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Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform UIs?
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#2QT！
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#3Depends on what you're after :)
Electron or QT for cross-desktop apps, Angular & Ion framework for cross-mobile apps, React & React-native for cross-mobile apps
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#4Not a library per se, but HTML+CSS+JS. Bootstrap or some other mobile responsive framework. Works on just about every device&OS. Phone gap or similar if you really need native.
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#5I have tried many but always turn back to qt.
It has bindings for whatever language, compiles for any platform and the documentation is superb.
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#6Qt has a truly pleasant API and bindings in many languages. If you haven't used it before - and I know you haven't, otherwise you wouldn't be asking :) - give it a try. There's very little that's more cross-platform.
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#7React (Native). You can build an iOS and android app with the same codebase. Even windows phone and ubuntu are starting to support it. Then when you want to use the web, your whole data layer can carry over to reactjs. It's a really nice way of doing things. There's even react native for Mac OS that someone has started.
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#8There is also swing and javafx if you want to use jvm.
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#9Depending on the type of UI, you could also give Kivy a try.
https://kivy.org/
It's python based, and really easy to get going. It does have it's quirks, but overall I found it a joy to use.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform UIs?
#10Not a library per se, but HTML+CSS+JS. Bootstrap or some other mobile responsive framework. Works on just about every device&OS. Phone gap or similar if you really need native.
+1, because I had the urge to say the same thing.
I think the question needs to be a lot more specific about the type of app and the platforms it needs to run on. Web-based applications give you the broadest reach for the lowest cost if you can assume internet connectivity and if the GUI that's possible from within the browser sandbox is sufficient for your needs. (Capabilities are growing all the time, but it's still not the same as native.) If your app needs to be offline, it's still possible with web tech but it's harder to justify, unless you're doing a hybrid of online and offline and the online part isn't just service calls.