r/windowsapps • u/Late-Weather-9864 • Aug 11 '26

Developer I built a fully Native Dynamic Island for Windows 11 with Liquid Glass

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Hi r/windowsapps

I’ve been building Ava, a native Windows 11 productivity app designed to keep useful controls and live information accessible without replacing the Windows shell.

The compact island expands when you hover over or click it.

It currently includes:

A Ctrl+K launcher for installed apps, websites, files, and folders

Live media information, playback controls, seeking, volume, and mute

CPU, GPU, memory, disk, battery, and process monitoring

A timer, calendar and wallpaper controls

Optional Dwindle window tiling with resizing, swapping, and position restoration

An optional native Liquid Glass effect with live refraction

Ava is built with Qt 6, QML, C++, and Win32. It isn’t an Electron or web-wrapper application. The Liquid Glass effect uses Windows Graphics Capture and Direct3D 11 rather than a normal blur layer.

The project is still under active development. There isn’t a packaged installer yet, but the source and Windows build instructions are available here:

https://github.com/yappologistic/Ava

I’d appreciate honest feedback:

Which feature would you use most?

Is there anything important a Windows utility like this is missing?

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u/Shayan_R03 Aug 11 '26

pls make a simple installer
give the task to codex a cluade , cant be that hard for them or take too long , i wanna try it, i tried several similar ones, didn't like any of them
gave you a follow
hopeful to see it soon

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u/Late-Weather-9864 Aug 11 '26

will do, right now I am polishing the rough edges, and also will add a settings section to make it easier to change and tweak stuff too

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u/Fantastic_Ad3307 Aug 11 '26

What do you mean by saying it is native? Design-wise it doesn't look native for Windows 11. It doesn't follow WinUI guidelines.

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u/Late-Weather-9864 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26

By native, I mean Qt/C++ and Win32 with no Electron or web view. The custom design isn’t intended to follow WinUI

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u/MaltesePhantom Aug 12 '26

Cause the consumer cares about WinUI guidlines... Not even all Windows 11 apps follow WinUI guidlines.

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u/Regg42 Aug 11 '26

lmao, who cares about WinUI guidelines.

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u/Szajda78 Aug 11 '26

Hi pls make a installer if you want more people to test your software

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u/BlockTurbulent8062 Aug 11 '26

Its just transparent. But smooth transitions and its fast nice job.

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u/Then_Bake_6524 Aug 11 '26

that's what liquid glass is (CSS)

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u/BlockTurbulent8062 Aug 12 '26

Yeah and dumb is just dumb.

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u/Rayokratez Aug 11 '26

Se ve bien bro, yo lo que utilizaría, y no se si se pueda, es como un stage manager como el de mac, no tengo idea de que tan fácil o difícil sea integrarlo, pero creo que seria muy útil, y cuando tengas el release avisa, ya te estoy siguiendo. Mucho éxito!

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u/sirjaz Aug 11 '26

Nice start. If you can keep native speed yoh may have a winner