LWUIT 1.5 Released (finally!)

After multiple delays we are thrilled to announce the release of LWUIT 1.5 which you can download here. This is probably the biggest, most complete release of LWUIT since version 1.0 hit the scene, it includes both groundbreaking changes and refinements to LWUIT core features.

The major features of this release are:

• GUI Builder With major revamp of the Resource Editor tool


• LWUIT4IO a tightly integrated Storage, Networking & Filesystem framework with ports to multiple platforms


• Far deeper theming including, theme constants, declarative style inheritance, disabled styles etc.


• New JavaSE & CDC ports allowing easier debugging/testing/profiling on the desktop as well as easier demos by deploying LWUIT applications as applets


• New Components:
  • ContainerList allows variable row size list & complex list layouts
  
  
  • Tabs supersedes the TabbedPane providing swipe gestures, elaborate theming and much more
  
  
  • Slider provides progress indication and gauge control
  
  


• New recommended project structure for demos allowing for easier porting to RIM/Desktop/CDC


• PeerComponent allowing the embedding of native components within a LWUIT UI (applicable on some platforms)


• Improved & simplified animations for layout effects


• Multi-Images and improved SVG support


• HTML 4 tag support and public parser API for HTML/XML


• Virtual Keyboard is now builtin to LWUIT with deep support for native VKB input and toggling between multiple VKB's


• Focus rewritten from scratch to be more intuitive 


• Performance/RAM improvements


• Drag & Drop API, copy and paste API and much more