Installation and first chart

Create a new Avalonia project and name the project and the solution AvaloniaSample Name the project and the solution WpfSample, select .NET 8.0 as the target framework. If you need help to get started with Avalonia please see the Avalonia docs.

Install from NuGet

You can get LiveCharts from NuGet. If you need more help to install a package from NuGet, please follow this guide.

LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.Avalonia

Create a View Model

After the package is installed add a new class to your project as follows:

using LiveChartsCore;
using LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView;
using LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.Drawing.Geometries;

namespace AvaloniaSample;

public class ViewModel
{
    public ISeries[] Series { get; set; } = [
        new ColumnSeries<int>(3, 4, 2),
        new ColumnSeries<int>(4, 2, 6),
        new ColumnSeries<double, DiamondGeometry>(4, 3, 4)
    ];
}

Add the chart control to the UI

Finally go to the MainWindow.axaml file and add the LiveCharts namespace, don't forget to add also the namespace of your ViewModel class, then add a CartesianChart control and bind the Series property:

<!-- mark -skip 3 -take 2 -->
<Window x:Class="MyApp"
    xmlns="https://github.com/avaloniaui"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:local="using:AvaloniaSample"
    xmlns:lvc="using:LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.Avalonia">

    <Window.DataContext>
        <local:ViewModel /><!-- mark -->
    </Window.DataContext>

    <lvc:CartesianChart<!-- mark -->
        Series="{Binding Series}"><!-- mark -->
    </lvc:CartesianChart><!-- mark -->

</Window>

And that's it, start your application and you will see the chart in your main window.

Configure themes, fonts or mappers (Optional)

Optionally you could configure LiveCharts to add a theme, register a global font, enable right to left tooltips or a custom mapper for a type, when you need a non-Latin font you must register a typeface so SkiaShap can render the text correctly, add the following code when your application starts:

Go to the Solution Explorer and browse for App.axaml.cs file, then add the settings you need:

using Avalonia;
using Avalonia.Controls.ApplicationLifetimes;
using Avalonia.Markup.Xaml;
using LiveChartsCore; // mark

namespace AvaloniaSample;

public partial class App : Application
{
    public override void Initialize()
    {
        AvaloniaXamlLoader.Load(this);

        LiveCharts.Configure(config => // mark
            config // mark
                // you can override the theme 
                //.AddDarkTheme() // mark 

                // In case you need a non-Latin based font, you must register a typeface for SkiaSharp
                //.HasGlobalSKTypeface(SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter('汉')) // <- Chinese // mark
                //.HasGlobalSKTypeface(SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter('あ')) // <- Japanese // mark
                //.HasGlobalSKTypeface(SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter('헬')) // <- Korean // mark
                //.HasGlobalSKTypeface(SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter('Ж'))  // <- Russian // mark

                //.HasGlobalSKTypeface(SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter('أ'))  // <- Arabic // mark
                //.UseRightToLeftSettings() // Enables right to left tooltips // mark

                // finally register your own mappers
                // you can learn more about mappers at:
                // https://livecharts.dev/docs/avalonia/2.0.0-rc5/Overview.Mappers

                // here we use the index as X, and the population as Y // mark
                .HasMap<City>((city, index) => new(index, city.Population)) // mark
            // .HasMap<Foo>( .... ) // mark
            // .HasMap<Bar>( .... ) // mark
            ); // mark
    }

    public override void OnFrameworkInitializationCompleted()
    {
        if (ApplicationLifetime is IClassicDesktopStyleApplicationLifetime desktop)
        {
            desktop.MainWindow = new MainWindow();
        }
        else if (ApplicationLifetime is ISingleViewApplicationLifetime singleViewPlatform)
        {
            singleViewPlatform.MainView = new MainView();
        }

        base.OnFrameworkInitializationCompleted();
    }

    public record City(string Name, double Population);
}