Modules

Here are the types of UI modules and how they fit together.

• Arrangement - These modules generally have a card slot which a Card can go into. They arrange a set of dynamically created cards on the screen.
• Banner - These modules represent a piece of data which is presented to the user, such as an app's logo or a search term.
• Card - These modules represent a document in the database of offline content, but are not a full View of the document. They display its metadata (title, keywords) in various ways.
• ContentGroup - This is the heart of displaying offline content. Content groups have selection and arrangement slots. They make sure the Arrangement receives (and creates Cards for) the records that the Selection wants to display.
• Controller - These modules define different types of app experiences. They are in charge of what happens when you click somewhere.
• Decoration - These modules are UI elements which are used for display only.
• Filter - These modules can be added to a Selection to display only some of its records.
• Layout - These modules contain submodules and arrange them on on page of the app.
• Navigation - These modules are UI elements which are used for navigation through an app.
• Order - These modules can be added to a Selection to change the sorting order in which its records are displayed.
• Pager - Modules can also act as pages of an app, like pages in a website. Pager modules contain submodules and display them one at a time, with optional animations between them.
• Selection - These modules retrieve content records from the offline content database. A Selection serves records through a ContentGroup to an Arrangement, which turns the records into Cards.
• View - These modules display the actual content.
• Window - These modules are the toplevel windows which contain other modules.

Here's a diagram of what contains what:

Controller
  Window
    Pager
      Layout
        Banner
        Decoration
        Navigation
        (more) Layout
        View
        ContentGroup
          Arrangement
            Card
          Selection
            Order
            Filter

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