Welcome to GUI-lite

<img src="documents/logo.png" alt="Logo"/> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/build-passing-brightgreen.svg"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/platform-Windows%20%7C%20Linux%20%7C%20macOS%20%7C%20iOS%20%7C%20Android%20%7C%20MCU-brightgreen.svg"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/architecture-amd64%20%7C%20arm%20%7C%20arm64-blue.svg"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache%202-blue.svg"> The smallest header-only GUI library (4 KLOC) for all platforms. <img src="documents/WhyGuiLite.png" alt="Why GuiLite"/>

中文

Lightweight

✂️Small: 4,000+ lines of C++ code, zero dependency, header-only(GuiLite.h)
⚡Fast: High Rendering performance, even work on MCU
👫🏻Compatible: Work smoothly with 3rd party frameworks(Qt/MFC/Winform/Cocoa/Web)
⚙️️Hardware Minimum Requirements:

| Processor | Disk/ROM space | Memory | | --- | --- | --- | | 24 MHZ | 29 KB | 9 KB |

Cross platform

Supported OSes: iOS/macOS/WatchOS, Android, Linux, Windows, RTOS... or MCU without OS
Supported languages: C/C++, Swift, Java, Javascript, C#, Golang...
Supported 3rd party libraries: Qt, MFC, Winforms, CoCoa...

Hero features

☁️Cloud + IoT Solution: master your IoT business all over the world
🔣Multi-language, supports UTF-8;📀Playback Video
🔨Toolkit for building font/image resources
📐Layout GUI WYSIWYG
📊Code Telemetry and Analysis in real time
📦Supports 3D and Web
🐋Run in docker with a single command: sudo docker run -it --privileged -v /dev:/dev-share idea4good/gui-lite:latest bash /run.sh

Easy to learn and support

Even a C beginner could master GUI-lite quickly. The source code only uses basic C++ features (class, virtual function). We chose C++ as it could make the code size significantly smaller and easier to read.

📚Documentation
📈Learning steps
1. Build GUI-lite library
2. Build/Debug HelloXXX demos
3. Read/Modify HelloXXX/UIcode/UIcode.cpp code
4. Read/Modify widgets code
5. Read/Modify core code
6. Build your GUI framework
📞Reach out us if you have any questions you are welcomed to our developer family.
🀄️Mirror repository in China

Demo wall

Zero dependency, 100% build pass & runnable
Click the demo you like, and run it on your hardware
Most of the demos have about 100 lines of UI code, the code repository is GuiLiteSamples

MCU platform

<table> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/Hello3D"><img src="documents/Hello3D.gif" width="200px;"/> 3D on STM32</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloWave"><img src="documents/HelloWave.gif" width="200px;"/> Wave on STM32</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloParticle"><img src="documents/HelloParticle.gif" width="200px;"/> Particle on STM32</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloStar"><img src="documents/HelloStar.gif" width="200px;"/> Star on STM32</a> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/Hello3Dwave"><img src="documents/Hello3Dwave.gif" width="200px;"/> 3D wave on STM32</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloNoTouch"><img src="documents/HelloNoTouch.gif" width="200px;"/> Keyboard on STM32</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloMario"><img src="documents/HelloMario.gif" width="200px;"/> Mario on STM32</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloCircle"><img src="documents/HelloCircle.gif" width="200px;"/> 3D circle on STM32</a> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/Hello3Ddonut"><img src="documents/Hello3Ddonut.gif" width="200px;"/> 3D donut on STM32</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloTimer"><img src="documents/HelloTimer.gif" width="200px;"/> Timer</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloMolecule"><img src="documents/HelloMolecule.gif" width="200px;"/> Molecule move</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloPendulum"><img src="documents/HelloPendulum.gif" width="200px;"/> Pendulum effect</a> </tr> </table>

IoT feature

<table> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HostMonitor"><img src="documents/data_on_cloud.png" width="600px;"/> Monitor IoT device on cloud</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HostMonitor"><img src="documents/BuildInfo.png" width="600px;"/> Code Telemetry & Analysis in real time</a> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloAzureIoT"><img src="documents/HelloAzureIoT.jpg" width="600px;"/> Track IoT device over the world</a> </tr> </table>

Multi-language, Design tool and video

<table> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloFont"><img src="documents/HelloFont.gif" width="600px;"/> Lattice Font</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloFreetype"><img src="documents/HelloFreetype.gif" width="600px;"/> Freetype Font</a> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLitePreviewer"><img src="documents/Previewer.gif" width="600px;"/> Layout GUI</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloJPG"><img src="documents/HelloJPG.gif" width="600px;"/> Render JPG file quickly</a> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloFFmpeg"><img src="documents/HelloFFmpeg.jpg" width="600px;"/> Play video with FFmpeg</a> </tr> </table>

Widgets & Controller

<table> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloGuiLite"><img src="documents/HelloGuiLite.gif" width="600px;"/> Emulate Windows UI</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloScroll"><img src="documents/HelloScroll.gif" width="600px;"/> Scroll widget</a> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloWidgets"><img src="documents/HelloWidgets.gif" width="600px;"/> How to use widgets</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloNets"><img src="documents/HelloNets-pc.gif" width="600px;"/> 3D Nets on Windows/Linux</a> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloTransparent"><img src="documents/HelloTransparent.gif" width="600px;"/> Transparent dialog</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HelloSlide"><img src="documents/HelloSlide.gif" width="600px;"/> Swipe view</a> </tr> </table>

Cross platform

<table> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HostMonitor"><img src="documents/HostMonitor.gif" width="300px;"/> HostMonitor on Windows</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HostMonitor"><img src="documents/Mac.gif" width="300px;"/> HostMonitor on Mac</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HostMonitor"><img src="documents/Android.gif" width="300px;"/> HostMonitor on Android</a> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HostMonitor"><img src="documents/WinMR.gif" width="300px;"/> HostMonitor on Windows Mixed Reality</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteSamples/tree/master/HostMonitor"><img src="documents/Linux.gif" width="300px;"/> HostMonitor on Linux</a> <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLiteWeb"><img src="documents/GuiLite3D.gi

GuiLite

Install / Use

README

Welcome to GUI-lite

Lightweight

Cross platform

Hero features

Easy to learn and support

Demo wall

MCU platform

IoT feature

Multi-language, Design tool and video

Widgets & Controller

Cross platform