Avalonia.Controls.WebView 11.4.0

Avalonia WebView

The Avalonia WebView component provides native web browser functionality for your Avalonia applications. Unlike embedded WebView solutions that require bundling Chromium, this implementation leverages the platform's native web rendering capabilities, resulting in smaller application size and better performance.

Features

  • Platform-Native Engines: WebView2 (Windows), WebKit (macOS), WebKitGTK (Linux)
  • Lightweight: No embedded browser engine required - smaller application footprint
  • AOT Compatible: Compatible with Ahead-of-Time compilation and trimming
  • Platform Configuration: Supports WebView2 profiles, persistent storage paths, and many other platform-specific options
  • Web APIs: JavaScript execution, bidirectional messaging, cookie management, HTTP header interception
  • Authentication: Web authentication broker for OAuth and web-based authentication
  • Printing: Print web content directly from the WebView

Quick Start

Get started quickly with the WebView component: https://docs.avaloniaui.net/accelerate/components/webview/quickstart

Components

NativeWebView Control

The main control for embedding web content in your app.

<NativeWebView x:Name="WebView" 
               Source="https://avaloniaui.net" />

Documentation: https://docs.avaloniaui.net/accelerate/components/webview/nativewebview

NativeWebDialog

Native web dialog that provides a way to display web content in a separate window, particularly useful for platforms like Linux where embedded WebView controls might not be available

Documentation: https://docs.avaloniaui.net/accelerate/components/webview/nativewebdialog

WebAuthenticationBroker

WebAuthenticationBroker is a utility class that facilitates OAuth and other web-based authentication flows by providing a secure way to handle web authentication in desktop applications.

Documentation: https://docs.avaloniaui.net/accelerate/components/webview/webauthenticationbroker

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Avalonia.Controls.Maui
Avalonia.Controls.Maui are the handlers and renderers for .NET MAUI apps, replacing their default implementations with Avalonia-based ones.
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Avalonia.Controls.Maui.Essentials
Avalonia.Controls.Maui.Essentials provides an implementation of Microsoft.Maui.Essentials, using Avalonia-based implementations.
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Avalonia.Controls.Maui
Avalonia.Controls.Maui are the handlers and renderers for .NET MAUI apps, replacing their default implementations with Avalonia-based ones.
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Avalonia.Controls.Maui.Essentials provides an implementation of Microsoft.Maui.Essentials, using Avalonia-based implementations.
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# 11.4.0 - WebView is now FOSS under MIT license - Dropped .NET Standard and .NET Framework support - NativeWebView now supports Linux with WpeWebView backend - NativeWebView and NativeWebDialog now support Browser backend, but with sandboxing limitations - NativeWebView and NativeWebDialog now have UserAgent property # 11.3.16 - New WebViewAdapterInfo API to retrieve WebView engine and availability information - Implemented Android printing functions - Implemented `PrintToPdfStreamAsync(WebViewPrintSettings)` overload - Fixed Windows 7 support for WebView2 - Experimental WebView2 offscreen rendering, can be enabled via WindowsWebView2EnvironmentRequestedEventArgs # 11.3.15 - Fixed threading issue on XPF # 11.3.14 - Fixed crash when using `NativeWebView.Background` on iOS # 11.3.13 - Improves Mono AOT compatibility, removing warnings - Fixes GTK NativeWebDialog.Canceling event not being raised # 11.3.11 - First public NuGet release! - Adds `NativeWebView.ShowPrintUI` and `NativeWebView.PrintToPdfStreamAsync` methods for printing web content, supported on Windows, macOS and Linux GTK (with NativeWebDialog) # 11.3.10 - Fixes Android WebAuthenticationBroker not working with major OAuth providers - Adds `WindowsWebView2EnvironmentRequestedEventArgs.AllowSingleSignOnUsingOSPrimaryAccount` parameter - Adds `EnvironmentRequestedEventArgs.GetDeferrer()` for async initialization of the webview environment, if necessary # 11.3.9 - Implements Android `WebResourceRequested` header interception - Fixes Android `WebResourceRequested` not being executed on the UI thread # 11.3.8 - Fixes Gtk `NativeWebDialog` depending on the libsoap3.0, even if it's not installed - Fixes Gtk `NativeWebDialog` relying on `g_timeout_add_once` on older platforms # 11.3.7 - Implements Android `NativeWebDialog` - Implements Android `AndroidWebViewEnvironmentRequestedEventArgs` - Fixes Gtk `NativeWebDialog` crashing on some .NET runtime versions - Fixes Gtk AOT compilation # 11.3.6 - Fixes GTK `NativeWebDialog` on XPF - Adds WebView2 STA thread check # 11.3.5 - Fixes WebView2 on ARM64 processors # 11.3.4 - Imroves automatic sizing of `NativeWebView` - Imrpoves NuGet packaging, readme, description # 11.3.3 - Makes `NativeWebView` compatible with XPF # 11.3.2 - Extended focus handling support for WebView2 - Adds strong naming to the assembly - Implements `NativeWebView.Background`, with support for transparent background on some backends # 11.3.1 - Implements `NativeWebView.EnvironmentRequested` and `NativeWebDialog.EnvironmentRequested` - Enhanced platform interop with typed `NativeWebView.TryGetPlatformHandle` - Added `AdapterInitialized` and `AdapterDestroyed` - Added `WebResourceRequested` - Added `WebAuthenticationBroker` options for `NonPersistent` and `NativeWebDialogFactory` # 11.3.0 - Initial release

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