I’m answering questions in the Code Ranch this week about Create an Uber Clone in 7 Days. So far I’ve had some pretty great ones, if you have a question join the conversation for a chance to win a free copy. To qualify just ask in the Android forum and make sure to qualify it … Code Ranch Questions

Finally after all this time you can buy the Uber book today in both in Kindle and print versions! Notice that the kindle pricing is currently very low due to Amazon’s restrictions. Once the Amazon exclusivity expires the price of the ebook will go up. Notice that the book is also available on all Amazon … Uber Book is Out! (And JDK 11 Support)

If you aren’t using properties with Codename One, you probably should. Here’s a post I wrote a while back covering them, it should give you a lot of reasons for this. We are slowly integrating them into API’s such as Rest and as a result the code is simpler. A huge bonus is the type … Table Property Mapping

When we announced the migration to the new cloud servers one of the casualties was the cloud email API. This was a well intentioned API for sending an email from an app. Unfortunately we didn’t understand the complexities of modern mail systems well enough when we came up with this API. It turns out that … SendGrid cn1lib

We added a lot of features and fixed bugs over the past couple of months and I’ve been a bit lax on blogging. I’ll try to fix that as we approach the revised 5.0 release date. One of the big changes we added over the weekend (it will be in the builds on Friday), is … Rest API Error Handling

Starting this weekend builds sent using the old plugin or an old project will fail. You will need to update the plugin to 4.3 (or 4.0.3 in NetBeans) or newer. This is an important phase in removing App Engine from our build stack and moving to a new system. If you are experiencing problems with … Ending Support for Legacy Cloud

I used to do a lot of enterprise consulting in the day and used to lecture a lot on J2EE (as it was known back then). A lot of that knowledge isn’t as applicable even in the server side today, but the algorithms are surprisingly even applicable in mobile. One of the algorithms I would … TIP: Use the Two Phase Commit Algorithm for Offline Support

The most common question we get about Codename One is: “Is Codename One Free”. The direct answer is “Yes” but we don’t want to mislead. You can work with the open source code, which is just as free as any other project. But it’s not for the faint of heart…​ The build servers have quotas … Increase your Build Quotas

I’ve been working on the new “Create an Uber Clone in 7 Days” book for ages. After so much work this is finally almost done! We have a release date: August 16th (yes 2018!). You can already pre-order the kindle edition but you’d get it for free if you buy the print edition which for … Uber Book Release Date

Steve just implemented one of the harder RFE’s we had in a while. It isn’t finished but we can already try some of these features and you should be able to try some of these rich types of push messages. The difficulty stems from the way these push messages are implemented differently in the native … Rich Push Notifications and Improved Validation

Over the weekend we migrated a huge amount of code to the new build servers. In this post I’ll try to cover three separate things. I’ll explain the architecture/history and process of the migration. What worked, what didn’t work and lessons learned. And finally how this will impact Codename One users moving forward. I’ll start … Migrating from App Engine to Spring Boot

This is important! We will replace the entire build infrastructure of Codename One over this weekend. That means that you might see disruptions in service through the weekend but please report them to us as we might not be aware! We are finally removing the last remaining pieces of the horrible mess that is Google … New Build Cloud