Blog - Page 76

We constantly try to improve the performance, speed and build speed of the various ports most importantly the iOS port. Steve found out a while back during his investigations that the synchronized keyword is especially slow in our iOS port, this is something that isn't trivial to fix in the port itself. I made some work the past couple of days of ...

We now have new support for GZipInputStream and GZipOutputStream thanks to the great work done by the guys in the JZLib project, we ported their work into the project class hierarchy and added a GZConnectionRequest which will automatically unzip an HTTP response if it is indeed gzipped. By default this class doesn't request gzipped data but its pr...

Apple just announced iOS 7 support the other day and it includes quite a few UI changes. We are already working full speed at incorporating support for iOS 7 before the general availability of the OS and have already released an initial skin through the OTA download feature (it will only work properly with the next plugin update). The trend toward...

Codename One Maker is a pretty elaborate app, there is only so far we can go with simplifying the app itself. So we added a tutorial mode which is common in mobile/web apps, to walk the user through the process of creating a simple application and using the GUI builder (we also added a Udemy course but I digress). This feature is probably useful f...

We've got many requests in the past year for a cryptography API, initially we thought about adding something like this to the core but it seems somewhat niche so we decided to wrap up this great open source project and re-package it as a CodenameOne lib.The project is supported on all CodenameOne platforms right out of the box without any changes. ...

One of the things we've been working on with Maker is getting the new GUI builder to support hierarchies/layouts which should be landing tomorrow or so. When we initially built the GUI builder within the Codename One designer we made many mistakes but one of the big ones was with layouts, it takes too long to see how a layout affects something (you...

The PC isn't going away tomorrow but I think we took a major step in reducing the need for it when building some applications in the upcoming version of Maker. We just launched a very preliminary preview of our new Drag & Drop form designer for Maker. This is pretty rough early on, but having built quite a few GUI builders I can tell you that its 9...

We just released an initial preview of Codename One Maker into Google Play to start soliciting feedback on what we got wrong and what we need to improve. Let us know what you think and how we can improve it in the future. We already intend to produce some of the following: 1. Drag and drop form builder - this won't be a full fledged GUI builder (...

We are about to release a brand new product: Maker. Codename One Maker is an App that allows non-developers to build native applications directly from their mobile phone or tablet by using the Codename One backend. The tool is relatively simple and produces "cookie cutter" applications, however we think that you would be able to build amazing plugi...

Mobile development platform Codename One is announcing the release of its 1.1 version on Monday, May 20th. Less than 4 months after releasing its 1.0 version, Codename One doubled its user base becoming the 5th most downloaded NetBeans plugin of all time and more than doubling builds on its cloud servers month over month. Codename One is a one of ...