UIKit

E97039
software framework user interface framework

UIKit is Apple’s primary user interface framework for building and managing iOS app UIs, handling views, controls, event handling, and application infrastructure.

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All labels observed (9)

Label Occurrences
UIKit canonical 12
Cocoa Touch 5
UIKit for Mac (Mac Catalyst) 2

Statements (59)

Predicate Object
instanceOf software framework ⓘ
user interface framework ⓘ
developer Apple Inc. ⓘ
documentationURL https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit ⓘ
introducedIn iPhone OS 2.0 ⓘ
partOf Apple platforms APIs ⓘ
surface form: iOS SDK
platform iOS ⓘ
iPadOS ⓘ
tvOS ⓘ
watchOS ⓘ
surface form: watchOS (via WatchKit integration)
primaryLanguage Objective-C ⓘ
Swift ⓘ
provides Auto Layout APIs ⓘ
accessibility support ⓘ
alert controllers ⓘ
animation support ⓘ
appearance customization ⓘ
application infrastructure ⓘ
collection views ⓘ
controls and widgets ⓘ
document management ⓘ
drag and drop APIs ⓘ
drawing support ⓘ
dynamic type support ⓘ
event handling ⓘ
gesture recognizers ⓘ
input views and keyboards ⓘ
multitasking support ⓘ
navigation controllers ⓘ
navigation management ⓘ
resource management ⓘ
scene management via UIScene APIs ⓘ
scroll views ⓘ
segue navigation ⓘ
split view controllers ⓘ
state restoration ⓘ
storyboard integration ⓘ
tab bar controllers ⓘ
table views ⓘ
text handling ⓘ
touch handling ⓘ
trait collections ⓘ
view controller containment ⓘ
view management ⓘ
window management via UIWindow ⓘ
relatedTo macOS Cocoa ⓘ
surface form: AppKit

Core Animation ⓘ
Quartz 2D ⓘ
surface form: Core Graphics

SwiftUI ⓘ
WatchKit ⓘ
supports dark mode ⓘ
dynamic interface scaling ⓘ
localization ⓘ
right-to-left layouts ⓘ
usedFor building native iOS app user interfaces ⓘ
coordinating with Core Animation ⓘ
handling user interaction events ⓘ
managing app lifecycle ⓘ
rendering views on screen ⓘ

Referenced by (27)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Swift → usedWithFramework → UIKit ⓘ
subject surface form: Swift (programming language)
tvOS → usesFramework → UIKit ⓘ
this entity surface form: UIKit for tvOS
visionOS → includesFramework → UIKit ⓘ
this entity surface form: UIKit for visionOS
Cocoa → relatedFramework → UIKit ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cocoa Touch
SwiftUI → integratesWith → UIKit ⓘ
Objective-C → associatedFramework → UIKit ⓘ
Touch Bar → supportedByFramework → UIKit ⓘ
this entity surface form: UIKit on macOS Catalyst
OPENSTEP → influenced → UIKit ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cocoa Touch
macOS Cocoa → relatedFramework → UIKit ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cocoa Touch
NeXTSTEP → influenced → UIKit ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cocoa Touch
TVMLKit → relatedTo → UIKit ⓘ
this entity surface form: UIKit for tvOS
Quartz 2D → integratesWith → UIKit ⓘ
Apple operating systems → userInterfaceFramework → UIKit ⓘ
this entity surface form: UIKit (iOS, iPadOS, tvOS)
AVFoundation → frameworkLayer → UIKit ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cocoa Touch
Foundation framework → usedWith → UIKit ⓘ
macOS Accessibility API → integratedWith → UIKit ⓘ
this entity surface form: UIKit for Mac (Mac Catalyst)
Objective-C runtime → usedBy → UIKit ⓘ
this entity surface form: UIKit framework
macOS Big Sur → includesFramework → UIKit ⓘ
this entity surface form: UIKit for Mac (Mac Catalyst)
Quartz → usedBy → UIKit ⓘ
subject surface form: Quartz (Apple graphics)
MetalKit → integratesWith → UIKit ⓘ
Core Animation → integratesWith → UIKit ⓘ
Core Animation → layerBacks → UIKit ⓘ
this entity surface form: UIView
libSystem → dependencyOf → UIKit ⓘ
this entity surface form: UIKit framework
Application Kit → contrastWith → UIKit ⓘ
Apple platforms APIs → includesFramework → UIKit ⓘ
Core Text → usedWith → UIKit ⓘ
Apple Developer Documentation → documents → UIKit ⓘ