Introducing the app
The app we'll build in this chapter is called Dashboard. It's an application that displays the current activity within the business divided by department. This isn't something that would be available to all staff, but to allow us to focus on the features and areas of interest in this chapter, we'll not concern ourselves with how access is controlled. The real version of this app would have many features, but we're going to only implement three:
- Displaying current financial information
- Displaying live operational information
- Showing where the trains currently are in the network
As this application will be used by staff members in their offices, it will be available on desktop (via UWP) and in a web browser (with a WASM version).
Creating the app
We'll start by creating the solution for the app:
- In Visual Studio, create a new project with the Multi-Platform App (Uno Platform) template.
- Give the...
