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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · 3d

Just wrapped an incredible Azure Dev Summit!

Loved connecting with so many of you and hearing about the amazing things you're building.

Can't wait to continue the conversations at Techorama later this month! 👋

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · 6d

We already support Linux. Have done for many, many years.

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · 7d

Avalonia Accelerate just got better! 🚀

What's new:
- Brand new VS extension for streamlined workflows
- One-click app packaging
- Markdown viewer control
- Enhanced TreeDataGrid component
- OnScreenKeyboard control

Learn more:
avaloniaui.net/blog/accele...

Accelerate Updates - Empowering Professional Avalonia Development - Avalonia UI

Announcing Avalonia Accelerate - Phase 2

avaloniaui.net

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · 7d

🙌

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · 7d

Plot twist: That slick Windows 11 app with Mica effects? It's built with Avalonia!

Fluent Search looks so native that users think it's UWP.

Nope - just Avalonia delivering native Windows performance.

Even Windows-only apps deserve better than Electron.

fluentsearch.net

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · 10d

Thank you! 🙏

Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · 10d

The next iteration of Accelerate launches on Monday.

Brand new tooling, a free Community Edition for 67% of users, trials, startup discounts, and new pro UI controls.

Here's what's changing with licensing: avaloniaui.net/blog/buildi...

Accelerate Licensing Changes - Avalonia UI

Building a Sustainable Future for Avalonia's professional tooling

avaloniaui.net

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · 11d

Excited to announce Avalonia UI's investment in Wilderness Labs

Combining Meadow's IoT platform with Avalonia means .NET across the entire stack.

Read more: avaloniaui.net/blog/avalon...

Avalonia Invests in Wilderness Labs - Avalonia UI

Avalonia invests in Wilderness Labs to deepen collaboration and bring .NET to more embedded and IoT applications, from microcontrollers to user interfaces.

avaloniaui.net

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · 14d

KubeUI: Kubernetes management made simple with Avalonia! ⚓

✅ Multi-cluster support
✅ YAML editing
✅ Pod logs & console
✅ Port forwarding
✅ Cross-platform (Win/Mac/Linux)

Managing K8s clusters has never looked this good. Built with .NET & Avalonia!
github.com/IvanJosipov...

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · 17d

Readiris PDF 23 runs on Avalonia!

This powerful PDF tool with OCR, editing, and signing features started as WPF but went cross-platform with Avalonia!

iriscorporate.com/softwares/r...

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · 18d

Wayland is becoming the default display protocol on Linux.

Avalonia is getting native Wayland support.

Embedded comes first. Compositors follow. Existing apps remain safe through XWayland.

Explore the challenges: avaloniaui.net/blog/bringi...

Bringing Wayland Support to Avalonia - Avalonia UI

A Pragmatic Approach to Linux's Display Server Future

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · 19d

We're experimenting with additional rendering backends for Avalonia.

SkiaSharp remains the default (and will for years), but we're exploring what GPU-first rendering could bring to the platform.

Read about our early experiments: avaloniaui.net/blog/the-fu...

The Future of Avalonia's Rendering - Avalonia UI

Our exploration into rendering options other than SkiaSharp

avaloniaui.net

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · 21d

> 101M package downloads!

- 101,477,309 NuGet downloads across all Avalonia UI packages
- 1,700,000+ unique projects in 2025 alone

Real production packages only. We keep our nightlies off NuGet to give you honest numbers, not inflated stats.

This is all thanks to you. Thank you ❤️ #dotnet

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · 26d

UXDivers showcases what's possible with Avalonia! 🎨

Their HMI sample features:
✨ Real-time weather data
✨ LiveCharts gauges
✨ Glass effects
✨ AOT compilation
✨ MVVM patterns

Professional UI/UX meets cross-platform .NET. This is the future!

uxdivers.com/avalonia

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · 28d

Find him on YouTube here: youtube.com/@angelsix

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I develop software and hardware systems in a huge variety of areas Here is where I give away my knowledge for free. Learn anything from C# to Xamarin to soldering, hardware design and more. www.ang...

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · 28d

A big welcome to Luke who's joining our team! 🎉

He's here to help developers succeed with Avalonia!

You may know him better as AngelSix. He's been creating content that helps .NET developers build amazing apps for years.

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · Sep 16

Pleased to share that we'll be at Azure Dev Summit next month (Oct 13-16).

Just in time as we've been working on some new swag 👀

While these beauties are for our team members, we'll have some exclusive goodies to give away at our booth.

See you there!

azuredevsummit.com/

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · Sep 16

Enscape uses Avalonia! 🏗️

The real-time rendering plugin trusted by architects worldwide for Revit, SketchUp & Rhino relies on our UI framework.

When industry leaders like @ChaosGroup need cross-platform performance, they choose .NET & Avalonia.

chaos.com/enscape

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · Sep 13

Release alert: Avalonia 11.3.6 is here.

A small release, but one your macOS users will appreciate.

github.com/AvaloniaUI/...

Avalonia 11.3.6 release, ready for macOS Tahoe

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · Sep 8

Unity's Plastic SCM is powered by Avalonia! 🤯

Game studios managing massive repos with a .NET app - that's the power of modern cross-platform development.

Native performance > Electron bloat, every time.
plasticscm.com

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · Sep 5

Text rendering remains one of the most challenging aspects of building cross-platform UI frameworks

We've built a small test app to make it easier to identify and resolve text rendering issues ❤️

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · Sep 3

It's a modest release this time with 11.3.5

Just 2 new features and 16 fixes.

github.com/AvaloniaUI/...

Release 11.3.5 · AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

What's Changed Features Core – Update Brush.Parse() to Handle all Color Formats by @robloo in #19526 Text – Make typeface matching and synthetic typeface creation customizable by @Gillibald in...

github.com

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · Sep 1

Lunacy: The Figma alternative that's ACTUALLY native! 🎨

Built with Avalonia. No Electron bloat here!

✨ Import from Figma
✨ Real-time collab
✨ Built-in icons/photos
✨ AI tools
✨ FREE forever

This is what native .NET apps can do!

icons8.com/lunacy

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · Aug 27

Still get a huge smile seeing LINQPad running on macOS via Avalonia XPF! 😊

One of .NET's most essential tools, now available on macOS, without requiring a full rewrite!

This is why we built XPF, to free incredible Windows apps from being Windows-only.

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Avalonia UI @avaloniaui.net · Aug 25

The Git client you should be using! 🚀

Everything you need:
✓ Interactive rebase
✓ GitFlow
✓ AI commits
✓ 12 languages
✓ Custom themes
✓ 100% free & open source.

This is how Git GUIs should be built!
github.com/sourcegit-s...

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