Throughout this documentation, a “user interface client” refers to code that creates a graphical user interface and responds to input events, such as mouse, touch, and keyboard.
These UI functions are divided between a number of FIDL APIs to serve a broad spectrum of constituents; hence there is no single “UI API”. Instead, a client implements its UI using the APIs it needs.
Some examples include:
A UI client creates a view in the global view tree, and within that view, presents graphical content to the user via a display.
A view is the common unit of UI organization between UI clients on Fuchsia. For example, a view can embed other views in a parent-child relationship, which recursively creates the view tree. At the top, the root view attaches to the display.
The Fuchsia platform may send a UI client a sequence of input events initiated by a user. Typically these input events are directed at the UI client's view. A UI client is then responsible for reacting to input events that are directed to its view; for example, it can update its graphical content based on a mouse click event.
