This morning I was awoken by myself – or rather the 1985 version of myself. He (I’ll refer to the 1985 version of myself in the 3rd person here forward) was in a panic and was yammering about something to do with changing history. He asked why my pants were inside out, and I wondered … I Am Your Density

Codename One provides you with the tools to craft a visually stunning and unique user interface via its pluggable look and feel. For simple use cases, you can define styles entirely by setting style properties either in code or the resource editor. However, to achieve best results (for anything more complicated than a solid background … Rounded Corners, Gradients, and Shadows with CSS

Since we announced the new GUI builder work we got quite a few questions in the discussion forum and offline so I prepared a quick video showing how the new GUI builder will look when released (more or less). Notice that a lot of things will change with the GUI builder but some things are … GUI Builder Walkthru

This is the third and final instalment in a series on integrating 3rd party native SDKs in your Codename One application. If you missed the first two chapters, I recommend you begin with part one before reading this tutorial, as it provides much needed context for the procedures described here. Part 2: Implementing the iOS … Integrating 3rd Party Native SDKs Part III

Codename One 3.2 is scheduled for Tuesday the 27th of October. In keeping with our successful 3.1 release we’ll use a very short one week code freeze on the 20th of October at which point we will only commit crucial fixes with code review. I hope we can land quite a few new features for … Release Plan For 3.2 & New Approach To Demos

This blog post is part two in a three-part series on integrating 3rd party native SDKs into Codename One application. I recommend you start with part one in this series as it will give you much-needed context to understand the procedures described in part two and three. In part one, we described the design and … Integrating 3rd Party Native SDKs Part II

We are happy to announce support for local notifications on iOS and Android. Local notifications are similar to push notifications, except that they are initiated locally by the app, rather than remotely. They are useful for communicating information to the user while the app is running in the background, since they manifest themselves as pop-up … Local Notifications on iOS and Android

This past Thursday, we held our fourth webinar, and the topic was how to incorporate 3rd party native libraries into a Codename One app. I used the recently released FreshDesk cn1lib as a case study for this webinar. As the topic is a little involved, I decided to break it up into two webinars. In … Integrating 3rd Party Native SDKs Part I

The excellent Parse4cn1 library just announced version 1.1. The biggest new feature is batch operations but there are a few others that could be helpful. Overall the library was pretty solid before the 1.1 version and this is a nice improvement on top. Fabricio Cabeca contributed an interesting pull request that has the potential to … Updated Parse Lib, Tiling Performance, Decimals & Trees

Our GUI builder is the result of many twists and turns in our product line mostly due to corporate bureaucracy hacks and last minute deadlines from our days at Sun. Its also written using Swing which is pretty much a dead end API that isn’t seeing any maintenence and since FX is even worse off … New GUI Builder

This will be the last installment of this tutorial which was pretty complete in the previous section already. We might have additional installments mostly for covering enhancements such as “invite a friend” and other similar capabilites but this is probably as good a place as any to finish the app and let you try it … Building A Chat App With Codename One Part 6

This past Thursday morning, I hosted our third tech-talk/webinar for the community. The first two included tutorials that were targeted at absolute beginners. This time I wanted drill down and cover a more advanced topic: creating themes. Codename One provides extensive support for designing beautiful user interfaces, but it isn’t necessarily obvious to new developers … PSD to App: Converting a Beautiful Design into a Native Mobile App