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With CSS technologies it’s relatively easy to create a responsive design for your website. Depending on the sizeof the screen you can use a different CSS File and Layout. In JavaFX this might seem a bit harder at first sight, since CSS is only responsible for styling, but not for the layout. But using different FXML Files for the respective screen sizes and sharing a Controller is actually not that bad, and this way you can easily use SceneBuilder to preview the layouts on different screen sizes. In the code you either switch between the FXML-files depending on screen size, or you get rid of this by creating different deployments depending on the targeted device and copying the required files as part of your build.
But responsive design is not only be about size. For touch enabled devices it’s important to also use the right controls. At JayDay Jim Weaver gave an excellent presentation of how to create touch enabled UIs using JavaFX. You can download the presenation from the JayDay site: JayDay 2013. One of the things he proposes is to use the Pagination control, which is easier to use on a touch device than a TabPane.
Unfortunately that wouldn’t work well with our approach of reusing the controller, so we would have to create a Baseclass for the controller that has the common stuff and use
Source : http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/09/responsive-design-with-javafx.html
