Aurora libraries

Aurora is a collection of libraries for writing modern, elegant and fast desktop Compose applications based on the Ephemeral design system. It is built with Java 17, and runs on Java 17 and later.

Documentation

Window top-level APIs

• Hello World
• Aurora Application
• Aurora Window
• Window title panes
• Radiance interoperability

Theming

• Component states
• Colors
  • Color schemes
  • Color scheme association kinds
  • Color scheme file format
  • Color scheme bundles
• Skins
  • Skin overview
  • Light skins
  • Dark skins
• Painters
  • Painter overview
  • Fill painters
  • Border painters
  • Decoration painters
  • Highlight painters
  • Overlay painters
• Themed states

Components

• Intro
  • Basic concepts
  • Sample app
  • Another sample app
• Commands
  • Command overview
  • Command projections
  • Command button presentation models
  • Command popup menus
• Projections
  • Model and projection overview
  • All component projections
• Revisiting commands
  • More on commands
  • Custom command projections
• More components
  • Command strips
  • Command panels
  • Breadcrumb bars
  • Box with highlights
• Miscellaneous
  • Context menus
  • All custom modifiers

SVG transcoding

• What is SVG transcoding
• Gradle plugin for SVG transcoding
• SVG transcoding internals

Have a question?

• File a bug
• Get in touch

Aurora artifacts

Aurora artifacts are available in the central Maven repository under groupId=org.pushing-pixels

Core artifacts

• aurora-theming
• aurora-component
• aurora-window

Tools artifacts

• aurora-tools-svg-transcoder
• aurora-tools-svg-transcoder-gradle-plugin

Snapshots

Aurora snapshot artifacts are available in the Sonatype repository.

Building Aurora

This document is an overview of how to build Aurora artifacts locally.