Prism.Avalonia

Prism.Avalonia is a library that extends the Prism framework’s capabilities to Avalonia UI applications. Avalonia UI is a cross-platform .NET UI framework that enables the development of desktop applications for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and also supports mobile and web targets.

Prism is a framework designed to help build loosely coupled, maintainable, and testable XAML applications by implementing design patterns such as MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel), dependency injection, commands, and an EventAggregator for messaging.

Prism.Avalonia specifically adapts these core Prism functionalities to the Avalonia UI platform, allowing developers to leverage Prism’s structured approach for:

• Navigation: Managing transitions between different views within the application.
• Dialog Windows and Notifications: Creating and displaying interactive dialogs and system notifications.
• Dependency Injection: Facilitating the management of dependencies and promoting loose coupling.
• Messaging: Enabling communication between different parts of the application through an EventAggregator.

To use Prism.Avalonia, both the Prism.Avalonia core package and an associated IoC (Inversion of Control) container package, such as Prism.DryIoc.Avalonia, are typically required. Additionally, official dotnet templates are available to streamline the creation of new Prism.Avalonia projects.

More examples of how to use Prism.Avalonia can be found on my GitHub page, Learn.PrismLibrary, and the main repository’s end-to-end (e2e) sample projects.