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Avalonia is an open-source technology/framework that you can use to develop truly cross-platform desktop apps that look similar on every platform.

Today in this post, I will try to answer some of the questions regarding Avalonia.

🔣 Technically speaking, what is Avalonia and why should I choose it?
➖Avalonia is a pixel-perfect (UI/UX looks exactly the same on every platform) and cross-platform (works on multiple platforms like windows, iOS, Android, WebAssembly, etc... from one codebase).
➖It wraps up the skia graphics library for UI rendering purpose and has no dependencies on Xamarin and MAUI, making it truly pixel perfect and cross-platform.
➖It is a dotnet framework, which allows you to use C# or F# to make use of the technology and experience the advanced language features and extensive class libraries provided by dotnet.
➖Styling and animations are like CSS, and you can use XAML for the UI layout to write with tags like html.
➖It has proven to run seamlessly on low-powered and factory devices, making it quite flexible and versatile.

🔣 What is Avalonia very good at now?
➖Avalonia aims to work on multiple platforms, and it is doing a significant progress towards that target. But as of now, Avalonia is one of the best out there in regards to developing cross-platform desktop apps, and soon it will conquer the other platforms and allow you to target those from one code-base.

🔣 I have a WPF background, can I just jump to developing in Avalonia?
➖Avalonia is basically a cross-platform WPF. The paradigm is almost similar to WPF, making it easier to transition for WPF developers. I suggest to follow this short guide, and you are good to go.

🔣 How can I start developing with Avalonia?
➖if you have no experience with dotnet or C#, you should consider learning those first. I personally recommended learning basics of C# and how to work with dotnet and its libraries, and you are good to go.
➖If you are already a dotnet developer, you can go and learn from the documentation, or from tutorials on YouTube. If you wanna learn from YouTube, I personally suggest AngelSix's Avalonia playlist. I will put the links below.


Links
Avalonia documentation
AngelSix's Avalonia YouTube playlist
YouTube: OSS Spotlight - Build amazing cross-platform UI for .NET with Avalonia UI!
YouTube: Unleashing the Power of Cross-Platform Development with Avalonia UI | .NET Conf 2023

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