State of GWT Widgets, Themes, and Styles

We used GWT some years ago and are now starting to use it again for our web and mobile apps. Before diving head-first into code we did some research on the market for GWt widgets, themes or styles. Overall, the situation is not so promising.

Themes:

• How to use themes: http://code.google.com/intl/de/webtoolkit/doc/latest/tutorial/style.html
• How to style widgets: http://code.google.com/intl/de/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideUiCss.html
• GWT (since version 2.x) comes with 3 default styles: Standard, Chrome and  Dark. They look like this (Screenshot). 
• Since Feb 2011: Clean theme. Demo: Default widgets in Showcase sample app 

Widgets:

• Widget gallery in Standard theme
• Same widgets in Showcase sample app (Clean theme)
• Experimental widgets from GWT team
• Sencha GWT = ExtGWT, cool look with effects for $330 per developer | Demo - 4 themes, choose top right
• Why are there not more widget sets here?

Mobile widgets

• gwtmobile.com. Demo: Desktop browser: demo.gwtmobile.com | Mobile browser: demobile.gwtmobile.com. Supports PhoneGap. (from guy who build gwt-phonegap wrapper)
• gwt-mosaic | 1 developer, last commit July 2011, some real-world usage, no live demo
• Sencha Touch -- there IS a free license | Demo
• NEXT very nice, but seems rather unknown | Demo looks very mac-ish

Helper frameworks

• For using MVP: http://code.google.com/p/mvp4g/ OR http://code.google.com/p/gwt-platform/
• Gquery is like jquery, but in Java