Awesome-Avalonia

Avalonia is a cross platform XAML Framework for the .NET ecosystem

A curated list of Awesome Avalonia libraries and resources.

Contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the contribution guidelines pages first.

Content

• Awesome-Avalonia
  • Content
  • General
  • Samples and Projects
    • Audio and Music
    • Communication
    • Documents
    • Data Transfer
    • Finance
    • Gaming
    • Graphics
    • Productivity
    • Software Development
    • Other
  • Tutorials
  • Libraries & Extensions
    • Generic
    • Localization / Translation / i19n
    • Theme & Icons
    • MVVM & MVP & MVU
    • Charts & Plots & Diagrams
    • Controls
    • Games and Game engines
    • Web Browsers
  • Videos
  • Articles
  • Podcasts
  • Presentations slides
  • Tooling
  • Books
  • E-Books
  • Courses
  • Community
  • Other Languages

General

• Avalonia - Avalonia source code.
• Avalonia Dotnet Template - Avalonia Templates for dotnet new.
• AvaloniaVS - Visual Studio Extension for Avalonia.

Samples and Projects

Audio and Music

• 432hz Batch Converter - Converts and re-encodes music to 432hz.
• 432hz Player - Plays music in 432hz.
• Amplitude Soundboard - A sleek, cross-platform soundboard, available for Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
• Apollo Studio - Apollo Studio is a standalone editor and live playback engine for RGB Launchpad light effects.
• OpenPhonos - A cross-platform Sonos app built with Avalonia.
• OpenUTAU - A cross-platform singing synthesis platform.
• Powerliminals Player - Plays multiple audios simultaneously at varying speeds.
• XmlyDownloader - Free audio downloader for ximalaya.com based on Avalonia
• Xune - A cross-platform resurrection of Zune Desktop Music player using AvaloniaUI.

Communication

• Egram - Egram is an unofficial cross-platform Telegram client written in C#, .NET Core, ReactiveUI and Avalonia.
• GroupMe Desktop Client - GroupMe Desktop Client Avalonia is an open-source, cross platform, modular client for GroupMe messaging.
• Loon - Loon is a cross platform desktop twitter client. It's minimal design mimics gadget style applications.
• SkillChat - A cross-platform open-source messenger with real-time chat, sending files, receiving notifications, and the ability to deploy on a private server.

Documents

• AHpx.RG - Cross-platform readme generator based on xml summary documentation
• MangaReader - Help to download updates from online manga readers.
• ModularDoc - Modular documentation generator for .NET libraries. Currently supporting Markdown only for GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.

Data Transfer

• Camelotia - Cross-platform demo file manager for cloud storage.
• Jaya - Cross platform file explorer application for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.
• Purple Explorer - A cross-platform desktop application to manage messages in Azure service bus and queue

Finance

• Nethereum UI - Simple wallet cross platform using Avalonia UI.
• WalletWasabi - Open-source, non-custodial, privacy focused Bitcoin wallet for Windows, Linux, and Mac. Built-in Tor, CoinJoin, and coin control features.

Gaming

• BuildLauncher - Launcher and mods downloader for Build Engine games.
• ColorMC - A Minecraft Launcher.
• MzingaViewer - Cross-platform UI for playing the board game Hive against compatible AIs.
• RoadCaptain - Build and run custom routes in Zwift the virtual cycling world
• Steam Superheater - Fixes downloader for Steam games.

Graphics

• Beutl - Cross-platform video editing (compositing) software.
• Core2D - A multi-platform data driven 2D diagram editor.
• Lacmus - The program for searching through photos from the air of lost people in the forest using Retina Net neural network.
• PixelViewer - Cross-platform image viewer which supports reading raw Luminance/YUV/RGB/ARGB pixels data from file and rendering it.
• SpiroNet - The .NET C# port of libspiro - conversion between spiro control points and bezier's.
• TreeViewer - Cross-platform software to draw phylogenetic trees
• Xamlade - Visual Avalonia UI XAML editor.

Productivity

• Betakads - An AI-powered flashcards generator.
• iTimeSlot - A cross-platform and freestyle time management app for you to focus on completing tasks.
• Sapphire Notes - A cross-platform desktop application for managing notes.
• Team Sketch - A cross-platform desktop application for collaborative drawing.

Software Development

• asv-drones - Open source user-friendly software solution designed to provide remote control and monitoring of drones, payloads and RTK base stations.
• AvaloniaILSpy - Avalonia-based .NET Decompiler (port of ILSpy)
• AvalonStudio - Cross platform IDE and Shell.
• DAGE - DAGE is an Desktop Antlr grammar editor.
• DevTools for Avalonia - A 3rd party interface debugging functionality for Avalonia, provideing user-friendly and rich debugging features.
• FVim - Cross platform Neovim front-end UI, built with F# + Avalonia.
• Git-It-GUI - A Git GUI client designed to be simple with game studio collaboration in mind.
• JSON Formatter - A cross-platform desktop application for formatting JSON strings.
• Kangaroo IP Scanner - Cross platform IP scanner application.
• MatoEditor - A beautiful markdown editor.
• Modern VICE PDB Monitor - Provides a cross platform debugging environment for VICE emulator. Uses AvaloniaEdit as well.
• Parquet Floor - Floor is a reference implementation of the desktop application to view Apache Parquet files.
• Pororoca - A HTTP testing tool with support for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Alternative to Postman.
• PowerShell GraphicalTools - A module that mixes PowerShell and GUIs!
• Radish - Cross-platform desktop client designed exclusively for Redis
• RoslynPad - A cross-platform C# editor based on Roslyn and AvalonEdit
• SourceGit - A cross-platform Git desktop client.
• Syndiesis - A syntax (and more) visualizer for C# code powered by Roslyn.
• ULogViewer - Cross-platform universal log viewer which supports customizable logs reading/parsing/displaying.
• UVtools - A Cross-platform MSLA/DLP, file analysis, calibration, repair, conversion, manipulation, image processing, stacked layers, openCV

Other

• Komiic - A cross-platform client for Komiic.com
• KubeUI - Kubernetes User Interface
• Let it snow - .NET Core Avalonia UI Snow Demo.
• NP.Avalonia.Demos - Demos of Avalonia's features.
• Prism Outlookish - Learn Prism.Avalonia with this boilerplate for Regions, Modules, Dialog Service, Notification Service, and more.
• Unlimotion - A cross-platform open-source task scheduler with unlimited nesting level
• xDelta3 Cross GUI - A cross-platform GUI for creating patches using xDelta3 on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
• YouTube Video Uploader - Converted from WPF to Avalonia cross-platform tool for uploading videos to YouTube.
• YoutubeDownloader - Open-source YouTube video downloader

Tutorials

• AngelMunoz - AvaFunc - Desktop Apps with Avalonia and FSharp.
• Avalonia.Samples - A collection of minimal samples and tutorials.
• Avalonia for WPF Developers - Quick start for WPF developers.
• AvaloniaUI Tutorial - Official AvaloniaUI tutorial.
• Build Modern Cross-Platform Apps with .NET - Covers all areas of development: Avalonia, Dependency Injection, MVVM, Unit Testing, Reactive and Deployment.
• First App Tutorial - Quick tutorial for creating your first app.
• Full app for beginners - Tutorial for create calculator. Create full app with desing, mvvm, styling.
• macOS Sparkle Updates - Example on using the popular Sparkle library in Avalonia
• Quickstart - Info for quick start with Avalonia UI.
• Saving Routing State with ReactiveUI and Avalonia - For better UX, your app should be capable of saving state to the disk when the app is suspending and of restoring state when the app is resuming.
• Styles in Avalonia - Quick start for styling Avalonia.
• SuperJMN - IoT LedBar - AvaloniaUI IoT LED Bar sample.
• Wilderness Labs, Meadow Foundation - Learn how to get atmospheric data from a BME688 using Meadow Foundation and display its readings on an Avalonia application.

Libraries & Extensions

Generic

• AsyncImageLoader.Avalonia - Provides way to asynchronous Images loading. From web and beyond
• Avalonia.Xaml.Behaviors - Avalonia XAML Behaviors is an easy-to-use means of adding common and reusable interactivity to your Avalonia applications with minimal code.
• AvaloniaInside.Shell - Reduces the complexity of mobile/desktop application development by providing the fundamental features that most applications require such as Shell, Navigation, And Side Menu
• Lemon.Hosting.Avaloniaui - A lightweight module navigation framework built on top of the Microsoft Dependency Injection (MSDI) for AvaloniaUI.
• Lemon.ModuleNavigation - .NET Generic Host support for Avaloniaui app.
• Nlnet.Avalonia.Css - A library for Avalonia to write styles like CSS.
• Nukepayload2.SourceGenerators.AvaloniaUI - Visual Basic source generator for typed Avalonia x:Name References.
• ShowMeTheXaml.Avalonia - A control that makes it easier to display the corresponding XAML at runtime.
• Verify.Avalonia - Extends Verify to allow verification of Avalonia UIs using headless testing.

Localization / Translation / i18n

• Echoes - simple type safe translations library

Theme & Icons

• Aero Theme - Windows Aero Theme for Avalonia.
• CherylUI - Avalonia UI Library for Mobile Applications.
• Clasic.Avalonia - Classic Windows 9x-like theme and controls for Avalonia.
• Icons.Avalonia - A library to easily display icons in an Avalonia App.
• LucideAvaloniaUI - A library for AvaloniaUI that integrates Lucide icons into your Avalonia applications.
• Material Design - Collection of styles to help you customize your Avalonia application theme with Material Design
• Material.Icons.Avalonia - Lightweight library for easily display 6000+ icons from MaterialDesignIcons
• HeroIcons.Avalonia - Hand crafted icons from Heroicons made available to AvaloniaUI.
• Neumorphism.Avalonia - Easy to use and customizable Neumorphism Design implementation for Avalonia.
• Semi.Avalonia - Avalonia Theme inspired by Semi Design.
• AntDesign.Avalonia - Avalonia Theme inspired by Ant Design.
• SukiUI - Avalonia UI Library with a flat design approach.
• Magic.Icon - An icon class generator for iconfont in avalonia and wpf.

MVVM & MVP & MVU

• Epoxy - Easy, simplicity and minimulism multi-platform MVVM library.
• FuncUI - Develop cross-platform MVU GUI Applications using F# and Avalonia (with a view DSL)
• HanumanInstitute.MvvmDialogs.Avalonia - Simplifies opening dialogs from a view model with MVVM.
• Markup Declarative - Provides helpers for declarative UI and MVU Pattern in C# for Avalonia UI.
• NP.Avalonia.Gidon - IoC MVVM framework for Avalonia UI.
• Prism - Prism framework support for Avalonia UI.
• ReactiveElmish.Avalonia - MVU applications using F# and Avalonia (with XAML views)
• ReactiveHistory - Reactive undo/redo framework for .NET.
• ReactiveMvvm - Cross-platform ReactiveUI & PropertyChanged.Fody demo app.
• ReactiveValidation - Validating properties with messages on UI using fluent-style rules.
• Stylet.Avalonia - A very lightweight but powerful ViewModel-First MVVM framework for Avalonia, inspired by Caliburn.Micro.

Charts & Plots & Diagrams

• GoDiagram - A .NET library for rapidly building interactive diagrams.
• LiveCharts2 - Simple, flexible, interactive & powerful charts, maps and gauges for .Net.
• Microcharts - A simple Avalonia only port of the Microcharts library.
• OxyPlot - A cross-platform plotting library for .NET.
• ScottPlot - Interactive Plotting Library for .NET
• StockPlot - A Stock Markets Technical Analysis library for AvaloniaUI, based on ScottPlot, supporting live data stream.
• TeeChart - Versatile native .NET Charting, Map and Gauge control.

Controls

Docking Layout

• NP.Avalonia.Unidock - Simple VS2022-like window and view docking.
• UniDock - A docking layout system.

Document Viewers

• Markdown.Avalonia - Render Markdown in Avalonia.
• MuPDFCore - Multiplatform .NET bindings for MuPDF
• PdfLibCore - A fast PDF editing and reading library for modern .NET Core applications
• Print to PDF - An experimental library for creating PDFs from Avalonia UI visuals.

Media Players

• AvaloniaGif - Purely C# GIF decoder and animation library.
• FFME.Avalonia - MediaElement based on FFMpeg.
• LibVLCSharp.Avalonia - A cross-platform LibVLC Mediaplayer SDK for .NET with Avalonia integration.
• MarcusW.VncClient - A high-performance, cross-platform VNC client control with Avalonia support.
• MediaPlayerUI - Re-usable media player UI.

UI Libraries

• Actipro Avalonia UI Controls - Free UI controls and beautiful themes, along with a Pro option for advanced controls.
• Aura.UI - A Library with a lot of Controls for AvaloniaUI
• AtomUI - AtomUI is an implementation of Ant Design based on Avalonia/.NET technology, and is committed to bringing Ant Design's excellent and efficient design language and experience to the Avalonia/.NET cross-platform desktop software development field.
• AvaloniaAutoGrid - A flexible, easy to configure replacement for the standard Grid control.
• AvaloniaColorPicker - A color picker that supports RGB, HSB and CIELAB color spaces.
• AvaloniaControlsToolBar - A ToolBar and ToolBarTray controls for Avalonia.
• AvaloniaEdit - This is a port of AvalonEdit for Avalonia.
• AvaloniaFixedWrapPanel - Avalonia WrapPanel with fixed number of items per line
• AvaloniaGraphControl - A graph layout panel based on Microsoft Automatic Graph Layout.
• AvaloniaNavigationBar - Custom BottomNavigationBar Sample.
• AvaloniaNavigationPage - AvaloniaNavigationBar Page Transition Mechanism
• AvaloniaProgressRing - A simple progress ring control based on ModernWpf's progress ring
• AvaloniaRibbon - Ribbon for Avalonia.
• AvaloniaSpacedGrid - An extension of AvaloniaUI's Grid class with added RowSpacing and ColumnSpacing properties.
• Avalonia.PropertyGrid - A property editing control similar to DevExpress.PropertyGridControl.
• CalendarControl - A calendar control (week view) for Avalonia.
• DialogHost.Avalonia - Managed asynchronous overlay dialogs implementation.
• Dock - A docking layout system.
• Egorozh.ColorPicker - A color picker with RGB and HSB support.
• EremexControls.NET - Commercial UI controls for the cross-platform Avalonia UI framework to help you deliver cutting-edge applications with enhanced UX.
• ExtendedToolkit - Extended Controls for Avalonia UI.
• FluentAvalonia - Fluent Design and WinUi Controls
• GMap.NET - GMap.NET Allows the use of routing, geocoding, directions and maps from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, OpenStreetMap, ArcGIS, Pergo, SigPac, Yendux, Mapy.cz, Maps.lt, iKarte.lv, NearMap, HereMap, CloudMade, WikiMapia, MapQuest and many more
• HyperText - Control for visualising and using hypertext.
• JamSoft.AvaloniaUI.Dialogs - An MVVM dialog service, allows custom views, file dialogs and includes a complete multistep Wizard Control.
• JamSoft.AvaloniaUI.Lcd - A highly configurable animated segmented LCD control.
• MessageBox.Avalonia - Message Box UI for Avalonia UI.
• Movere - Movere is an implementation of managed dialogs for Avalonia.
• NodifyM.Avalonia - A collection of controls for node based editors designed for MVVM.
• NodifyAvalonia - Highly performant and modular controls for node-based editors designed for data-binding and MVVM. 1-1 port of WPF's version.
• Notification.Avalonia - Control for show different information in LINQ style.
• NP.Avalonia.Visuals - Additional visual controls by npolyak.
• Paginator.Avalonia - A paginator control.
• PanAndZoom - Pan and zoom control for WPF and Avalonia.
• RangeSlider - RangeSlider control.
• Ripple Effect - Sample of ripple effect.
• Tabalonia - Tab Control with drag-able tabs.
• Ursa.Avalonia - Ursa is a UI library for building cross-platform UIs with Avalonia UI.
• UVtools.AvaloniaControls - Fast and configurable AdvancedImageBox with image modes, pan & zoom, select regions, pixel grid and cursor images
• Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Avalonia - Xamarin Forms platform implemented with Avalonia (A multi-platform .NET UI framework).

Games and Game engines

• AvaloniaTetris - A Tetris game written with Avalonia.
• BattleCity - 2D game stub rendered completely by AvaloniaUI.
• Estragonia - Integration of Avalonia into the Godot game engine.
• Macabre2D - A game engine built on MonoGame.
• MonoGame - Integration of MonoGame for Avalonia.
• PokemonBattleEngine - A C# library that can emulate Pokémon battles.

Web Browsers

• CefGlue - .NET/Mono binding for The Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF).
• DotNetBrowser - Premium Chromium web browser control for Windows, macOS and Linux.
• OutSystems WebView - Fully featured Avalonia WebView Control.
• Avalonia BlazorWebView & Avalonia WebView - Native host webview for Avalonia, which used the features of platform.

Videos

• libdrm and Multi Touch - Avalonia libdrm/egl/libinput backend progress.
• Nikita Tsukanov - Framebuffer - AvaloniaUI running without X server on top of /dev/fb0 and libevdev2.
• Nikita Tsukanov - XAML-oriented - Nikita Tsukanov - AvaloniaUI - cross-platform XAML-oriented .NET UI framework.
• VNC Server - Avalonia acting as a VNC server
• Wiesław Šoltés - Dock - Dock - docking layout system for Avalonia applications - docking between windows.
• Wiesław Šoltés - Draw2D and Svg - Svg.Skia an SVG rendering library AvaloniaUI demo.
• Wiesław Šoltés - Svg - Avalonia SVG image support.
• Wiesław Šoltés - Theme Manager - AvaloniaUI Theme Manager.
• World of Zero - Hello World - A Cross Platform .NET UI Framework - Hello World in Avalonia UI.

Articles

• Artyom Gorchakov in The Startup - A Cross-Platform GUI Theme for Desktop .NET Core Applications - Getting started with building awesome cross-platform user interfaces with Avalonia framework and a modern UI theme.
• Hanselman - Cross-platform .NET UI Framework - What would a cross-platform .NET UI Framework look like? Exploring Avalonia.
• idiwork - Cross-platform apps with XAML - Avalonia, a big candidate to create cross-platform apps with XAML.

Podcasts

• HanselMinutes - E684 - Steven Kirk is on HanselMinutes to talk about Avalonia UI.

Presentations slides

Tooling

• Avalonia Material Icon Pack - All Material Icons Pack that can be found in https://fonts.google.com/icons (net5.0 only).
• Avalonia Toolkit - Visual Studio Extension to generate boilerplate Avalonia related code.
• Avant Garde - Standalone cross-platform XAML previewer for the C# Avalonia Framework
• Citrus.Avalonia - Modern styles for Avalonia controls.
• dotnet-properties - .NET Core CLI extension that allows editing project properties using a cross-platform UI.
• HotAvalonia - Supercharge your Avalonia development experience with hot reload capabilities.
• IconPacks - Import of more than 21,000 vector icons from the Visual Studio image library, VSCode Icons and MahApps.Metro.IconPacks.
• IconPacks Testbed - Testbed for MahApps.Avalonia.IconPacks.
• Live.Avalonia - Live reloading tool for developing Avalonia applications.
• PupNet Deploy - Cross-platform deployment utility which publishes your Avalonia application and packages it as a ready-to-ship installation file.
• Rider Plugin For Avalonia - JetBrains Rider plugin for Avalonia development.
• Svg.Skia - An SVG rendering library with an example of Avalonia.
• ThemeEditor - ThemeEditor is an Avalonia UI Framework theme editor.
• ThemeManager - Theme manager for Avalonia applications.

Books

E-Books

Courses

Community

• Bug report - GitHub Issues page.
• Gitter Chat - Gitter Chat
• StackOverFlow - Ask question in Stack Over Flow with avaloniaui tag.

Other Languages

• entwickler - eine Cross-Plattform-Lösung - XAML-Tipp: Avalonia – eine Cross-Plattform-Lösung für XAML
• LauZyHou - sbid-ava - 内生安全建模工具，基于.Net Core 3.0 的 Avalonia 跨平台桌面应用。
• Nikita Tsukanov - CLRium - CLRium #3: Кросс-платформенная разработка с использованием AvaloniaUI.
• Nikita Tsukanov - DotNext - Никита Цуканов — AvaloniaUI — первый кроссплатформенный XAML UI-фреймворк с поддержкой .NET Core.