PROGRAMMATIC NATIVE RENDERING OF STRUCTURED CONTENT

摘要

A user interface (UI) layout description language is described in which a UI may be specified for presentation by different versions of the same app running on different platforms. A layout engine written in a platform-specific language parses the UI layout description and transforms it to a native view using native UI components. The app on each platform has its own layout engine, but each can use the same layout description to generate a native view. Thus, a UI can be built once for all of the platforms. And because the UI layout engines are written in the language of their corresponding platforms, the UIs generated are high performing.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
providing a first version of an application to a first device having a first operating system, the first version of the application being in a first platform-specific language of the first device and including a first layout engine configured to receive a first user interface (UI) layout description specified in a UI layout description language, and to generate a first native view for presentation on the first device using the first UI layout description and one or more native UI components of the first device; and providing a second version of the application to a second device having a second operating system, the second version of the application being in a second platform-specific language of the second device, the second platform-specific language being different than the first platform-specific language of the first device, the second version of the application including a second layout engine configured to receive the first UI layout description, and to generate a second native view for presentation on the second device using the first UI layout description and one or more native UI components of the second device; wherein the first native view is substantially the same visually as the second native view.