Bring touch-friendly input to every screen

Effortless text input wherever a physical keyboard isn't practical. Designed for kiosks, tablets, and embedded systems.

Trusted by .NET teams around the world

Features

Powerful features, yet simple to use

Optimised for embedded

Designed for efficiency, it runs smoothly even on low-power CPUs and GPUs.

Intelligent layout switching

Automatically adapts to text input types such as numbers, email, or URLs.

Seamless focus awareness

Opens and closes automatically as users interact with text fields.

Multi-language support

Easily configure and switch between multiple locales and input methods.

Adaptive screen positioning

Keeps the focused field visible, never hidden behind the keyboard.

Source included

Enterprise

Full source code provided with every licence for complete control.

Setup

Simple installation and implementation

1

Add the OnScreenKeyboard package to your project

dotnet add package Avalonia.Controls.VirtualKeyboard
2

Include your Avalonia UI license key in the executable project file .csproj

<ItemGroup>
    <AvaloniaUILicenseKey Include="YOUR_LICENSE_KEY" />
</ItemGroup>
3

Open your App.axaml file and include the following within the Application.Styles section

<Application xmlns="https://github.com/avaloniaui"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
             x:Class="YourNamespace.App">
    <Application.Styles>
        <FluentTheme />
        <!-- Include the Virtual Keyboard theme -->
        <StyleInclude Source="avares://Avalonia.Controls.VirtualKeyboard/Themes/Fluent.axaml"/>
    </Application.Styles>
</Application>

Customer stories

"Avalonia has a very strong community, and frankly is a joy to work with."

Bill Henning

CEO & Founder, Actipro Software

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