We made a lot of changes to Codename One over the past week but eventually decided to postpone the plugin
update to next week so we can do more work on the GUI builder. We have quite a few new features and fixes lined
up for next week already.
On stackoverflow things were as usual:
how to use phone contacts instead of gmail contacts for social app in codenameone
Getting device contacts is actually easier than getting gmail contacts
New GUI builder from CodeNameOne introduces exception?
There seems to be a problem in the GUI builder IDE integration, this should be fixed in the next plugin update
Save a photo with a specific name and compressed size in codenameone
You can select the size in megabytes in advance but you can monitor the size and control it via resolution change
Java 8 and Java time
Codename One supports a subset of Java 8 with subset being an important keyword here… I’d like to explain this
into greater details, perhapse with a blog post
Convert time to utc
Timezones are a pain no matter which technology you use, they are just awful
Install Error for iOS
Ideally we’ll mirror and eventually remove the appspot servers completely
iOS Build Server Issue
With the update coming out today we should have more logging that will allow tracking down these issues
Reflection not working in ios in codename one
Dynamic class loading “might” work but it isn’t reliable across platforms and might run into issues with obfuscation
or optimizers. You should use class literals instead
Codename One and jformdesigner
Some AWT/Swing GUI builder code can be copied to Codename One “as is” with package names and a few class
name changes
Sidemenu customization
We don’t currently support tinting the form on which the side menu is overlaid
How to change the background of an SVG in Codename One
Codename One doesn’t really support SVG’s. We convert them to PNG when importing them to the IDE.
We might improve on that in the future but the demand isn’t great…
How to kill web browser instance after close form
You can explicitly call destroy() but often you need to sign out first
Java Scanner – Mobile App Build Error
Sometimes in the attempts to workaround/fix a problem you create a bigger problem.
how to show gmail contact in android after signin with google in codenaoneone
You can access the Google+ contacts as well as the on-device contacts
Invoke codename code from native interface
There are several tricks to do this listed in the developer guide…
AdMob ads not showing in iOS
This isn’t the first time banner ads posed a problem, we made a mistake when we integrated them into the build
flow and should have integrated them as a cn1lib
showForm – java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
The error message from the simulator is somewhat unintuitive sometimes as it is wrapped in the simulator code.
The actual exception was the NullPointerException below the InvocationTargetException
Codenameone plugin giving null pointer exception
Handling the case where the .gui file is missing or in a different location is a bit problematic in the various IDE’s.
Graphics drawing code generates blank images, only on iOS
This is covered in an issue submission so we need to evaluate this thru the issue
Getting line numbers in stack traces
We use the Android VM as-is so the stack trace lines are pretty much what Android gives us
