# CGI Panel Overview

The CGI Panel (Player) is an application which provides insides into a generic CGI Studio application driven by the courier messaging framework. It also provides samples of several features. These features are core components like showing or hiding views or trigger animations but also sample implementation of models with databinding.

On top of that, the CGI Panel (Player) shall be an application to test and play around with an asset and the functionality of the framework itself. The focus is not on the customer specific logic but on the core logic of the customer’s specific asset. Therefore, some of the content within the application is not required for customer made applications. Especially the Features and Sample Components folder.

For more information on CGI Panel, please refer to this <span style="color: rgb(230, 126, 35);">[Chapter](https://doc316en.candera.eu/books/player)</span>.