LWUIT for Series 40 (Featured Project of the Month August 2012)

LWUIT for Series 40 is a Series 40 port of the popular Lightweight User Interface Toolkit (LWUIT).

The Lightweight UI Toolkit is a flexible and portable UI component library designed for resource constrained devices (based on MIDP). It provides a compelling alternative to LCDUI on Series 40, delivering a large superset of UI components along with support for UI styling features like themes, animation and view transitions. The end result is faster and more efficient development of great looking cross-platform apps.

We featured this project for a week back in June, but because it is one of the most useful APIs available on Series 40 we’re now highlighting it for you for the whole month of August.

The project has evolved considerably since June. It now supports Series 40 Full Touch and has improved demo code. There are new documents covering best practices and known issues, the differences between “vanilla” LWUIT and the Series 40 implementation, and a complete set of UX Guidelines.

The project has been tested with Nokia SDK 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 (beta) for Java and is expected to work on Series 40 5th Edition and higher devices (full touch, touch-and-type and non-touch). To get started with LWUIT for Series 40 please visit the Wiki Page for step-by-step instructions.

The project team would welcome your participation in this project. Please provide your feedback and ideas in the project discussion boards or raise tickets if you discover any bugs!

– Hamish Willee (on behalf of the Projects Moderation team)

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