The elegant framework for building beautiful and useful apps. libhelium is suited for building amazing native applications, regardless of design background or skill level.

Welcome! Please see the various resources below. If you have any questions, our Discord is always open :)

• The Helium HIG
• libhelium's gidoc
• libhelium's valadoc
• libhelium's rustdoc

Note libhelium's documentation is a bit sparse right now, if you'd like to help us, please see #23.

Please make sure you have these dependencies first before building.

gtk4
libgee-0.8
meson
vala

Please note that the demo also requires the following dependencies.

libbismuth-1.0
blueprint-compiler

Generating documentation requires the following.

valadoc
gi-docgen

Simply clone this repo, then:

meson _build --prefix=/usr && cd _build
sudo ninja install

For additional build options, please see meson_options.txt. For example, to enable the demo:

meson _build -Ddemo=true --prefix=/usr && cd _build
sudo ninja install