ForgeUI Studio v3.0.0
ForgeUI Studio continues to evolve into a complete visual development environment for ESP32-P4 and LVGL 9.
This release represents a significant milestone, bringing together the visual designer, generated runtime APIs, hardware integration, documentation and website into a unified workflow.
Highlights
Visual Studio
- Improved Canvas authoring experience
- Browser Preview parity improvements
- Expanded standard LVGL widget support
- Improved Theme Manager
- Dashboard Layout Designer
- AI-assisted layout generation workflow
- Hero Background support
- Improved project organization
Runtime Generation
- Generated LVGL 9 UI
- Generated Runtime API layer
- Developer-owned
95_UserEventshooks - Standalone ESP-IDF project export
- Clean regeneration workflow
Hardware
Hardware proven on ESP32-P4 including:
- Display
- Touch
- Wi-Fi Manager
- Storage / SD Manager
- Display brightness control
- Generated runtime APIs
- Native LVGL integration
Documentation
- Expanded Documentation Centre
- Developer Code Map
- Generated API reference
- Hardware Integration Guide
- Getting Started Guide
- Updated website and UI Library
Tested Environment
- ESP-IDF 5.5
- LVGL 9
- ESP32-P4
- Waveshare ESP32-P4 Touch Display
What's Next
Development now shifts toward:
- Smoother Canvas interaction
- Editable UI project export/import
- Ready-to-flash Showcase Projects
- Additional dashboard templates
- Continued Studio polish
Thank you to everyone following the ForgeUI Studio project.
Scott Forster
Creator & Lead Developer — ForgeUI Studio