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## 📖 About
Avalonia is a cross-platform UI framework for dotnet, providing a flexible styling system and supporting a wide range of Operating Systems such as Windows, Linux, MacOs. Avalonia is mature and production ready. We also have in beta release support for iOS, Andriod and in early stages support for browser via WASM.
To see the status of some of our features, please see our [Roadmap](https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues/2239). 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. [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!
## 🚀 Getting Started
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 starter guide see our [documentation](https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/getting-started).
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
([Synfonia](https://github.com/jmacato/Synfonia))
([Xaml Control Gallery](https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/xamlcontrolsgallery))
([Xaml Control Gallery](https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/xamlcontrolsgallery))
([Xaml Control Gallery](https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/xamlcontrolsgallery))
## JetBrains Rider
[JetBrains Rider](https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/whatsnew/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURBNU1HSmhNV0kwTUdFMiIsInQiOiJtNnU2VEc1TlNLa1ZRVkROYmdZYVpYREJsaU1qdUhmS3dxSzRHczdYWHl0RVlTNDMwSFwvNUs3VENTNVM0bVcyNFdaRmVYZzVWTTF1N3VrQWNGTkJreEhlam1hMlB4UVVWcHBGM1dNOUxoXC95YnRQdGgyUXl1YmZCM3h3d3BVWWdBIn0%3D#avalonia-support) now has official support for Avalonia.
Code completion, inspections and refactorings are supported out of the box, for XAML previewer add `https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugins/dev/14839` to plugin repositories and install [AvaloniaRider](https://github.com/ForNeVeR/AvaloniaRider) plugin.
## Bleeding Edge Builds
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!
## Documentation
Documentation can be found at https://docs.avaloniaui.net. We also have a [tutorial](https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/getting-started/programming-with-avalonia) over there for newcomers.
## Building and Using
See the [build instructions here](Documentation/build.md).
## Contributing
This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.
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](https://dotnetfoundation.org/code-of-conduct).
## Licence
Avalonia is licenced under the [MIT licence](licence.md).
## Support Avalonia
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This will be shared with the community and awarded for significant contributions.
### Backers
Thank you to all our backers! 🙏 [[Become a backer](https://opencollective.com/Avalonia#backer)]
### Sponsors
Support this project by becoming a sponsor. Your logo will show up here with a link to your website. [[Become a sponsor](https://opencollective.com/Avalonia#sponsor)]
## .NET Foundation
This project is supported by the [.NET Foundation](https://dotnetfoundation.org).