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Chen has been busy adding one of the more addictive features yet to Codename One: pull to refresh. If you are unfamiliar with the Twitter app, this feature essentially means that you pull the UI downwards from the top and an arrow appears indicating that the UI will refresh once you lift your finger. This is now baked into Codename One allowing you...

Today we are announcing the new affiliate program for Codename One. This effectively means you can advocate Codename One to your friends, colleges, complete strangers and get paid if they sign up for a paid account for up to two years! You can read about the affiliate program and how you can start earning today right here....

The title of this post might be a bit misleading... Hamburger? The Hambuger sidemenu is the menu style popularized by the Facebook app, its called a Hamburger because of the 3 line icon on the top left resembling a hamburger patty between two buns (get it: its a side menu...)! Up until now these things were a pain to implement smoothly in Codename...

First, let me start with an apology for not blogging as frequently. Its been hectic these past few weeks and I could barely find the time to write this! That's generally a "good thing(tm)". One of my favorite things about working with Codename One is the GUI builder, it solves a lot of the headaches of handcoding/positioning elements into place es...

We've just launched a new library project type for Codename One, this is very preliminary but we think this is pretty much the final direction we will take with the Codename One library support. To get started just create a new project and select the Codename One library project as your option. This will generate a cn1lib file when you build the ...

Tel Aviv, Israel - Mobile development platform Codename One is announcing the launch of its 1.0 version on Tuesday, January 29. After releasing in beta last June, Codename One – the first software development kit that allows Java developers to create true high performance native mobile applications across multiple mobile operating systems using a s...

Due to technical reasons in our website we had to dump blogger which served us well until now. We aren't deleting the blog but we will try to move it to this domain....

They say that today all companies are software companies. In less than 5 years all companies will be mobile companies. So why isn't Oracle "getting it", why aren't they on the iPhone, on Android and even Windows Phone? This OTN thread has been going on for some time now with people constantly chiming in with various uninformed opinions regarding ...

Answering common question is what a FAQ is usually for, but usually that's just not enough. A common presentation tip is: "Show, don't tell". Which is why we launched the "How Do I?" section in the Codename One website, this section contains short video tutorials demonstrating how to do small things in Codename One from creating your first Codenam...

Thanks for answering our questions about what you want in Codename One 1.1, your answers were very interesting and your comments are always helpful. Before getting to the actual results I'd like to cover some of the comments made in some of the responses which I think broadcast that we need to communicate what we have better: A frequent request i...