Developer's guide

This developer's guide describes how to develop applications with appealing graphical user interface (GUI) for Series 40 with the Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT). LWUIT supports visual components and other user interface (UI) ingredients, such as theming, transitions, animation and more.

This guide is based on the LWUIT Developer Guide that is part of the original LWUIT 1.5 library.

• Improvements in LWUIT for Series 40

• UI components

• Commands and menus

• Series 40 screen layouts

• Layout managers

• Theming and styling

• Touch gestures

• Animations and transitions

• Creating custom components

• HTMLComponent

• Portability

• Performance considerations

• Example applications

• Known issues

• FAQs