Mobile UI
Defining user interface of mobile apps
Overview
Dynamics Mobile SDK allows the developer to create 2 types apps - mobile and backend.
Each of types two types of apps is meant to be rendered on the different types of screens and has different use case. Due to this , Dynamics Mobile SDK provides 2 different frameworks for building UI.
Framework 7 for mobile apps
Bootstrap for backend apps
The Mobile UI in Dynamics Mobile is based on Framework 7. Framework 7 is a state of art open source framework for building of beautiful and rich platform independent mobile UIs.
Dynamics Mobile CLI automatically installs Framework 7 in your folder, when you initialize your repository with dms init command.
Framework 7 , provides a rich set of ready UI widgets like textboxes, dropdowns, swipeouts, bottom bars, tabs, toggles and many more and comes with beautiful documentation. All of the Framework 7 widgets can be used in Dynamics Mobile Apps. Most of the UI components can be used just by dropping an html snippet in your view's html.
Dynamics Mobile View layout
Dynamics Mobile mobile apps initialized internally Framework7, so the typical view layout in Dynamics Mobile App follows:
For example you can add few widgets in your vew like this:
And this is the result:
Consult with Framework 7 documentation for more details.
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