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Preface
Writing appealing cross platform mobile applications is
challenging. Due to implementation differences in fonts, layout, menus,
etc. the same application may look and behave very differently on
different devices. In addition much of the advanced UI functionality is
not accessible in LCDUI
and requires the developer to write very low level "paint" type code.
The Lightweight UI Toolkit was developed to address these issues. The
Lightweight UI Toolkit makes it very easy to create compelling UI's
that will look and behave the same on all devices using a programming
paradigm similar to Swing and an advanced GUI builder/theme creation tool.
This Toolkit is able to run on CLDC1.1
MIDP2.0/CDC PBP/SE, Blackberry, Java SE and was ported to several other
platforms.
To get started, first download the LWUIT Binary
from oracle.com.
For further details and guides, go to the LWUIT blog.
For support you can go to the LWUIT forum,
or to stackoverflow.
LWUIT is free for commercial and non-commercial use and uses the GPLv2 + Classpath exception which allows you to redistribute it with your application.
See more LWUIT related videos from Youtube channel.
Getting Started
- Download the LWUIT Binary from oracle.com.
- Read the Tutorial
- Read the Developer's Guide [PDF]
- Access the API documentation (javadoc)
- Ask your question at the LWUIT Forum
Key Features
- LWUIT Designer - Allows creating themes, user interfaces (GUI builder), localization etc.
- Swing Like MVC (Model View Controller)
- Layouts
- PLAF (Pluggable Look And Feel) & Themes
- Fonts
- Touch UI - Tensile/tactile drag and touch UI
- XML/HTML
- Animations & Transitions
- Rich widgets
- 3D Integration (Optional)
- Painters
- Modal Dialogs
- External Tools
- I18N/L10N
- Virtual keyboard
- SVG Integration (Optional)
How to Contribute?
Visit the LWUIT incubator project for more details
License
- Binary is licensed under Oracle Entitlement for Software. This license allows you to use the library in commercial products for free.
- Source code is licensed under GPLv2
with the classpath
exception which allows for full usage of the project in a closed-source product.
Ports And Related Projects
Android & BlackBerry Port by Thorsten Schemm - A native BlackBerry API port of LWUIT is available within the LWUIT incubator project source tree.
LWUIMB - LWUIMB is a port of LWUIT on top of the MicroBackend library. It allows LWUIT to work on top of various graphical libraries (SDL, AWT, SWT, X11, GTK, Qt3/Qt4/Qtopia4, Linux framebuffer) and JVMs (CLDC, CDC, J2SE). The MicroBackend library was created for needs of the MIDPath project.
Screenshots of LWUIMB can be found here .
Java TV/CDC Port of LWUIT is available here .
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