SLATE - a native modern templating engine for mobile devices

slate is a light-weight NATIVE cross-platform( android - windows phone ) templating engine for mobile devices. Slate templates are available currrently for android and windows phone. They allow cross-platform UI development allowing you to create native UIs for both android and windows phone.

platform	notes
	currently available for android, see sample app
	currently developed for windows, sample app not yet available

example

Here is a sample template in slate that generates a fully NATIVE UI for android and windows phone. Slate support tags that are similar to html. The templates are very easy to learn and use, almost 40% to 60% smaller than native android xml layouts, offer data binding and many other features. See the wiki page and www.slatetemplates.com for more information.

live use

Slate templates are used in a live android calendar app on google play. The templates are used to generate cards or what we call "boards" on the home page. Check out Slate Calendar for live examples.

sample code for above week forecast

template.core
{
// Loop through calendar and show all data for that day.
// This includes day/date/weather/first event time
			
   @each ( day in @calendar.days limit=4 )
   {
	list.col2
	{
		h6.dayName  @day.dayName			  
		text6.cell	@day.dayDate
		img.iconSmall	@day.weatherImage
		text6.cell	@day.tempHigh
		text6.cell	@day.tempLow
		text6.cell	@day.firstEventTimeAsText
		text6.cell	@day.totalEventsText
		text6.cell	@day.totalBDaysAsText
	}
   }
}

goals

Here are some of the top uses for slate templates for both personal projects as well as commercial. Please note this is the first initial release of slate templates ( in beta ) and we will soon provide a beta 2 version.

#	goal	approach
1.	NATIVE	fully native templating engine converts text to native mobile controls
2.	multi-platform	templating engine converts text to native adnroid / windows phone controls
3.	minimal typing	size is 40 % to ** 60% ** less than xml !!!
4.	simplicity	ease to use elements and attributes
5.	familiarity	similar syntax to html and css
6.	flexible styling	tag elements with styles like in CSS
7.	data-binding	supply data to your templates ( mostly logic-less )

See wiki page for more info !

Visit www.slatetemplates.com