The material design floating action button is a powerful tool for promoting an action within your application. Quite a few Codename One developers implemented with own interpretation of this UI element and with the coming update we will have an official implementation. The FloatingActionButton is a round button that resides on top of the UI … Floating Button

Circles and completely round border sides are problematic for multi-resolutions. You need to draw them dynamically and can’t use image borders which can’t be tiled/cut to fit round designs. Up until now we recommended using background images or changing the design entirely but now we have a new option: RoundBorder. We designed the RoundBorder to … Round Border

When we designed the icon for the new Kitchen Sink demo we tried to use material design principals. We thought it would look reasonable on iOS but it looked awful. So we decided to adapt the design and create a separate yet similar icon for iOS. This is actually quite common but many developers aren’t … Different Icons

We made a lot of changes to Codename One over the past week but eventually decided to postpone the plugin update to next week so we can do more work on the GUI builder. We have quite a few new features and fixes lined up for next week already. On stackoverflow things were as usual: … Questions of the Week XXII

If you relied on the android.newPeer=false build hint it will no longer be available starting with this update. When you build for 3.5 you will still get the old behavior if you define that hint but otherwise it will be ignored. This is a precursor step to merging the newPeer branch into the main branch. … New Peer & GUI Builder Tree

The two key factors to improve any product are: get help from your biggest fans & learn from your detractors. Obviously there is a lot of nuance to that wide reaching advice…​ Rating widgets embody this advice. They prompt a user for a rating. If it’s good we ask him to review the app in … Rating Widget

Every now and again developers ask us how we do the graphics for our posts/promotions and up until recently the answer was “photoshop”. While knowing photoshop is still very worthwhile we still like these 3 tools that provide great shortcuts to creating both screenshots and art. The App Launchpad App Launchpad is a newcomer to … 3 Image Tools for App Marketing

The UWP (Universal Windows Platform) port is finally stable enough to get an app into the Microsoft store. Steve published out Solitaire demo into the Microsoft appstore and it passed thru the whole process. You can download it, install it on your device and try it. We’ll try to setup a company account to publish … First UWP App and the Way Forward

August is finally over and we can get back to our more usual brisk pace of progress! The xcode migration which was one of the biggest pains to go thru is also mostly behind us and we can now turn our gaze to improving Codename One and its general usage experience. This week was mostly … Questions of the Week XXI

In the coming update we have a new API to expand/collapse an Accordion component programmatically similar to the Tree component. To achieve this we introduced three new API’s to the Accordion class: /** * Returns the body component of the currently expanded accordion element or null if none is expanded * @return a component */ … Accordion Control & Xcode Migration Update

I try all things, I achieve what I can. — Herman Melville Moby-Dick Opening with a Moby-Dick quote seems rather appropriate for taking on the kitchen sink demo. It often seemed like a task that is too big and unsurmountable as we were working our way thru it. In fact the version that we are … KitchenSink II

One of the biggest changes we made in the past couple of years was the introduction of Java 8 language support features and making it the default target. We are now ready for the next step: removing compatibility for Java 5 targeted builds. Notice that this won’t break existing projects…​ They will compile with the … Java 8 & API 23 defaults