**Avalonia** is a WPF/UWP-inspired cross-platform XAML-based UI framework providing a flexible styling system and supporting a wide range of Operating Systems such as Windows (.NET Framework, .NET Core), Linux (via Xorg), macOS and with experimental support for Android and iOS.
**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 (.NET Framework, .NET Core), Linux (via Xorg), macOS.
**Avalonia** is ready for **General-Purpose Desktop App Development**. However, there may be some bugs and [breaking changes](https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/wiki/Breaking-Changes) as we continue along into this project's development. To see the status of some of our features, please see our [Roadmap here](https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues/2239).
**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.
| Control catalog | Desktop platforms | Mobile platforms |
To see the status of some of our features, please see our [Roadmap here](https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues/2239).
[Awesome Avalonia](https://github.com/AvaloniaCommunity/awesome-avalonia) is curated list of awesome Avalonia UI tools, libraries, projects and resources.
You can also see what [breaking changes](https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues/3538) we have planned and what our [past breaking changes](https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/wiki/Breaking-Changes) have been.
## Getting Started
Avalonia [Visual Studio Extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AvaloniaTeam.AvaloniaforVisualStudio) contains project and control templates that will help you get started. After installing it, open "New Project" dialog in Visual Studio, choose "Avalonia" in "Visual C#" section, select "Avalonia .NET Core Application" and press OK (<ahref="http://avaloniaui.net/docs/quickstart/images/new-project-dialog.png">screenshot</a>). Now you can write code and markup that will work on multiple platforms!
[Awesome Avalonia](https://github.com/AvaloniaCommunity/awesome-avalonia) is community-curated list of awesome Avalonia UI tools, libraries, projects and resources. Go and see what people are building with Avalonia!
For those without Visual Studio, a starter guide for .NET Core CLI can be found [here](http://avaloniaui.net/docs/quickstart/create-new-project#net-core).
## Getting Started
If you need to develop Avalonia app with JetBrains Rider, go and *vote* on [this issue](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-39247) in their tracker. JetBrains won't do things without their users telling them that they want the feature, so only **YOU** can make it happen.
The Avalonia [Visual Studio Extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AvaloniaTeam.AvaloniaforVisualStudio) contains project and control templates that will help you get started, or you can use the .NET Core CLI. For a starer guide see our [documentation](http://avaloniaui.net/docs/quickstart/create-new-project).
Avalonia is delivered via <b>NuGet</b> package manager. You can find the packages here: [stable(ish)](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Avalonia/)
Avalonia is delivered via <b>NuGet</b> 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:
If you need to develop Avalonia app with JetBrains Rider, go and *vote* on [this issue](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-39247) in their tracker. JetBrains won't do things without their users telling them that they want the feature, so only **YOU** can make it happen.
## Documentation
## Bleeding Edge Builds
You can take a look at the [getting started page](http://avaloniaui.net/docs/quickstart/) for an overview of how to get started but probably the best thing to do for now is to already know a little bit about WPF/Silverlight/UWP/XAML and ask questions in our [Gitter room](https://gitter.im/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia).
We also have a [nightly build](https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/wiki/Using-nightly-build-feed) 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!
There's also a high-level [architecture document](http://avaloniaui.net/architecture/project-structure) that is currently a little bit out of date, and I've also started writing blog posts on Avalonia at http://grokys.github.io/.
## Documentation
Contributions for our docs are always welcome!
Documentation can be found on our website at http://avaloniaui.net/docs/. We also have a [tutorial](http://avaloniaui.net/docs/tutorial/) over there for newcomers.
## Building and Using
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This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute. [[Contribute](http://avaloniaui.net/contributing/contributing)].
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