Avalonia is a cross-platform UI framework for .NET. It provides a flexible styling system and lets developers build applications for Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and WebAssembly.
The framework offers a familiar XAML-based development model for developers coming from technologies such as WPF, while providing its own cross-platform controls, styling and application infrastructure.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and WebAssembly.
- XAML-based user interface development.
- Flexible styling system.
- Data binding support.
- Control themes and templates.
- Support for Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio and JetBrains Rider.
- Distributed as NuGet packages.
- Extensive documentation, tutorials and sample applications.
Website: github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
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Developer: Avalonia UI
License: MIT License
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