Unleashing the Power of Cross-Platform Development with Avalonia UI | .NET Conf 2023 

Avalonia is my greatest source of hope about dotnet open source community.

Fantastic presentation Mike. You really do a nice job of summarizing how Avalonia is a wonderful UI framework for building cross-platform applications.

The quality of Avalonia's output is simply amazing! Great presentation

Great work. Kudos.

I love AvaloniaUI !!

This is great❤ very powerful UI

❤ Nice

Great presentation! Great product.

Is the "Ambient Weather" an open-source project or not? Where can I find the source code of this beautiful UI？

How about making your own controls, how to make Them cross platform? Is it viable to make a cross platform engine editor with avalonia?

if wasn't for the css like stuff. if i need to use css like stuff, i not just learn/use blazor? it make no sense to use web things on desktop app

I've built several AvaloniaUI projects and he's 100% right - your project will run on everything - with almost and often NO modifications (including WebASM on browsers). But the best part is that unlike the 'native control' approach where you have to work with the lowest common denominator for each control or completely rearchitect your project, Avalonia works just like WPF, so you can tailor each control exactly as you want, or have theme packs that make the controls look native. It means there's no limit to what you can do cross-platform and the code works almost exactly like standard WPF/MVVM, soif you have an existing WPF project, porting it to Avalonia is really easy. I needed to port several apps from Windows to to macOS as desktop apps and Xamarin.Forms/MAUI started down the road of supporting macOS, then abandoned it in favor of MacCatalyst, which is basically an iOS app running on macOS. Avalonia builds real macOS apps using WPF XAML and coding paradigms.

Avalonia sounds good. I was developing native iOS, then moved to Flutter. Avalonia sounds very similar to Flutter. Rendering to native views like RN or MAUI is not the way I prefer.

Esto me explotó la mente, conozco XPF y WPF desde sus inicios y es increíble Avalonia

Great looking product. Open source and paid support services.

I am excitedly awaiting the unveiling of the Ambient Weather demo app's source code.

there is very little knowledge base on Avalonia. Official documentation is not complete and in some parts obsolete. I really want to do a big project with Avalonia, but I lack the tutorials in any form!

Yeaaah

I will definetely use Avalonia for v2.0 of my app instead of WPF - not only it seems nicer to work with, but also multiplatform. BTW, with XPF, I am pissed that Microsoft didn't do it those years ago - it would be so nice! At least as a result we have Avalonia :)

Being able to use Third Party UI components is the KEY for Avalonia being the 1st class option for native UIs. This is a KEY step. Great to hear.

I appreciate your dedication to creating informative videos.

This is what I was waiting to hear!

Are there any detailed comparisons with Flutter? I really want to know about performance and resource usage. Been trying to find a good multi platform framework I feel confident putting time into. Having said that I'm truly afraid that Google will kill Flutter on a whim at any given point. 😂 Especially now that they fired a lot of the team.

that's really amazing!

Avalonia is great and all, but I'm disappointed there was no mention of hot reload for VS or VSC. The community project is too slow and hasn't been updated in months. That is one of the biggest advantages of Flutter, in my opinion.

wait you're telling me Microsoft finally kinda followed SOLID? :P

I wish that Avalonia had C# markup like Uno. Are there any plans on creating this?

Next years video? 0:25

These demos could be easily done in Html using existing skills all UI developers already have. Why not just embed a web browser control and skip the Xaml tax?

so, if one does not use rider, no need using avalonia? lol