We’ve been so busy this past month that we just forgot mentioning many of the features that went into Codename One in June and there are MANY small features that just didn’t get a blog post or even a mention! We just open sourced a major piece of our backend code, the changes to retroweaver … Big Batch Of Features

We’ve had a long standing annoyance with Codename One’s RTL (Right To Left languages, e.g. Arabic/Hebrew etc.) where the back button was still pointing in the wrong direction on iOS. This was REALLY annoying to such a great extent that up until recently we recommended that people don’t use RTL on iOS devices. Well we … Longstanding Issue Of Back Button In BiDi/RTL

Note: skip to the bottom for some instructions on working with the BB Z10. Lately we’ve been asked by one of our pro customers to fix some issues which occurred only on the z10 device. I thought this would be an easy task: just grab the tools from the blackberry site and then use them … Hands-on With The Blackberry Tools On The Z10

We constantly try to improve the performance, speed and build speed of the various ports most importantly the iOS port. Steve found out a while back during his investigations that the synchronized keyword is especially slow in our iOS port, this is something that isn’t trivial to fix in the port itself. I made some … Improving The iOS Port – Moving To Full Java 5 Support

We now have new support for GZipInputStream and GZipOutputStream thanks to the great work done by the guys in the JZLib project, we ported their work into the project class hierarchy and added a GZConnectionRequest which will automatically unzip an HTTP response if it is indeed gzipped. By default this class doesn’t request gzipped data … GZip Support

Apple just announced iOS 7 support the other day and it includes quite a few UI changes. We are already working full speed at incorporating support for iOS 7 before the general availability of the OS and have already released an initial skin through the OTA download feature (it will only work properly with the … iOS 7 Support

Codename One Maker is a pretty elaborate app, there is only so far we can go with simplifying the app itself. So we added a tutorial mode which is common in mobile/web apps , to walk the user through the process of creating a simple application and using the GUI builder (we also added a … Walk-thru Tutorial

We’ve got many requests in the past year for a cryptography API, initially we thought about adding something like this to the core but it seems somewhat niche so we decided to wrap up this great open source project and re-package it as a CodenameOne lib.The project is supported on all CodenameOne platforms right out … Bouncy Castle Crypto API

One of the things we’ve been working on with Maker is getting the new GUI builder to support hierarchies/layouts which should be landing tomorrow or so. When we initially built the GUI builder within the Codename One designer we made many mistakes but one of the big ones was with layouts, it takes too long … When A Dialog Isn't A Dialog

The PC isn’t going away tomorrow but I think we took a major step in reducing the need for it when building some applications in the upcoming version of Maker. We just launched a very preliminary preview of our new Drag & Drop form designer for Maker. This is pretty rough early on, but having … Maker: On Device Drag & Drop GUI Builder + External 3rd Party Plugins!

We just released an initial preview of Codename One Maker into Google Play to start soliciting feedback on what we got wrong and what we need to improve. Let us know what you think and how we can improve it in the future. We already intend to produce some of the following: Drag and drop … Codename One Maker Is Now Live On Google Play

We are about to release a brand new product: Maker . Codename One Maker is an App that allows non-developers to build native applications directly from their mobile phone or tablet by using the Codename One backend. The tool is relatively simple and produces “cookie cutter” applications, however we think that you would be able … Introducing Codename One Maker