A few years ago a consultant convinced us to integrate Intercom into our website. In retrospect this was a mistake which I’ll discuss in more depth below. We are migrating away from Intercom right now…​ That means that if you have an email address or ongoing chat history with us in Intercom it might get … Moving Away from Intercom

Last week I pushed out an enhancement to ToastBar that changed the static showMessage methods. I made them return the Status object instead of void which would allow more control of the toast message after it’s shown. Unfortunately, I totally forgot that I can’t do that without breaking some binary compatibility. In Java return types … ToastBar Return Value

I’ve been so busy with the book I completely missed a lot of things I should have blogged about and one such thing is the NativeLogsReader cn1lib which has been in the extension manager for a while now. The NativeLogsReader cn1lib was created by Francesco Galgani to include native logging into the Codename One log. … Native Logging and Certificate Wizard Downtime

I’ve been working on a book form of the Uber Clone module in the course. I finished the principal writing quite a while back but unlike the course a book requires more back and forth. I’ve already gone through the first review cycle and it has made the book much better as a result. There … Uber Clone Book

As I mentioned the other day, we have a lot of new features and announcements. Today I’d like to discuss the upcoming right side menu bar and new tab order functionality. Right SideMenu The old SideMenuBar supported the placement of the menu anywhere we want. We could place it in the left/right/top or bottom. The … Right SideMenu and Tab Order

I have a lot to write about so today I’ll only focus on two of the several PR’s we handled over the last month. I’ll try to cover more over the rest of the week. Also as a friendly reminder we will migrate to API level 27 this Friday and the price of the online … Set Properties, Density PR and Short Material Icon Syntax

This is important: We’ll update the build tools & build target to API level 27 with next weeks update (June 8th). We HIGHLY recommend you check your app before we flip the switch! I also just uploaded the final lesson in the Facebook Clone App which is now fully live in the online course. I’ve … Moving to API Level 27 and Facebook Clone is DONE!

One of the worst components in Codename One is the picker component. It’s origin lies in the migration to iOS 7 where the native picker introduced a 3d effect that was hard to replicate with our old graphics layer. We had no choice. We used a native widget for that picker and regretted that decision … Lightweight Picker, Device Detection and More

Up until last Friday CSS support has been a second class citizen, with the release of Codename One 4.2 we’re making CSS a core feature. We also improved the builtin CSS support extensively! Changes you make to a CSS file will instantly reflect in the simulator. You don’t need to compile or do anything special. … Live CSS Update

One of our enterprise accounts is working on a complex GIS application that needs fine grained control over mapping. In this case features such as native maps aren’t useful. For some GIS applications the old MapComponent is more useful as it allows working with domain specific data. One of the features he needed was spatial … Spatial, Pluggable SQLite

I mentioned before that I’m really behind on the Facebook Clone module but at least I was able to release the first few lessons by today which makes it fit into an April deadline. I’ll try to release new lessons every day so we can do have the full module out before the end of … Facebook Clone Slow Landing

This weekend we pushed out an update that also included new versions of the GUI builder and the designer. We didn’t update the plugins but we still think it warrants the 4.1 version moniker even though we don’t support it in versioned builds. Due to one of the enhancements we added in this update we … Version 4.1 and Launch Screen Storyboards