If you are an ISV partner OR an independent developer, I am sure you would have come across situations where you would want to display Salesforce data in a consistent style and experience with the rest of Salesforce platform. With the advent of Salesforce Lightning platform, the desire has only grown stronger and deeper for sleek responsive apps that perform well across a multitude of devices. Like many of you, we were hoping for an API which would give us the ability to produce custom apps that looked and behaved same as core lightning platform. Well, our prayers were answered, meet the new Salesforce UI API

Here are a few scenarios where you would use Salesforce UI API –

• Extract Data & Metadata in a single api transation
• Pre-built FLS & Sharing
• Form Factor aware
• Localization and Language support
• No additional API limits

You can learn more about this exciting API from here.