Technical Requirements

During Development

Note: You don't need to consider requirements for platforms you do not intend to develop for.

Avalonia

• Avalonia 12.0.0 — Use the latest 12.x patch release.

.NET SDK

• .NET 8.0 SDK (LTS) — minimum requirement.
• .NET 10.0 SDK (LTS) — recommended for optimal compatibility.

Development Host OS

• Windows 10 or 11 (x64 or ARM64)
• macOS 12+ (Intel or Apple Silicon)
• Linux x64/ARM64 on a distribution supported by .NET 8 (e.g., Ubuntu 20.04+/22.04+, Debian 11/12, Fedora, RHEL 8/9)

IDEs and Editors (choose one)

• Visual Studio 2022 (17.8 or newer) with .NET 8 installed
• JetBrains Rider 2023.3 or newer
• Visual Studio Code with the C# Dev Kit extension and .NET 8 SDK

Avalonia Tooling

• Avalonia project templates: dotnet new install Avalonia.Templates

Optional Platform Workloads

(only if developing for those platforms)

• Android: dotnet workload install android (includes Android SDK/NDK; Java 17 provided)
• iOS: dotnet workload install ios (requires macOS host with Xcode 15+)
• WebAssembly: dotnet workload install wasm-tools (optional Node.js 18+ for local dev servers)

Linux Desktop Runtime (for running samples)

• Supported X11/Wayland stack and common desktop libraries (fontconfig, libx11, libxkbcommon, etc.)
• GPU drivers or Mesa for hardware acceleration (software rendering supported but slower)

Build, Pack, and CI

• .NET 8 CLI for build/test/pack operations
• NuGet 6+ (included with .NET SDK)
• CI runners with .NET 8 installed

Hardware

• 8 GB RAM minimum (16 GB recommended for Android/iOS/WebAssembly workloads)
• 10+ GB free disk space