We just updated the library with our last ad hoc release, starting next week we will release libraries every Friday
and occasionally also a plugin update within that same proximity. We made some refinements to some
Android theme elements and one of those refinements is a new TitleArea drop shadow.
This effectively creates a situation where we can’t reasonably detect an empty title and so if you want the title
to truly disappear you can either:
-
Set the
TitleAreaborder attribute to empty -
Do something like
form.getToolbar().setUIID("Container")
We released an update for the Eclipse plugin but are experiencing some issues with the NetBeans update
center which we will hopefully resolve before the weekend.
As a side note we are working hard to re-imagining the IntelliJ/IDEA plugin, but our current approach will
probably still rely on Ant instead of a move to gradle or maven. Both of these seem like really good ideas
on paper but at the moment they might not be as convenient. I’ll try to write a bit on the process as we
move forward and have a clearer picture on this.
NativeInterface Generics
The NativeInterface API’s haven’t changed much since their inception but we just committed a small
nice to have feature.
Up until now if you wanted to get a reference to your native interface you would have to do this:
MyNativeInterface m = (MyNativeInterface)NativeLookup.create(MyNativeInterface.class);With the new version you can now do this:
MyNativeInterface m = NativeLookup.create(MyNativeInterface.class);That’s a nice trick generics can pull off by setting the method signature to:
public static <T extends NativeInterface> T create(Class<T> c);I wasn’t a big fan of generics when they came out and I still don’t like the declaration of the method but the end
result is really nice.
Documentation Update
We are on the brink of 700 pages for the developer guide and I think we’ll finish just shy of 1000 for this iteration.
This work is taking some time but it’s totally worth the effort as the level of the documentation is at a league
of its own. E.g. check out the IO section in the guide here.
The original was remarkably bare and didn’t cover so many basic things that should be covered e.g.
the webservice wizard, SliderBridge
etc…
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I’m really excited about the updates to the Android toolbar and will try it out as soon as the netbeans plugin is updated. Well done!
The documentation looks fantastic. I remember this being one of the things that always made me hesitant to recommend CN1 to others in the past. Seeing what’s there now, that hesitation is gone.
Netbeans plug in is taking too long, cant the plugin be hosted on your site as well since you updated us netbeans has issues for now.
We are communicating with them: [http://forums.netbeans.org/…](http://forums.netbeans.org/viewtopic.php?p=169246#169246)
We used to have our own host but maintaining both was a pain and bred confusion for developers.
This isn’t a big deal since the libraries/simulator etc. are all updated instantly as we release them.
Okay thanks for the clarity.