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Devices have sensors such as accelerometer, GPS and up until now our support for them was relatively basic.
Chen recently introduced a cn1lib that includes support for various types of sensors on the device. Check it out if you need support for such API's.

When Codename One packages applications into native apps we hide a lot of details to make the process simpler. One of the things we had an issue with is getResource/getResourceAsStream both of which are problematic since they support hierarchies and a concept of package relativity.
That's a concept that is problematic in iOS, generally everything about file access within the bundle in iOS is a bit problematic to accomplish in a cross platform way because Apple tries so hard to "simplify" and ends up creating fragmentation for us.

Up until recently we had to handcode validation logic into every form, this becomes tedious as we work thru larger applications. Some developers built their own generic logic, which leads to obvious duplication of effort. In the interest of keeping everything together we decided to release a standardized validation framework that allows us to define constraints on a set of components, mark invalid entries and disable submission buttons.

As part of tracking a bug in iOS media playback Steve hit upon some code that recreated the OpenGL framebuffer pretty much all the time. This was there to allow device rotation to work, but was implemented incorrectly...
After this fix animations and UI is much smoother on iOS, if you notice any potential issues let us know.

Its been a long weekend, but now that its finally over the long and tedious migration to github is almost completely behind us. Make sure to update your URLs to the new repository at https://github.com/codenameone/CodenameOne/. There are still some references to the old google code repository in the plugins etc. so you should update them when we release the next update. Furthermore, if you used our custom update centers make sure your update center doesn't reference a googlecode URL!

As you may know Google is ending support for Google code effectively forcing us to migrate to github. While we like a lot of things about github their 1gb per workspace restriction makes the migration process rather difficult since we have to manually delete some histories for binary files we committed into SVN.
Making matters worse, Google's so called "automated tools" are ridiculously simplistic and don't support anything like this or migration of more than 1000 issues!

Using Codename One's new graphics pipeline it is now possible to start playing with other cool visualization technologies like GeoJSON.

Now that the new website is live we are down to standard business again beyond just the typical bug fixes. Chen just updated the gallery support to include the ability to pick a video file and not just an image file...

The new Codename One website is finally live now and you can check it out in all its glory at codenameone.com. There are several things you need to know in order to make the transition smooth...

This website/blog has gotten really long in the tooth, we would have replaced it ages ago but since the build server is so tightly integrated in the code the effort to migrate was just too big. So recently we finally made the effort and migrated large blocks of code to be far more generic and we are now working hard on moving more than 3 years of content to the new website...