This tutorial is starting to get interesting…​. In this section we’ll go deep into animations, special effects, search styling and extracting contacts. In the previous sections we built the first form of the app, logged in and now we need to show the actual login form. Even more importantly we need to show it with … Building A Chat App With Codename One Part 4

We’ve released a burst of small new features that piled up during the code freeze and release cycle, we also have a couple of interesting 3rd party efforts such as an independent Windows Phone port and websockets implementation. But first lets start with Facebooks “invite friends” feature. Historically with the Facebook API you could just … Invite Friends, WebSockets, Windows Phone & More

In the previous section we went over the login with Google process, in this section we’ll go over the login with Facebook. At this time we’ll skip the “invite friends” option since that is blog post all on its own and we can just add that functionality to the completed application. Facebook has a “get … Building A Chat App With Codename One Part 3

We are thrilled to announce the immediate availability of Codename One 3.1! Version 3.1 is the first release in our fast pace release cycle of 4 releases per year. It brings stability, bug fixes and great new features to the table. The biggest highlights of this release are support for Java 8 and simplified certificate … Codename One 3.1 Now Live

In the second part of this tutorial we will cover the login process for Google and getting a unique id. We’ll try to write generic code that we can later reuse for the Facebook login process. But first lets cover what “signing in” actually means…​ When you handle your own user list and a user … Building A Chat App With Codename One Part 2

We just entered code freeze preparing for the release of Codename One 3.1. This is a one week freeze that is scheduled to end on July 28th after the release of the new version. In the next week we will only be working on critical bugs for stability and won’t add new features. After the … Codefreeze For 3.1 & News

In this tutorial we will cover the basics of building a good looking chat application with Codename One that will work on all mobile OS’s. We will cover everything from design to social network login and the actual chat behavior. This tutorial is for a hand coded application mostly because GUI builder tutorials require video … Tutorial: Building A Cross Platform Mobile Chat App for Android, iOS (iPhone) With Codename One Part I

Its been a busy month and getting busier by the moment, we are preparing for App Engines suspension of its blobstore service which will be coming around soon. This effectively means older crash report email functionality will be stopped for older apps (just rebuild the app for the emails to work again). We are also … Codename One 3.1 & Easier Iteration

So you have finished your app and tested it on the simulator. Everything looks good. You’re now ready to proceed with testing on your iPhone. You select the “Send iOS Debug Build” menu item and wait for the build server to work its magic, but then you’re faced with a notice that iOS builds require … iOS Certificate Wizard

When we introduced Codename One initially we limited the API to CLDC level which is roughly a subset of Java 1.3, we then added support for a subset of Java 5 and we are now adding Java 8 language features! Thanks to some work from Steve and the great work done by the guys from … Java 8 Support

Facebook & Google login have been a source of a bit of pain mostly because of the obtuse and confusing documentation from both companies. Chen spent some time writing up tutorials for both Facebook Login & Google Login that should help you get started with applications that use such login options. Future Of Windows Phone … Login Tutorials & Future Of Windows Phone

Eric Dodji Gbofu has been working on a Codename One book in French for the past year and it finally came out! I’m still waiting on my copy mostly to show to French speakers we meet (I have a very hard time picking languages), I’m pretty sure its a cool book. Chen and I wrote … Book & Continued Migration