iUI abbreviates to iPhone User Interface. iUI mobile framework will be of great use when developing web applications for all the high end gadgets and iPhone class devices. This mobile framework allows you to build web apps for almost all the smartphones and tablets. This framework consists of simple , plain CSS, HTML and JavaScript and various images that will add to the advanced mobile web apps development. Thus if you make use of this framework you will not have to strive hard to learn a new development language and its syntax.
If you want to develop Web applications with complete iPhone look and feel then you can do so with the iUI Mobile Framework. You can create iPhone Style interfaces and various navigational menus with the use of standard HTML. The best thing about this framework is that you need not have additional knowledge about JavaScript so as to create modern and enhanced mobile web pages. This framework lets you handle the phone orientation changes by rendering more of a iPhone like experience in the web apps that you develop.
This framework is light weight as it does not have thousands of in built user interface elements or various transition styles which is mostly encountered in the heavy weighted frameworks such as Sencha Touch , jQuery Mobile and several others. This framework was developed only with the intent of keeping in mind the iPhone in the first place however now the support has been extended to tablets and smartphones.
Features of iUI
- The main aim of iUI is to keep the core code the web app under development as lightweight as possible.
- You don’t need to have the knowledge of JavaScript for creating modern web apps.
- This framework supports several themes , plug-ins and extensions. Most commonly used themes are Main Mobile OS Themes, Offline Cache , Event Logs , Google Analytics , System Information’s and lots more others.
- This framework is pretty simple and straight forward what you type is what you get as the result there is no need for any kind of code generation, code alteration and compilation.
- One can create App-Like control panels with iUI framework such as the simulated Settings page that already exists on the iPhones website.
- This framework is an open source and can be downloaded freely from the web.