Section 25.1 Introduction
• A graphical user interface (GUI) presents a user-friendly mechanism for interacting with an app. A GUI (pronounced “GOO-ee”) gives an app a distinctive “look-and-feel.”
• GUIs are built from GUI components—sometimes called controls or widgets.
• Providing different apps with consistent, intuitive user-interface components gives users a sense of familiarity with a new app, so that they can learn it more quickly and use it more productively.
• Java’s GUI, graphics and multimedia API of the future is JavaFX.
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