Simple UI Toolkit

The simple UI toolkit (suit) is a Java-based library of graphical components to be used in PDA and handheld devices with reasonable resolution. The suit library adds numerous components that are not available in the standard MIDP-1.0 API.

The MIDP-1.0 API is made to be used by different types of limited resource devices, such as cellular phones and PDAs. As a consequence, the standard MIDP API includes a very limited set of components that can be used because it must cater to the lowest denominator, such as a cellular phone. This leaves developers craving for a better set of components when writing for a PDA, for instance, which has a bigger screen and more memory. A PDA has a greater array of graphical interface components than a cellular phone, but these type of components are not available in the MIDP API because it cannot be supported by all MIDP-compliant devices.