start building with Uno Platform today and show the community what AI + .NET can do across every screen.