Continuing the trend I revisited the old crash protection video in the “how do I” section and updated it with current information and details. The old video still featured an old flag that should be avoided…​ The new video is relatively short and simple as the feature isn’t very complex, I hope to produce several … Tutorial – Crash Protection

I already have half a post on text components but I’ve put that on hold for now as I’ve been working on the on-top side menu to supersede the existing side menu bar implementation. I’ve made some fixes for it over the week, I wanted to make it the default for Codename One apps but … Pixel Perfect – On Top Menu

A very common question we get from developers is “how do I get the devices phone number”. The answer is “you can’t really and you shouldn’t”. To clarify, this is possible on Android but would require a scary set of permissions. It’s blocked on iOS completely though so you’d need a different solution anyway…​ If … TIP: Send Device Activation SMS via Twilio

I redid the include source tutorial which was really old by now and included some outdated “facts” while missing key information. Include source allows us to get the native OS project source code on build, this allows us to debug and profile on the devices. New Codename One users often mix up native interfaces and … Tutorial – Include Source

A common trick for gaining traction is localization to multiple languages, Codename One makes that very simple as we explained here. However, unless you are fluent in multiple languages you will need some help to localize broadly. There are multiple paid services that address this need. There are a couple of pitfalls you can fall … TIP: Outsource App Translations

I haven’t blogged as much in the past month and as a result I have a big pile of updates from all over. This is going to be a big list so I’ll start with a few pull requests that were submitted by Diamond and Durank. If you see something broken or something that could … New Features and Pull Requests

The Michael Jackson documentary, “This is It”, included a behind-the-scenes look at Michael Jackson’s preparation for his final tour, that tragically would never happen. In one scene, he has an exchange with the keyboard player that goes roughly as follows: Michael Jackson (to keyboard player) : That isn’t right Keyboard player : How do you … Make it Look Like the Design

The summer is finally coming to an end but we might not get to full speed before mid September. Thankfully this didn’t impact Steve who did some pretty great things this August including a lot of GUI builder fixes/enhancements that we’ll cover with the next plugin update. But what we will have this weekend is … VM Changes and Updates

I’ve been working on the new pixel perfect post which I would like to focus around the text components, in order to do that I needed an underline border type. Historically this is something we shrugged off and pointed people at the 9-piece border. That was the wrong answer and it partially related to the … Millimeter Underline

Sometimes I get a question on stack overflow that triggers a “yes this should be easy” reflex. I got such a question a couple of weeks ago when I implemented the animated gif support cn1lib and I had another one last week which asked about sorting tables. This is actually pretty easy to do but … Sortable Table

So you know how you write a blog post just before you go on vacation, press publish and never check that it actually got published…​ Funny thing, that’s exactly what I did and the blog post mentioning that I was on “vacation” for a couple of weeks never got published. Anyway, other people have been … Animated Gif Support

Hopefully by now, most of you have had a chance to try out the new GUI Builder – specifically the new “auto layout” mode that allows you to position components with much greater precision than before. For this blog post, I have prepared a couple of video tutorials to walk you through the creation of … Responsive Sign-In Form Using New GUI Builder