Improved Native Look & Feel – We changed the core look of buttons, labels, text components, ripple effect and more. The goal is to make Codename One applications indistinguishable from native OS apps out of the box

Kotlin Support – Kotlin is now officially supported by Codename One and works out of the box

On Top Side Menu – The on top side menu adapts the side menu UI to render on-top of the application instead of below but it’s really a complete rewrite of the old SideMenuBar which was implemented in a problematic way. The new on-top mode works better with native peers such as maps and can be extended more easily

GUI Builder Styling Support – There are a lot of enhancements and refinements in the new GUI builder one of the big ticket features is the new style UI which allows you to style an element without leaving the GUI builder

Mac OS Appstore Support – We now support building signed Mac OS apps which means we now support all the major vendor appstores. We already support iOS/Android stores and Windows/Microsoft’s store (via the UWP port). The Mac appstore was the last major vendor whose store we didn’t support out of the box

Signal Handling & Fast UTF in ParparVM – ParparVM is our open source iOS VM. It now handles low level OS signals to catch illegal access and convert it to Java exceptions. This means performance is slightly better but more importantly: you can catch errors even when they originate from native code. We also made significant improvements to the UTF-8 decoding logic which should make apps that rely on localized data faster and more memory efficient

Theme Enhancements – We added many new capabilities into the Codename One themes specifically: Fractional padding/margin, Rounded border, Underline borders & more

Table Sorting – You can now sort a table by clicking on the column header

On device debugging – this was planned before for 3.7 but didn’t make it. We have a running proof of concept but that also highlights the amount of work needed to bring this to production grade. We didn’t think it will make it for 3.8 and I’m not optimistic about 4.0 with our current workload. We think this will be a great enhancement but right now we think theming is more important

Improved default themes & material design – we made huge strides in this area but we are still way behind and our demos still don’t reflect the progress we made. Hopefully by the time 4.0 rolls around we’ll be in a different place entirely

Theme & Localization – Steve added some better theming to the new GUI builder. We think we can improve on this further and generally improve theming. Localization is something that regressed a bit from the old GUI builder which allowed for great automatic localization. We need something more “seamless” in this department

The Uber style application

A social network style application

Better design

Better docs

More “ready made templates”

Spreading the word

Edit our docs

Edit our sources and submit bug fixes

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