Techniques for navigation of hierarchically-presented data

An apparatus to provide a customized graphical interface comprising:

• means for organizing, with an application, data to be presented as a plurality of hierarchical views;
• means for generating a graphical interface to be displayed on an electronic device to display at least a subset of the data;
• means for displaying the graphical user interface by the application calling at least one native application programming interface at runtime, wherein the at least one native application programming interface provides graphical navigation of the data through the hierarchical views in response to user input.

An article comprising a computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions for providing a customized graphical interface comprising, the instructions, when executed causing one or more processors to:

• organize, with an application, data to be presented as a plurality of hierarchical views;
• generate a graphical interface to be displayed on an electronic device to display at least a subset of the data;
• display the graphical user interface by the application calling at least one native application programming interface at runtime, wherein the at least one native application programming interface provides graphical navigation of the data through the hierarchical views in response to user input.