The SQL demo has been on my “todo” list for months. It’s really hard to create a compelling demo for something as boring (by design) as SQL so this was a big procrastination target. After we built the SQL explorer tool for the developer guide it became apparent to me that this could be the … SQL Demo Revisited

In the previous template post I introduced a material design inspired theme. This time the theme I chose is simpler “cleaner” but not necessarily easier to integrate. I’ve had quite a few difficulties wrestling with Photoshop oddities (bugs?) that made this template painful, hopefully I’ve narrowed down the process enough so this should become easier. … Template – Clean Modern Cross Platform Mobile UI Kit

We previously discussed the problems with List and somewhat neglected ComboBox which is a subclass of List. ComboBox has the dubious “honor” of deriving most of the problems List has and adding a slew of its own problems such as two separate renderers, different behaviors between OS’s etc. In addition mobile OS’s don’t really have … TIP: Don't Use ComboBox

This has been a REALLY busy week. We had to release an emergency plugin update during the week to workaround a critical issue in the previous plugin update. This was pretty hard! To make things extra difficult we had two huge blog posts that I’ve worked on launching, the code itself wasn’t such a big … Questions of the Week XXVII

There was much left unsaid about the template UI that I did earlier in the week. It was doable & reasonably easy but I still had some pitfalls. I was able to circumvent them easily but I’m not so sure these would have been easy for other developers out there. As a result we decided … MSUIKit Template Inspired Changes

We get contacted quite a bit about the prospect of porting applications that were already written using the Android API. In this quick tutorial we will walk you thru the paces of converting a simple Android application to a Codename One application. We will also start with some basic tips covering the differences between Android … How to: Port Native Android App to iOS (iPhone) Guide

Generating a template from a PSD isn’t hard but it isn’t a trivial task either, in this recurring segment I will try to generate good looking Codename One templates from freely available PSD files. Since this requires some effort I don’t think I’ll be able to keep this as a weekly segment but I’ll try … Template – Mobile Material Screens UI Kit (Cross Platform PSD)

Google Play Services is a proprietary set of tools that Google licenses to vendors under limited conditions. In recent years more and more features go into Google Play Services making it harder to build an app without it. In our effort to “do the right thing” we include some of the Google Play Services tools … Tip: Disable Google Play Services

As you may recall most of us are on vacation and the few of us who are not have to work even harder than usual to keep things chugging along. I’m in India for October (not on vacation) which slows down my work even further outside of my “home base”. We’re releasing a much needed … Questions of the Week XXVI

Chen has been working quite a bit on the new GUI Builder and made some significant changes both to it’s look and functionality. These changes are wide reaching covering the appearance, functionality and stability of the GUI Builder. Figure 1. Starting page after recent changes see if you can spot them all…​ Palette Relocation The … Further Refined Cross Platform Mobile GUI Builder

We’ve mentioned the progress we made with the Universal Windows Platform support in the past. This support is moving at a very fast pace…​ By now we support SQLite as well as Media, Capture and a slew of other features that weren’t available for the initial beta. At this rate we think that 3.6 can … UWP Update

As we discussed before October will be relatively slow, this means that our original plan of a December release for 3.6 will be challenging and produce a sub-par release. In the interest of making 3.6 a more significant release we decided to postpone it to January 16th 2017. The code freeze for this release will … Pushing Back 3.6