Pader-Sync have created an Android version of LWUIT. LWUIT comes from the Java ME world and solves two things. The first is being able to create rich controls on a Java ME canvas (i.e. the blank screen) as an alternative to using the less-attractive Form and Form controls. The second is to abstract away differences in screen sizes and phone capabilities.
I can see LWUIT for Android being useful for…
- Allowing a common UI framework across Java ME and Android
- Abstracting away differences in Android phone capability
- Providing UI construct that aren’t provided by the Android UI
One of the original authors of LWUIT has taken Pader_Sync’s implementation, tweeked it a bit and has run it on the Nexus One. There’s a video at Shai’s Java & LWUIT Blog.
