Starting with the new version of the NetBeans plugin we will have the new settings/preferences UI which we introduced in the IntelliJ/IDEA plugin. Currently this will be in addition to the main preferences but as we move forward we will only add features to the new settings UI. You will be able to open the … New Preferences, Command State, Localization & Locking

We were stuck on an “old” version of xcode in the build servers. This hasn’t been a big deal for most features but in some cases we are running into issues e.g. in using the full capabilities of the new iPad or 3d touch. The reason for this is Apples backwards compatibility policy. Apple allows … iOS Server Migration Plan

PropertyCross is one of our newer demos, due to that there was relatively very little work needed to modernize it and this resulted in a stunning improvement over the existing demo. During that process we also discovered a small regression due to changed in the web service we relied on. Check the live version running … Property Cross Revisited

Sticky headers was one of the first big requests we said no to. Back in the day a lot of people asked for it but we always shot it down because it was too hard to implement on top of our Swing inspired lists. This predated our Container improvement, InfiniteContainer and InfiniteScrollAdapter. While our preference … Sticky Headers

One of our support emails drew my attention to a glaring ommission in our icon font support…​ When we create an icon for a Button it’s color matches the unselected color of the button which might not look as attractive when the Buton is selected or pressed! The thing is that with an icon font … Pressed/Selected Icon Font & UTF-8

It’s been quite a busy week with many changes and updates, some of those were in line for a couple of tools we plan to introduce over the next few weeks. This week I also placed an interesting thread from the discussion group. Normally I try to keep this focused on stackoverflow but if a … Questions of the Week VI

We’re all pretty jaded when it comes to software but when I first saw yHomework I was completely floored by it! Where was this tool when I was in junior high? If you haven’t seen yHomework in action I suggest you give it a try right now on your Android or iOS device. In a … Featured App – yHomework

One of the often requested features in Codename One is zip support, we had some issues with it until a couple of years back when we added tar and gzip support. But people still asked for standard zip file support which was missing. We’re working on a tool that we hope to share next week … Zip and Toast

When we initially launched Codename One it was pretty hard to imagine todays apps. Menus and back navigation were miles apart when comparing Android 2.x and iOS 4.x…​ So we created a very elaborate set of abstractions (command behavior) that served as a set of patch framework we could live with for a while. But … Toolbar Back & Easier Material Icons

This week we chose to modernize the very outdated Chrome Demo. This demo is one of our early demos developed during the iOS 4.x era. We licensed it’s original design from app design vault and created a Codename One version of that original template. While the guys in app design vault modernized most of their … Chrome Demo

We talked about the new Android 6 (Marshmallow) permissions in Codename One last week and so far we’ve been pretty happy with the result. We had some build regressions on the older Ant based build path but those were fixed shortly after and it’s been smooth sailing since then. As part of the transition to … Marshmallow Permissions in the Simulator and Native Code

It has been a very busy week around here with a lot going on. We’ve just sent out the Friday release update and we are gearing up for some other interesting things…​ These weekly question posts are really convenient as they help us center on what’s truly important – user support. We had a lot … Questions of the Week V