This is a submission for the AI Challenge for Cross-Platform Apps — WOW Factor.
🌟 What I Built
I built a cross-platform app called Smart Café, a coffee-shop themed application that mimics the experience of entering a premium café menu on your device. The goal was to create a UI that feels warm, modern and immersive — an app where the user enjoys looking around even before clicking anything.
The entire app runs from a single Uno Platform .NET codebase and maintains the same visual quality, animations and responsiveness across multiple platforms.
📽 Demo
🔗 GitHub Repository:
📱 Screenshots / Video:
- Android screenshot
- Windows screenshot
- WebAssembly screenshot
(upload screenshots directly into DEV below this section — judges love visual proof!)
💻 Cross-Platform Magic
The app runs on:
- Android
- Windows
- WebAssembly (Browser)
I wrote the UI once using Uno Platform, and it compiled and executed beautifully on every device with no redesign needed. The single codebase approach exceeded my expectations — especially how pixel-perfect the layout stayed across screens.
🎮 Interactive Features
To make the experience fun and immersive, I added:
- A coffee-shop style home screen with a welcoming banner
- Animated menu cards for each drink
- A "Create Your Brew" slider to select roast level and quantity
- A favorites button with live state
- Smooth navigation transitions between pages
It feels less like browsing a menu and more like visiting an actual café — which is exactly the emotion I wanted.
💥 The Wow Factor
The standout feature is the animated drink menu grid. Each drink card expands smoothly with a soft scale animation and displays ingredients, price and "brew style" options. Testers literally reacted with:
“Wait — this is built from the same codebase and runs everywhere?”
That moment of surprise is what I wanted to achieve — a UI that is fast, beautiful and expressive while staying completely cross-platform.
Thanks to Uno Platform for making it possible to bring strong visuals to .NET apps without writing different UIs per platform. I had a lot of fun building this — and even more fun watching people say “Wow!” while using it. ☕✨
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