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Enyo (software)

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Developer(s)
  
LG

Operating system
  
Cross-platform

Development status
  
Active

Enyo (software)

Initial release
  
February 9, 2011; 6 years ago (2011-02-09)

Stable release
  
2.7.0 / April 1, 2016 (2016-04-01)

Written in
  
Object-oriented programming

Enyo is an open source JavaScript framework for cross-platform mobile, desktop, TV and web applications emphasizing object-oriented encapsulation and modularity. Initially developed by Palm, which was later acquired by Hewlett-Packard and then released under an Apache 2.0 license. It is sponsored by LG Electronics and Hewlett-Packard.

Contents

Bootplate

Bootplate is a simplified way of creating an app, providing a skeleton of the program's folder tree. The Bootplate template provides a complete starter project that supports source control and cross-platform deployment out of the box. It can be used to facilitate both the creation of a new project and the preparation for its eventual deployment.

Libraries

  • Layout: Fittables, scrollers, lists, drawers, panels.
  • Onyx: Based on the original styled of webOS/Touchpad design but available for use on any platform.
  • Moonstone: Used by LG SmartTV apps but available for use on any platform.
  • Spotlight: To support key-based interactions and "point and click" events on remote controls and keyboards.
  • Mochi: Advanced user interface library. It has been maintained by the community since the team behind webOS released this abandoned interface from Palm/HP as open source. This library is not included on bootplate right now, but has very good design documents.
  • enyo-iLib: Internationalization and localization library, it wrap ilib's functionality on Enyo apps. G11n was another library that has been deprecated on newer versions of enyo.
  • Canvas
  • Extra
  • enyo-cordova: Enyo-compatible library to automatically include platform-specific Cordova library (WIP).

    • Use

    The following projects are built with Enyo:

  • LG Smart TV apps.
  • Openbravo Mobile and Web POS.
  • xTuple ERP Web and Mobile App.

    • Partial list of Enyo apps can be found on Enyo Apps. Some developers can be found on Enyo Developer Directory.

    Examples

    This is an example of a 'Hello world program' in Enyo

    Supported Platforms

    In general, Enyo can run across all relatively modern, standards-based web environments, but because of the variety of them there are three priority tiers. At 2015 some platforms supported are:

  • Tier 1 Supported at high priority:

    • Packaged Apps: iOS7, iOS6 (PhoneGap), Android 4+ (PhoneGap), Windows 8.1 Store App and Windows Phone 8 (PhoneGap), Blackberry 10 (PhoneGap), Chrome Web Store App, LG webOS.

    Desktop Browsers: Chrome (latest), Safari (latest MAC), Firefox (latest), IE11 IE10, IE9, IE8. (Win).

    Mobile Browsers: iOS7, iOS6, Android 4+ Chrome, Kindle Fire and HD, Blackberry 10, IE11 (Windows 8.1),IE10 (Windows Phone 8).

  • Tier 2 Supported

    • Packaged Apps: iOS5, iOS4, Android 2.3,Firefox OS (pre-release), Tizen OS (pre-release), Windows 8 Store App, Windows (Intel AppUp).

    Desktop Browsers: Opera, Chrome >10, Firefox >4, Safari >5.

    Mobile Browsers: iOS5, iOS4, Android 4+ Firefox, webOS 3.0.5, webOS 2.2, BlackBerry 6-7, BlackBerry Playbook and others.

  • Tier 3 Partial support

    • Mobile Browsers: Windows Phone 7.5.

  • No support

    • Desktop Browsers: IE8

    Mobile Browsers: Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry 6, Symbian, Opera Mini

    References

    Enyo (software) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA