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Mobile Touch GUI SDKs

One of the major leeks of the Win Mobile is the fact that the GUI are stylus-oriented but not designed for finger-based use.

This controls are also not have nice looking (not to say ugly) and not even close to the modern looking applications that have a finger-based UI as Apple iPhone and other devices

Since Microsoft doesn’t supply the needed controls I started to search for alternatives to use in my applications.

As expected I found few commercial solutions and also some free SDK libraries, here are the list of them.

 Commercial:

• Resco MobilForms Maybe the most complete framework for mobile development, also the most expensive as I know. Price: from $749.95
• beeMobile4.net Another rich library.  Cost 259.95 €
• Mirabyte The core component of Mirabyte controls is Touch ListBox, a flexible multipurpose list control that can be used for any kind of menus, lists or item viewers. Price: 49.95 EUR
• DevSlide: Finger friendly.NET components library for MS Windows Mobile application development. price from 499 $

Free:

• Fluid Touch Controls Library Open source library, As the Mirabyte, based on Touch ListBox and few other controls by michyprima
• Manila Interface SDK   by michyprima , A collection of few very nice touch controls, including list, buttons, radio and check boxes.
• SliderList control by Obelix, Kinetic scrollable list with functional items, very easy to implement, I used it in my DataController application.
• Sense Interface SDK  by eboelzner. Another collection touch controls, in addition to the michyprima’s SDK it have a very good numeric selector and TrackbarItem.