MAUI Avalonia Preview 1 | Community Feed

Avalonia.Controls.Maui reaches its first public preview alongside Avalonia 12 and the .NET 11 previews. The backend lets a MAUI application target Avalonia without a separate bootstrapper, then render the same drawn controls across desktop and WebAssembly.

What you’ll learn

How to start in four steps — create a MAUI app, install Avalonia.Controls.Maui.Desktop, add net11.0, and call UseAvaloniaApp on the MauiBuilder
What the source generator handles — the package supplies Avalonia startup plumbing by default while still allowing advanced projects to extend or disable generation
How MAUI improved Avalonia itself — closing control gaps produced reusable Avalonia 12 features such as new navigation APIs instead of one-off MAUI-specific implementations
How compatibility was tested — the MAUI Control Gallery, MauiPlanets, 2048, AlohaAI, MyConference, and WeatherTwentyOne cover dense layouts, animation, themes, trimming, NativeAOT, navigation, FlexLayout, and WebView
Which graphics libraries carry across — MAUI Graphics primitives and wrapped SkiaSharp.Views.Maui controls allow existing drawn controls and libraries such as Mapsui.Maui to run on the backend
How native and drawn UI differ — native MAUI controls integrate with each host OS, while Avalonia provides consistent styling and behavior across every target

Read the preview announcement for setup links, application demos, current limitations, and the team’s plans for Maui.Essentials and WinUI interoperability.