"If I had to choose a startup to invest in this year, it would have to be Codename One. [...] I expect them to experience significant growth in 2013." [read more...]
"Write once, run everywhere: Codename One brings its mobile app development kit out of beta" [read more...] 
"Codename One is the only Java iOS tool that currently comes close to the old "Write once, run anywhere" mantra, and it provides the most coherent development experience. I recommend checking it out if you're looking for a cross-platform environment for writing mobile apps." [read more...]
"Codename One [...] stands to drastically change the rate and cost at which developers will churn out new mobile apps." [read more...]
"Codename One is open-source and uses special lightweight technology that eliminates fragmentation and offers developers a platform for mobile application development as easy as desktop development." [read more...]
"The Java development/debugging is done entirely locally, but when building for the device, the cloud portion does all the heavy lifting," says Shai Almog, CEO of Codename One." [read more...]
"As Americans continue to acquire a wide array of mobile devices, platforms like Codename One will mean big things for startups and individual developers looking for an easy way to jump in on the trend." [read more...]
"There haven’t been many solutions for efficient cross-platform development—until now. An Israeli startup, Codename One, is offering the very first software development kit that allows Java developers to create mobile applications for multiple mobile operating systems, using just one code base." [read more...] Codename One, which has already attracted hundreds of clients including mobile giants like Vodafone, is a powerful tool for mobile developers worldwide and will play a central role in defragmenting the mobile apps space." [read more...] 
"The software solves complex problems that usually face developers and entrepreneurs trying to hop on the mobile apps trend, helping developers to quickly create and distribute their apps with little headache. The best part? The platform is completely free." [read more...]
"That's why Codename One has developed open-source software to save developers the time and resources it takes to get their apps launched. The software allows developers to write code for a mobile application only once in Java and have it work across all platforms" [read more...] 
"Codename One is a Java-based platform which asks developers to write the code once in either Eclipse or NetBeans, and more importantly, developers need to build all of the different app components from scratch. This allows Codename One to avoid fragmentation issues with any mobile platforms. From there, Codename One translates the code into the native code of each platform, rather than HTML5 which is what other toolkits tend to do. So, on iOS the Java code will be translated into native C/Object C code and compiled using Xcode." [read more...]
"The platform's beta version, which released in July, reached 100,000 downloads this month. So far, it has been used to build more than 1,000 mobile apps in a variety of categories ranging from sports to business and everything in between. " [read more...]
"A new, Java-based platform which allows mobile application developers to [create native] mobile apps across multiple platforms with a single code base has been launched, courtesy of two former Sun Microsystems engineers." [read more...] 
"We say we've been working on it for a year, but really we've been working on it for about six years or so," Codename One co-founder Shai Almog told ADTmag." [read more...]
"Developers use Codename One to create all components from scratch, instead of using native widgets, which process aims to avoid fragmentation. The company argues that this approach also supports more accurate desktop simulation of mobile applications." [read more...] 
"The platform is currently in beta but InfoQ downloaded it and took it for a test drive. It seems pretty far along. To build your code, you point their cloud-based website to your codebase. The code is uploaded and compiled, producing a QR code that you can use to download and install the finished product on your device. Intrigued we interviewed Shai Almog, cofounder and CEO, about their recently announced Windows Phone support and to find out more about the company." [read more...]
"Fishbein was the man behind Java ME’s Swing-inspired Lightweight User Interface Toolkit (LWUIT), that aimed to make it easier to develop interfaces for embedded devices. With Oracle being neither mobile or client oriented, solving the issues in-house just wasn’t an option in the end." [read more...]
"A result of development by Israel-based former Sun Microsystems employees Shai Almog and Chen Fishbein, Codename One is a lightweight tool capable of producing native interfaces and is described as "highly differentiated" from other cross-platform mobile development toolkits, which typically use HTML5 or heavyweight technology" [read more...]
"Codename One is the first mobile software development kit that allows Java developers to create native mobile applications across multiple mobile operating systems using a single code base." [read more...]
"While working at Sun, Shai and Chen were forced to work on feature phones, while major companies were already adopting LWUIT for use on smartphones. The pair decided that they could [create] a more powerful, simpler solution compared to anything else on the market if they worked outside of Sun" [read more...]
(translated) "These set of tools are crucial for many developers, since the option of developing an application once and launching it concurrently on multiple platforms and markets is a huge advantage especially for a newly launched startup." [read more...]
"The tool is Java-based, open source and lightweight. It's designed to translate Java byte code to C/Objective-C code on the company's cloud servers, and then to compile the resulting source code to native applications using X-code on cloud-based Mac machines. The result, the company says, is iTunes-compliant applications." [read more...]
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Press Releases
May 20th 2013: With 200,000 SDK Downloads, Mobile Development Platform Codename One Announces Version 1.1
January 28th 2013: With 100,000 SDK Downloads, Mobile Development Platform Codename One Comes Out of Beta With 1.0 Launch
August 23rd 2012: Vserv.mobi powers App Monetization for Codename One developers
June 4th 2012: Former Sun Microsystems Engineers Transform App Development Industry With Groundbreaking Tool
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