Well, thanfully it doesn't have to take much to turn standard HTML inputs into the types of eye-catching animated UI common on mobile. Here are two snippets from sites I've built that I have isolated for re-use. Feel free to use them in your own projects:

- Smooth toggle checkbox http://codepen.io/tomhodgins/pen/vOKjXW

- smooth sliding radio button tabs http://codepen.io/tomhodgins/pen/zGYmor