Ask Mendy 6 – User Interface
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Mendy Marcus
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018
In terms of the terminology used in some of the prior interviews, one of them is the initialism UI standing for User Interface. What is UI? How does this play an important role in the creation of an app?
I’m not a developer, so I will probably do a bar job explaining this but here I go.
The user interface (UI) is the visual aspect that you interact with, that then communicates with what’s known as the backend, I like to call this functions because I use Firebase Cloud Functions.
Although, all the user sees is the UI, the functions, or backend is the brain that know what needs to happen when the user interacts with a specific part of the UI, then there is the database.
This is where information is kept, so even though you are seeking a nice looking button, what it says in the button can be in the UI code itself or it can check in the database for some text to display in the button.
Mostly, an app deals with these three parts, but sometimes there can also be APIs used like if you want a map in your app; you’re not going to build mapping technology just so you can have one small map. You use Google Maps API. That lets your app communicate with Google Maps.
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