MATLAB Creating Graphical User Interfaces

Migrating GUIDE Apps to App Designer

App Designer is the recommended environment for building apps. Migrating your GUIDE

apps (GUIs) to App Designer allows you to take advantage of features that GUIDE does

not offer. For example, App Designer provides:

• An enhanced UI component set and design environment


• A robust programming editor and workflow


• The ability to create and share a standalone desktop or web app (requires MATLAB
  Compiler™)

If you have existing apps that you developed in GUIDE, consider migrating them to App

Designer using the GUIDE to App Designer Migration Tool for MATLAB on

mathworks.com.

Features of the Migration Tool

The migration tool helps you convert your apps by reading in a GUIDE .fig file and

automatically generating the App Designer equivalent components, layout, and code in

an .mlapp file. This semi-automated code conversion also a creates a migration report

that suggests next steps for any manual code updates that may be needed. Some features

of the tool are described in the table below.

Migration

Tool

Features

Description

File

Conversio

n

Read in a GUIDE .fig file and associated code and then generate an App

Designer .mlapp file.

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