Last time around we compared Codename One to QT and this time around I’d like to compare Codename One to the 800 pound gorilla: Xamarin. Xamarin is an amazing product that I contrasted with Codename One in the past but this is worth repeating. On it’s surface Xamarin might seem like a similar tool to … Comparing Xamarin and Codename One

Pumpop is a social networking app in the spirit of tinder that is available globally and installed on many devices all over the world. One of its major draws is it’s portability which will soon extend to Windows Phone as well. Pumpop uses social login controls such as native Facebook login as well as email … Featured App – Pumpop

With the 3.4 release we discussed the process of modernizing the demos and the first one we picked for this task is the camera demo which is probably the easiest one of all the demos…​ The demo is trivial and doesn’t really demonstrate anything other than capturing and showing an image captured from the camera/retrieved … Camera Demo

With the 3.4 release we discussed the process of modernizing the demos and also mention that we would continue the trend of building Codename One on top of itself. We now have a rough outline of what we are going to do possibly starting with the next plugin update. Java 8 Switch New builds will … Java 8 Switch, New Preferences & Demo Structure

Up until Marshmallow (version 6) Android used a rather obtuse permission system that very few end users understood. With API level 23 (Marshmallow) Android finally shifted to a structure that makes more sense similarly to iOS. Marshmallow asks a users permission the first time an API is used e.g. when accessing contacts the user will … Switching on Android Marshmallow Permission Prompts

I’d like to open this weeks post by covering some things we do and try to avoid on stackoverflow. I try to upvote your questions/answers whenever I can and most of us should upvote questions that are decent especially from a person who has low ranking and might not have the stack overflow experience to … Questions of the Week IV

The NetBeans plugins.netbeans.org site has been down for another weekend and has been down again today. This isn’t ideal as we like the convenience the official plugin center affords in our update process. However, this blocks installs and updates of our plugin most of which originate from NetBeans. As a workaround we decided to relaunch … NetBeans Plugin Update Center

For years we treated support with a “we’ll meet our developers where they are” attitude which is problematic now that we have more than 6 free support channels! Notice that we didn’t include the email/phone support for pro/enterprise users in the list of 6 channels…​ We try to respond to every query within 24 hours … Clarifying our Support

We are thrilled to announce the immediate availability of Codename One 3.4! Version 3.4 brings with it refinement and stability as its core features, this is a trend that we are very pleased with and intend to carry on to version 3.5. Highlights of this Release Rewritten documentation – the developer guide was written from … Codename One 3.4 Now Live

Fabricio just submitted a pull request that Steve merged to provide support for Windows Phone 8.1 in our new UWP (Universal Windows Platform) port of Codename One. This is huge news as it means we can fully migrate to the new port without leaving developers behind! This means we’ll be able to make the migration … Windows Phone 8.1 & UWP Support

We finally uploaded the last of the 3 hello world videos covering Eclipse, which now joins the ranks of the NetBeans and IntelliJ/IDEA videos. Check out the Eclipse version here: These are probably the three most important videos we have which is why we decided to start with them as part of our restructuring of … New Getting Started Video – Eclipse Version

We’re releasing new plugins today in for the 3.4 release, if there are major regressions we’ll push out new versions for the release itself but if they are stable they will be the actual release versions. We had a great week on stackoverflow as well with many excellent questions. As usual this post isn’t exhaustive … Questions Of The Week III