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README
๐ About AvaloniaUI
Avalonia is a cross-platform XAML-based UI framework providing a flexible styling system and supporting a wide range of Operating Systems such as Windows via .NET Framework and .NET Core, Linux via Xorg, macOS. Avalonia is ready for General-Purpose Desktop App Development. However, there may be some bugs and breaking changes as we continue along into this project's development.
Note: The UI theme you see in the picture above is still work-in-progress and will be available in the upcoming Avalonia 0.10.0 release. However, you can connect to our nightly build feed and install latest pre-release versions of Avalonia NuGet packages, if you are willing to help out with the development and testing. See Using nightly build feed for more info.
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!
๐ Getting Started
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.
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
Showcase
Examples of UIs built with Avalonia
JetBrains Rider
If you need to develop Avalonia app with JetBrains Rider you can use latest Rider preview builds.
Bleeding Edge Builds
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
Documentation can be found on our website at https://avaloniaui.net/docs/. We also have a tutorial over there for newcomers.
Building and Using
See the [build instructions here](Documentation/build.md).
Contributing
Please read the [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) before submitting a pull request.
Code of Conduct
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.
Licence
Avalonia is licenced under the [MIT licence](licence.md).
Contributors
This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute. [Contribute].
Backers
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Sponsors
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.NET Foundation
This project is supported by the .NET Foundation.
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