LavaUI is a declarative UI framework in Swift that draws with Vulkan. Views are written the way SwiftUI writes them; underneath, Yoga lays them out, HarfBuzz shapes the text and one pipeline draws everything, in a window of its own or as a client of the Lava compositor.
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Views, state, layout, drawing, input and the app loop.
2261 declarations · 882 documented
Opens an app as a window or as a compositor client, chosen at run time.
6 declarations · 5 documented
Runs an app as a client of the Lava compositor, with no GPU of its own.
88 declarations · 70 documented
Text editing without a GPU: cursors, selection, undo, search, wrapping.
142 declarations · 65 documented
Application menus as data, for whatever draws them.
118 declarations · 26 documented
The compositor's control plane: fonts, images, surfaces, present and input.
327 declarations · 199 documented
A Swift UI framework for a Wayland desktop where applications have no renderer at all. They write draw commands into shared memory and stop. One process owns the GPU for the whole desktop.