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The status bar is the area where notifications, status icons, battery charge icon, and device time are displayed. You can modify its looks from Tabris application using StatusBar singleton instance. Here…

A ToggleButton behaves just like a checkbox. It is a checkbox that looks like a button. When pressed - if previously unchecked, it becomes checked. If previously checked, it becomes unchecked. This…

The NavigationBar is only found on Android. It is located along the bottom of the screen and consists of a back button, a circular "go to home" screen button, and a square that displays your recently used…

This is a widget that can be used to draw graphics using a canvas context, which is a subset of the HTML5 CanvasRenderingContext2D. Just like with a <canvas> tag it allows you to create simple geometrical…

This widget can display content from a web page. There are two ways of providing content for a WebView. First, you can fill the url property to get HTML from a source. It doesn’t mean that you will always…

A Drawer is a partial content view that slides out from the side of the screen. It can be expanded by swiping left to right, and hidden again when it’s no longer needed. The Gmail app, for example, uses…

An ActivityIndicator informs the user to wait for some work to complete. The Widget shows a loading animation that should end when the job is done. The ActivityIndicator is one of the simpler widgets…

This widget allows you to implement a “pull-to-refresh” function and a “loading” indicator to visualize a long-running task. There is an option to disable the refresh component, so RefreshComposite…

This widget can switch between Tabs. It extends Composite class, and its child widgets can only be Tabs. TabFolder does not compute its size, meaning that its width and height must be defined by the respective…