Material.Avalonia vs Semi.Avalonia

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Material.Avalonia		Semi.Avalonia
	Project
4	Mentions	3
664	Stars	587
7.5%	Growth	9.7%
9.4	Activity	9.2
2 days ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Material.Avalonia

Posts with mentions or reviews of Material.Avalonia. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-06.

Avalonia UI Community Q&A. We talked about themes, v11, MAUI Hybrid and much more.
7 projects | /r/dotnet | 6 May 2023

Material Design
WPF Begins its Long Goodbye
9 projects | /r/dotnet | 5 Mar 2023
Using MaterialDesignInXaml with AvaloniaUI?
1 project | /r/AvaloniaUI | 1 Jan 2023
Improve UI in xaml application using avalonia
1 project | /r/dotnet | 5 Mar 2021

Avalonia 0.10 (last version) features Microsoft's Fluent Design out the the box. If you prefer Material Design you can use :https://github.com/AvaloniaUtils/material.avalonia

Semi.Avalonia

Posts with mentions or reviews of Semi.Avalonia. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-09.

How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jul 2023

> The "look and feel" of the program usually gives it away more or less immediately.
If you are talking about the base controls, then maybe. But there are .Net cross-platform frameworks such as Avalonia that can get you a modern loooking UI with theming.
https://github.com/irihitech/Semi.Avalonia
https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Citrus.Avalonia
etc.
Avalonia UI Community Q&A. We talked about themes, v11, MAUI Hybrid and much more.
7 projects | /r/dotnet | 6 May 2023

Semi.Avalonia
WPF Begins its Long Goodbye
9 projects | /r/dotnet | 5 Mar 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Material.Avalonia and Semi.Avalonia you can also consider the following projects:

FluentAvalonia - Control library focused on fluent design and bringing more WinUI controls into Avalonia

avalonia-aero-theme

MinimalAvalonia

tinyPE - Smallest possible PE files. Artisanal, hand-crafted with love and care.

Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET UI client technology

Scriper - .Net Core desktop app for running scripts.

Estragonia - Estragonia: Avalonia in Godot

SpiroNet - The .NET C# port of libspiro - conversion between spiro control points and bezier's.

lambda-converters - Strongly-typed lambda expressions as value converters, data template selectors, and validation rules

Trace - Trace is an application for transforming bitmaps into vector graphics using BitmapToVector library.

Win2D - Win2D is an easy-to-use Windows Runtime API for immediate mode 2D graphics rendering with GPU acceleration. It is available to C#, C++ and VB developers writing apps for the Windows Universal Platform (UWP). It utilizes the power of Direct2D, and integrates seamlessly with XAML and CoreWindow.