Screen

How it is used

Used constantly in design reviews, tickets and test steps: home screen, detail screen, 'go back to the previous screen'. In UIKit code a screen is often a view controller, on Android an activity or fragment, and in SwiftUI or Compose a view or composable.

Example sentences

1. After a successful payment, the user should land on the order summary screen.

2. This screen has too many buttons; let's move some of them to a menu.

Common collocations

• home screen
• login screen
• screen size
• navigate to a screen
• previous screen

Related terms

• componentA reusable, self-contained piece of a user interface, such as a button, modal or product card, with its own markup, styles and logic.
• navigation barOn iOS, the bar at the top of a screen that shows the title, a back button and action buttons; on Android, the name also refers to the system bar with the back and home controls.
• view controllerIn iOS UIKit, an object that manages one screen or part of a screen: it loads the views, responds to user actions and handles events such as the screen appearing.
• activityIn Android, a core app component that represents one screen with a user interface and has its own lifecycle, from being created to being destroyed.
• screen densityHow many pixels a screen has in a given physical area, measured in dots per inch (dpi); high-density screens need larger image files to look sharp.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• screen · Mobile App Development
• screen · Psychology

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