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UIKit is insipired by the <a href="/wiki/AppKit" title="AppKit">AppKit</a> found in the <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a> <a href="/wiki/Cocoa_(API)" title="Cocoa (API)">Cocoa API</a> toolset and, like it, is primarily written in the <a href="/wiki/Objective-C" title="Objective-C">Objective-C</a> language. UIKit allows the use of hardware and features that are not found in macOS computers and are thus unique to the iOS range of devices. Just like AppKit, UIKit follows a <a href="/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller" title="Model–view–controller">Model–View–Controller</a> (MVC) software architecture. </p><p>UIKit contains a different set of <a href="/wiki/Graphical_control_element" class="mw-redirect" title="Graphical control element">graphical control elements</a> from AppKit. Tools for developing applications based on UIKit are included in the <a href="/wiki/IOS_SDK" title="IOS SDK">iOS SDK</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="UIKit_in_relation_to_other_layers">UIKit in relation to other layers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=UIKit&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: UIKit in relation to other layers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>iOS, watchOS, and tvOS technologies can be seen as a set of layers, with UIKit at the highest level and the core operating system / <a href="/wiki/Kernel_(operating_system)" title="Kernel (operating system)">kernel</a> at the bottom. </p><p>A hierarchical view of the iOS, watchOS, and tvOS technologies can be shown as follows: </p> <ol><li>UIKit</li> <li>Media / Application Services</li> <li>Core Services</li> <li>Core OS / iOS kernel</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Main_features">Main features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=UIKit&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Main features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some of the main features and technologies of UIKit are: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <ul><li>App Extension</li> <li>Data Management</li> <li>Handoff</li> <li>Document Picker</li> <li>AirDrop</li> <li>TextKit</li> <li>UIKit Dynamics</li> <li>Multitasking</li> <li>Auto Layout</li> <li>Storyboards</li> <li>UI State Preservation</li> <li>Apple Push Notification Service</li> <li>Local Notifications</li> <li>Gesture Recognisers</li> <li>Standard System View Controllers</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Main_frameworks">Main frameworks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=UIKit&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Main frameworks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>UIKit provides the key <a href="/wiki/Software_framework" title="Software framework">frameworks</a> for developing applications on devices running iOS, and is based atop <a href="/wiki/Foundation_Kit" title="Foundation Kit">Foundation Kit</a>. Other frameworks built by Apple that complement AppKit are: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col"> <ul><li>GameKit</li> <li>MapKit</li> <li>Address Book UI</li> <li>EventKit UI</li> <li>Message UI</li> <li>Notification Center</li> <li>PushKit</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ports">Ports</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=UIKit&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Ports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a>'s <a href="/wiki/WinObjC" class="mw-redirect" title="WinObjC">WinObjC</a>, the <a href="/wiki/GNUstep" title="GNUstep">GNUstep</a>-based iOS bridge for the <a href="/wiki/Universal_Windows_Platform" title="Universal Windows Platform">Universal Windows Platform</a>, contains working implementations of frameworks such as Foundation, UIKit, and MapKit released under the <a href="/wiki/MIT_License" title="MIT License">MIT License</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the UIKit implementations is based on <a href="/wiki/XAML" class="mw-redirect" title="XAML">XAML</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Various efforts have tried to bring UIKit to macOS: </p> <ul><li>Chameleon is a port of UIKit to <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a> from 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>ZeeZide's UXKit is a more recent port of UIKit to macOS. It exists a layer above AppKit and UIKit.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Apple used a "UXKit" private framework for a 2015 version of Photos.app.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Apple made the bridge more official with the "iosMac" or "Marzipan" project in 2018, which put an "iOSSupport" directory full of iOS frameworks in <a href="/wiki/MacOS_Mojave" title="MacOS Mojave">macOS Mojave</a>. 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class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">OS<wbr /></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/IPhone_OS_1" title="IPhone OS 1">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IPhone_OS_2" title="IPhone OS 2">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IPhone_OS_3" title="IPhone OS 3">3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IOS_4" title="IOS 4">4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IOS_5" title="IOS 5">5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IOS_6" title="IOS 6">6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IOS_7" title="IOS 7">7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IOS_8" title="IOS 8">8</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IOS_9" title="IOS 9">9</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IOS_10" title="IOS 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