Hi! Sorry for the late answer! :) We know each other <-- silentsnooc from gitter :)
I was asking here because I would have been interested in hearing the opinion of other users. Since I am using this tool now too I am kind of interested who else is using it :) Personally I think GWT Material Design is really great. It is awesome how fast I can make a design that looks quite professional from just a few lines of XML. So if anybody has experience with GWT Material Design and wants to share his or her opinion let us/me know :) BR; Stefan On Friday, 19 February 2016 01:51:49 UTC+1, Gilberto wrote: > > Hi Stefan, > > I'm an active contributor to the project, and I only became a contributor > after seeing how productive and fun it is to build cool stuff - and of > course after seeing that the team is inspired and productive. > > Currently I'm using GWT Material in two different projects. In one, I'm > porting an old GWT app (made without UiBinder), converting all those > VerticalPanels and Cell Widgets to the new, responsive components of GWT > Material. I'm always submitting patches to make that process easier. > > On the other project I'm building a new app from scratch. The projects are > completely separate from each other - they have no shared codebase. So I'm > dealing with both perspectives: creating a new app, and porting an old one. > > I'd say that porting is not trivial. But it's not GWT Material's fault: > I'm trying to convert a complete tabular app to a responsive design one, > and that's no easy task. Maybe I could blame GWT to make me think that > using Vertical/HorizontalPanels would be a good idea. But the App is old > (the first version was released in 2011), so there's a lot of cleaning to > do. > > There are plenty of components there are just like the AWT/Swing analogue: > AWT has a Button, and Swing a JButton. In GWT we have a Button as well, and > on GWT Material, a MaterialButton. And that applies to several components, > such as MaterialListBox, MaterialCheckBox, MaterialTextBox and so on. So > that's not the hard part. The hard part is to make everything responsible > and fluid, and GWT Material does a really good job helping you on this, > with the row/column system, the predefined 3 screen sizes for the whole > application, and so on. > > When creating a new app, everything just work. Of course eventually you > find something that needs some tweaking, but the framework is getting > mature and more feature complete on a fast pace. It already has more > components than its parent project, Materializecss. > > So I think it worth a try, at least on a small project, for you to see if > it fits your needs. I'm a experienced GWT developer, and the project > surprised me on how easy is to create stunning apps without trouble. One of > the main complaints about the pure GWT is the poor Widget library. GWT > Material fixes just that: you can have a small client compiled code, > type-safe environment, same object model shared between server and client, > AND a stunning, responsive and fluid UI too. > > -- > Gilberto > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
