Avalonia is a cross-platform UI framework for dotnet, providing a flexible styling system and supporting a wide range of platforms such as Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and WebAssembly. Avalonia is mature and production ready and is used by companies, including Schneider Electric, Unity, JetBrains and Github.
Considered by many to be the spiritual successor to WPF, Avalonia UI provides a familiar, modern development experience for XAML developers creating cross-platform applications. While Avalonia UI is similar to WPF, it isn't a 1:1 copy, and you'll find plenty of improvements.
For those seeking a cross-platform WPF, we have created Avalonia XPF, enabling WPF applications to run on macOS and Linux with little to no code changes. Avalonia XPF is a commercial product and is licensed per-app, per-platform.
To see the status of some of our features, please see our Roadmap.
You can also see what breaking changes we have planned and what our past breaking changes have been.
Awesome Avalonia is community-curated list of awesome Avalonia UI tools, libraries, projects and resources. Go and see what people are building with Avalonia!
See our Get Started guide to begin developing apps with Avalonia UI.
The Avalonia Visual Studio Extension contains project and control templates that will help you get started, or you can use the .NET Core CLI. For a starter guide see our documentation.
JetBrains Rider now has official support for Avalonia.
Code completion, inspections and refactorings are supported out of the box, for XAML previewer add https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugins/dev/14839 to plugin repositories and install AvaloniaRider plugin.
Avalonia is delivered via NuGet package manager. You can find the packages here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Avalonia/
Use these commands in the Package Manager console to install Avalonia manually:
Install-Package Avalonia
Install-Package Avalonia.Desktop
See what others have built with Avalonia UI on our Showcase. We welcome submissions!
We also have a nightly build which tracks the current state of master. Although these packages are less stable than the release on NuGet.org, you'll get all the latest features and bugfixes right away and many of our users actually prefer this feed!
Documentation can be found at https://docs.avaloniaui.net.
We also have a tutorial over there for newcomers.
We have a range of samples to help you get started.
See the build instructions here.
This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.
Please read the contribution guidelines before submitting a pull request.
This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant to clarify expected behavior in our community. For more information see the .NET Foundation Code of Conduct.
Avalonia is licenced under the MIT licence.
Donating to the project is a fantastic way to thank our valued contributors for their hard work. Your donations are shared among our community and awarded for significant contributions.
If you need support see Commercial Support section below.
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We have a range of support plans available for those looking to partner with the creators of Avalonia, enabling access to the best support at every step of the development process.
Please note that donations are not considered payment for commercial support agreements. Please contact us to discuss your needs first. [email protected]
This project is supported by the .NET Foundation.
Unleash the full potential of your existing WPF apps with our cross-platform UI framework, enabling WPF apps to run on macOS and Linux without requiring expensive and risky rewrites.
