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Github Migration Completed

Its been a long weekend, but now that its finally over the long and tedious migration to github is almost completely behind us. Make sure to update your URLs to the new repository at https://github.com/codenameone/CodenameOne/. There are still some references to the old google code repository in the plugins etc. so you should update them Github Migration Completed

Github Migration Plan

As you may know Google is ending support for Google code effectively forcing us to migrate to github. While we like a lot of things about github their 1gb per workspace restriction makes the migration process rather difficult since we have to manually delete some histories for binary files we committed into SVN. Making matters Github Migration Plan

Geo-Viz and Codename One

Table of Contents What does the GeoViz Library do? What is GeoJSON? GeoVizComponent vs MapComponent vs Native Maps Key Features Basic Usage Step One: Load the GeoJSON file Step Two: Create the GeoVizComponent Implementing a Custom Painter I attended a tutorial at OSCON last year on HTML5 graphics where I was introduced to some cool Geo-Viz and Codename One

Gallery, Icons & Updates

Now that the new website is live we are down to standard business again beyond just the typical bug fixes. Chen just updated the gallery support to include the ability to pick a video file and not just an image file. The default functionality remains the same and compatible but now you can do something Gallery, Icons & Updates

New Website Now Live!

The new Codename One website is finally live now and you can check it out in all its glory at codenameone.com. There are several things you need to know in order to make the transition smooth. First is that the new website supports https thruout so you can just navigate to https://www.codenameone.com/ to get a New Website Now Live!

JBake & New Website Coming Soon

This website/blog has gotten really long in the tooth, we would have replaced it ages ago but since the build server is so tightly integrated in the code the effort to migrate was just too big. So recently we finally made the effort and migrated large blocks of code to be far more generic and JBake & New Website Coming Soon

Integrating Android 3rd Party Libraries & JNI

While its pretty easy to use native interfaces to write Android native code some things aren’t necessarily as obvious. E.g. if you want to integrate a 3rd party library, specifically one that includes native C JNI code this process is somewhat undocumented. If you need to integrate such a library into your native calls you Integrating Android 3rd Party Libraries & JNI

Flurry Interstitial Ads & Analytics

Chen was working with a customer that needed some specific ad network support and decided to open source some of that work. We now have integration with Flurry both for its ads and analytics support both of which are pretty cool and have some distinct advantages over the current Google equivalents. You can download the Flurry Interstitial Ads & Analytics

Codename One Graphics – Understanding Coordinates

Codename One provides a rich set of drawing primitives in its Graphics class. It allows you to draw text, shapes, and images to the screen. The position where these elements will be rendered is determined based on a combination of Graphics state information (e.g. the current translation, and transform) and coordinates that are passed to Codename One Graphics – Understanding Coordinates

Easy Demos, Flip & More

One of the pains in Codename One is the access to the demos, yes we have the downloadable demo bundle and the SVN but for a compete novice to Codename One this isn’t front and center. Chen decided to address that by embedding the latest versions of the demos both into the Eclipse and the Easy Demos, Flip & More

New Free Course: Learn Mobile Programming By Example With Codename One

This material is out of date by now. We recommend checking out the Codename One Academy. We just released a new online course on Udemy called “Learn Mobile Programming By Example With Codename One“. Before a single day went by we already have over 600 students enrolled which is pretty cool. This course is based New Free Course: Learn Mobile Programming By Example With Codename One

PropertyCross Demo

The new property cross demo shows off the usage of webservices, JSON parsing, infinite scroll, URLImage and lots of other Codename One features. It uses a UK webservice that allows listing properties for sale in the UK. We created a set of videos explaining how that demo works and the various features within it, check PropertyCross Demo