A modern cross-platform C++ library providing seamless, unified access to native system APIs across multiple platforms.

🚧 Work in Progress: This package is currently under active development.

• CMake 3.10 or later
• C++17 compatible compiler:
  • Windows: Visual Studio 2017 or later / MinGW-w64
  • macOS: Xcode 9.0 or later (Clang)
  • Linux: GCC 7.0+ or Clang 5.0+

• GTK 3.0 development headers

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev

# CentOS/RHEL/Fedora
sudo yum install gtk3-devel
# or
sudo dnf install gtk3-devel

• Cocoa framework (included with Xcode)

• Windows SDK

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/libnativeapi/nativeapi.git
cd nativeapi

# Create build directory
mkdir build
cd build

# Configure and build
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config Release

Format the codebase using clang-format:

clang-format -i **/*.cpp **/*.h **/*.mm

Currently available language bindings for nativeapi:

• nativeapi-flutter - Flutter bindings
• nativeapi-swift - Swift bindings

These bindings provide native system API access while preserving the library's core functionality.

MIT

Build with NATIVEAPI_ENABLE_WINUI3=ON to use WinUI 3 menus and message dialogs automatically, enable AppWindow title-bar customization and system notifications, and select the WinRT file/folder picker backend. With the option OFF, Windows uses the Win32 menu/dialog and IFileDialog picker backends. See build and usage instructions.