moreSwift/swift-cross-ui
Swift Cross Ui
Swift Cross UI is a cross-platform framework for building native user interfaces using a single declarative codebase. It leverages Swift-native language features, such as result builders and property wrappers, to provide a type-safe syntax for defining application layouts and state. The framework automatically reconciles the interface by tracking data changes and updating only the affected parts of the view tree.
The project utilizes a platform-specific backend abstraction to map declarative code to native components across multiple operating systems, including macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and tvOS. For Linux environments, it provides a dedicated rendering layer that displays application components using the Gtk3 toolkit to ensure native integration and consistent performance.
By implementing a declarative syntax for interface construction, the framework allows developers to maintain a unified codebase while targeting diverse desktop and mobile platforms. The library is designed to support the creation of graphical applications that remain compatible with various distributions and device types.
Features
- Declarative UI Frameworks - Provides a cross-platform framework for building native user interfaces using a declarative codebase.
- Widget Tree Reconciliation - Updates the interface by tracking data changes and performing incremental reconciliation of the widget tree.
- Application Platforms - Maps declarative code to native components across desktop and mobile operating systems.
- Cross-Platform Deployment Targets - Supports deploying applications across desktop and mobile platforms from a single codebase.
- Unified Multi-Platform Deployment - Targets native platform backends across macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and tvOS from a single project.
- Cross-Platform Development - Facilitates building native user interfaces for multiple platforms using a unified declarative codebase.
- Plugin-Based Backend Abstractions - Maps declarative code to platform-specific native components through a decoupled backend abstraction layer.
- Declarative UI Toolkits - Implements a declarative syntax for interface construction inspired by modern platform-native UI paradigms.
- Desktop Interface Toolkits - Renders native desktop interface components on Linux systems using standard toolkits.
- GTK Toolkits - Translates declarative UI descriptions into native widgets using the GTK toolkit for Linux environments.
- Declarative Interface Definitions - Uses a declarative DSL to define application layouts and state for consistent cross-device behavior.
- Reactive View Trees - Provides a hierarchical view structure that automatically synchronizes with application state.
