App Builder in 2025: A Year of AI and Platform Growth

Alongside the UI components powered by Ignite UI, we pushed forward with improvements aimed at helping teams build, scale, and maintain applications faster and with greater confidence.

This year, we delivered more than ten major capabilities and platform enhancements, each designed to reduce friction in common development workflows and improve overall app quality, we will go thorugh each of them in a bit. As the low-code space increasingly shifts toward AI-driven experiences, one of the most important milestones for App Builder was the introduction of AI Chat bringing contextual, conversational assistance directly into the app-building process.

Rather than treating AI as a standalone feature, our goal throughout 2025 was to integrate it where it makes the most impact: helping users move faster, make better decisions, and reduce repetitive effort.

Reflecting on the Year

2025 was defined by steady progress. Across nine major releases, we focused on delivering value incrementally expanding App Builder’s capabilities while keeping the platform predictable and extensible for both low-code and pro-code teams.

As we look ahead, our direction remains clear:

• Deeper AI-driven workflows
• Stronger alignment between design-time and runtime experiences

All with the same goal: empowering development teams and business leaders to deliver applications that support real business growth.

Key Platform Enhancements Delivered in 2025

Below is a snapshot of some of the most impactful updates introduced this year. For full details, you can explore the individual release blogs published throughout 2025.

Application Building, Designing & Navigation

• Multiple-actions support, including conditional logic, nesting, and reordering
• Child-level routing, enabling more flexible and scalable app navigation
• Centralized Design-Time Notifications for Faster Validation and Debugging
• Input Validations for Forms, Grids and Inputs.
• Indigo UI Kit for Figma.

Data & Querying

• Complex Query-building experience, combining:
  • A visual Query Builder component
  • A specialized variable for efficient data interaction
  • A dedicated .NET server-side library, designed to be integrated directly into API projects for executing user-defined queries
• Remote Data Operations.

Deployment & Integration

Azure DevOps integration, supporting more streamlined CI/CD workflows

Toolbox & Components

New components added to the Toolbox:

• Hierarchical Grid (with Load on Demand)
• Carousel component
• Query Builder for Angular Advanced Filtering

Grid Enhancements

Significant additions to grid functionality, including Automatic value binding for column edit templates; Summary toggles; Initial advanced filtering; Multi-column headers and collapsible Column groups; Master-detail support; Empty grid templates; Loading indicator templates;

Together, these improvements strengthened App Builder’s ability to handle real-world, data-heavy applications without sacrificing flexibility.

Wrapping up

The roadmap timeline for 2025 reflects a year of consistent delivery and growing platform maturity. Each feature released was part of a broader effort to make App Builder more intelligent, more adaptable, and better suited for modern application teams.

As 2025 comes to a close, I’d like to thank our community customers, partners, and everyone exploring low-code with App Builder. Your feedback and engagement continue to shape the platform in meaningful ways.

We’re already building on this momentum, and 2026 will bring even more focus on AI-powered experiences, extensibility, and developer productivity. Follow us on our social channels and stay tuned for what’s next.

Here’s to another year of building smarter applications.

Social channels:

• Discord channel.
• GitHub discussions.
• Roadmap
• YouTube channel

We always value your feedback – feel free to share your thoughts on how we can keep delivering value. You can reach me at zkolev@appbuilder.dev