GuiLite - The smallest UI framework

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• Features
• Start with Demo
• Documents
• How to Learn?
• Videos
• Thanks

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Introduction

• GuiLite is a barebone UI framework with 5000 lines of C++ code, could run on all platforms(e.g, iOS, Android, Linux, Windows, macOS and Docker container).
• GuiLite is embeddable, could work inside other UI framework(e.g, Qt, MFC, Winform, Cocoa). You could get GuiLite feature and host UI feature simultaneously.
• GuiLite render UI by itself, independent of OS & Grphic library.
• GuiLite could work with many languages(e.g. Swift, Java, C#, Golang).
• ⚠️We never encourage people accept GuiLite totally, but want people customize it.
• ⚙️We hope GuiLite is small enough to help you understand how UI work.
• 👑You should be the master of your UI, not any UI library (including GuiLite).

🔥New feature：Golang + GuiLite

In order to show how GuiLite work with Golang, we add BuildGo for HostMonitor

Features

Cross platform

ARM Linux	STM32 Without OS

Windows Mixed Reality	Android

macOS	iOS

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Support Docker Container

We build GuiLite demo as docker image, you can update/deploy/run the latest GuiLite demo on your device with single command below:

• sudo docker run -it --privileged -v /dev:/dev-share idea4good/gui-lite:latest bash /run.sh

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Easy customization

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Multi-language:

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Multi-theme

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Who touched my code?

• Report build activities to cloud:
  
• Sync running data to cloud:
  

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Start with Demo

GuiLite is only a framework, could not create UI by itself. In order to show how to build UI App with it, We provide some samples for you.

• Sample code here.
• Sample introduction:

Sample name	Platform	Description	Build guidance	Diffculty level
HelloParticle	Windows, Linux, STM32F103, STM32F429	Show how to develop particle system	Build	★
HelloGuiLite	Windows, Linux	Show how to Initialize UI, load resource, layout UI	Build	★★
HelloMario	Windows, Linux, STM32F103, STM32F429	Show how to develop multi-layer UI system	Build	★★
HelloFont	Windows, Linux	Show how to use multi-language feature(UTF-8)	Build	★★
HelloAnimation	Windows, Linux	Show how to make animation	Build	★★
HelloSlide	Windows, Linux	Show how to use sliding pages	Build	★★★
HelloWave	Windows, Linux, STM32F103, STM32F429	Show how to use wave widget	Build	★★★
HostMonitor	iOS, Mac, Android, Windows, Linux	Show how to build complex UI for all platforms	Build	★★★★

Documents

• How to build?
• How GuiLite work?
• How to Layout widgets?
• How to build unicode font/bitmap resource?
• How to switch theme?
• How to dispatch messages?
• UML chart of GuiLite core

How to learn?

1. Build/Run GuiLite library
2. Build/Run HelloXXX demos
3. Read/Modify HelloXXX/UIcode/UIcode.cpp code
4. Read/Modify gui code
5. Read/Modify core code
6. Build your UI framework

Videos

• GuiLite introduction
• 3D GuiLite
• GuiLite + STM32

Mirror repository

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Thanks

• Thanks the help from QQ group, you guys make GuiLite better! And welcome new friend to join us.
  
• Thanks the donations from Gitee users, every penny of donations will be used for needy children or family of China.