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 11 and later.

Documentation

Window top-level APIs

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

Theming

• Component states
• Colors
  • Color tokens
  • Color tokens association kinds
  • Color tokens bundles
• Skins
  • Skin overview
  • Light skins
  • Dark skins
• Painters
  • Painter overview
  • Surface painters
  • Outline painters
  • Highlight painters
  • Decoration painters
  • Overlay painters
• Decorators
  • Tab decorator
  • Window decorator
• 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
  • Color selector command
  • Custom command projections
• More components
  • Command strips
  • Command panels
  • Breadcrumb bars
  • Box with highlights
  • Loaders
• Miscellaneous
  • Context menus
  • All custom modifiers
• Ribbon
  • Overview
  • API skeleton
  • Working with command projections
  • Working with component projections
  • Working with galleries
  • Keytips
  • What happens when you resize the ribbon
  • Application menu
  • Anchored commands
  • Contextual task groups
  • Taskbar
  • Global contextual listener

Layout

• Tutorial
  • Introduction
  • Dialog units
  • Quick start
  • Another sample
  • Basics
  • Building
  • Factories
• Reference
  • Alignments
  • Constant sizes
  • Component sizes
  • Bounded sizes
  • Columns and rows
  • Cell constraints
  • Groups
  • Layout map
• Configuration
  • Cortex

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 Maven Central 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 Maven Central snapshot repository using the https://central.sonatype.com/repository/maven-snapshots/ URL.

Building Aurora

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