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I am curious to see if there is a difference between the words “UI” and “View”. I see UI can be classified as GUI, Voice User Interface, Commandline User Interface. But in our projects based on MVC/MVVM/MVP, we many a times interchange the term UI with View. I am little curious in knowing why 2 different words to represent the same thing ? Or what is the correct way of calling it ? (I know many people might say, its “View”, but still why we use the jargon UI ?)
The term user interface seems to be the correct term when you look at an application from a very abstract perspective. The user interface is simply the interface of an application the user interacts with.
The view, however, is more of a technical term.
As you already mentioned, a user interface sums up a very versatile set of things the user can use to interact with an application. The view is a specific type of UI, i.e. a graphical user interface made with a specific technology.