title: Good mobile oriented GWT widget library alternatives
body: <p>I've been developing a travel planning site - <a href="http://www.tripgrep.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">tripgrep.com</a> - which is built on appengine, GWT and <a href="http://code.google.com/p/smartgwt/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">smartgwt</a>, among other technologies.  It is still early days, and the site is now working well on my development environment, which is either a windows or mac computer.   </p>
  
  <p>However, I am frequently talking up the website to my friends when we are at a bar or other venue, so I am standing there while they try to access the site via an iPhone, Android or Blackberry - I've witnessed all three.   It has been painfully obvious that the browser based frontend takes a long time to download on a mobile device.  I am pretty sure this is because of the javascript download for SmartGWT.    </p>
  
  <p>So, I would like to look at alternatives to SmartGWT.</p>
  
  <p>What I like about SmartGWT is that it has a reasonable look and feel out of the box - I don't need to learn any design or css and it has an office application look.  This is considerably better than the GWT built-in widgets, which just get a blue border.   The better look-and-feel is why I went with SmartGWT early on.   However, the slow load times are killing me on these mobile demos.  So now I want a fast loading widget alternative that has good look-and-feel out of the box.    </p>
  
  <p>The features I care about are: tabs, good form layout, Google maps API integration, grid data viewing.  If those are all available in a library that loads quickly on a mobile device, then that's the library I want.  </p>