Long Term Support GUI application

I am working on developing lab for an undergraduate course. We have had quite a trouble with change in MATLAB version. The previous lab application was built using GUIDE. I plan on improving upon the previous application and make it long term support compatible.

What would be the best method to follow, for developing an GUI with LTS and and compatible for future versions of MATLAB?

Answer 1

[Taylor]

You'll want to switch from GUIDE to App Designer for future support

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/migrate-guide-apps.html?s_tid=CRUX_lftnav

[Preetham Reddy]

Will App Designer have support for all the upcoming versions of the MATLAB? And be back compatile across all the devices.

[Taylor]

Yes, App Designer will be supported going forward. The ability to create and edit apps with GUIDE will be removed in a future release. App Designer was introduced in R2016a so it is not supported before that release.

[Steven Lord]

Will App Designer have support for all the upcoming versions of the MATLAB? And be back compatile across all the devices.

How far forward and backwards are you considering? By the time we get to R2099b it's not out of the realm of possibility (IMO it's extremely likely) that App Designer will have been replaced by a newer app creation tool. Similarly, if you're asking if an App Designer app can run in (as an example) release R12 (from 2000) the answer is no, the tools in MATLAB that App Designer needs didn't exist back then (most notably classes defined using classdef files weren't introduced until much later.)

What does "long term" mean for you? What range of releases are you hoping to be able to use to run your app?

Assuming a reasonable range, I agree that using App Designer is likely your best approach.

[Preetham Reddy]

As mentioned in the previous thread I am working on an undergrad course. Hence I am looking forward for the support upto 5 years.