--- title: Welcome to the New Era of App Development: Introducing... description: Avalonia v11 has officially launched after nearly a year in preview, bringing major updates to the cross-platform .NET UI framework. Key additions include iOS,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/welcome-to-the-new-era-of-app-development-introducing-avalonia-v11-jkkwhnsya twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Welcome to the New Era of App Development: Introducing Avalonia v11 | daily.dev og:description: Avalonia v11 has officially launched after nearly a year in preview, bringing major updates to the cross-platform .NET UI framework. Key additions include iOS,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/welcome-to-the-new-era-of-app-development-introducing-avalonia-v11-jkkwhnsya og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jkkwhNSyA.png og:image:alt: Welcome to the New Era of App Development: Introducing Avalonia v11 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Welcome to the New Era of App Development: Introducing Avalonia v11 **[Avalonia UI Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/avalonia-blog)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Avalonia v11 has officially launched after nearly a year in preview, bringing major updates to the cross-platform .NET UI framework. Key additions include iOS, Android, and WebAssembly platform support, a new composition renderer with implicit and connected animations, advanced text rendering with inline elements, IME support for global input methods, accessibility improvements, headless automated testing, AOT compilation and trimming (~60% smaller app sizes), revamped control themes with light/dark mode switching, and a new Template Studio wizard for Visual Studio. The release also marks growing commercial ecosystem interest from vendors previously focused on WPF and Xamarin. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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