ArkUI-X Overview

Introduction

ArkUI is a declarative UI development framework for building distributed applications. It provides simple and natural UI syntax, diverse UI components, multi-dimensional status management, and real-time UI preview capabilities, helping you improve application development efficiency and achieve vivid and smooth user experience across devices. For details, see ArkUI Overview.

ArkUI-X further extends the ArkUI framework to multiple OS platforms. Currently, it supports OpenHarmony, HarmonyOS, Android, and iOS. More OS platforms will be supported in the future. With ArkUI-X, you can use a set of main code to develop high-performance applications supporting multiple platforms.

Key Features

The ArkUI-X framework has the following key features:

• Concise and natural declarative syntax.
• Efficient rendering pipeline and platform-consistent rendering mechanism.
• Efficient ArkCompiler and Runtime.
• Unified cross-platform API capability set and extension mechanism.

Technical Architecture

The figure below shows the overall architecture of the ArkUI-X framework. For details about the design, see ArkUI Cross-Platform Design.

Evolution Roadmap

2023 Roadmap

Getting Started

• Getting Started for Application Development

• Getting Started for Framework Development

Code Repository Address

ArkUI-X project: https://gitcode.com/arkui-x

ArkUI-X Documentation

Chinese version

English version

Source Code

For details about how to obtain the source code of ArkUI-X, see ArkUI-X Source Code.

Hands-On Tutorials

Samples

How to Participate

For details about how to join the ArkUI-X community, see ArkUI-X Community.

For details about how to contribute, see Contribution Guide.

License Agreement

ArkUI-X complies with Apache License Version 2.0. For details, see the LICENSE in each repository.

Third-party open-source software referenced by ArkUI-X complies with their respective original license.

Contact Information

For details, see Communication in Community.