Simulate It

One of the things I really don't like about mobile development is the simulators. For those of you who might not know it, I was a member of the WTK (Sun Wireless Toolkit) 1.0 team and Chen was the lead for the Sprint WTK. So we have lots of experience in building device simulators and working with Simulators/emulators.

Despite our best efforts the experience of working with a simulator sucks there are better and worse simulators but the fact still remains that you can't provide the same tooling/ease of use that you get when developing "proper" Java SE  code.

As part of Codename One we intend to revolutionize simulators by providing the worlds simplest simulator, it supports proper device scaling (where the fonts are scaled separately to keep them readable) which allows developing on smaller screen sizes. Its wicked fast, highly pluggable, customizable and most importantly completely open source.

Check out the quick demo above and notice how the simulator adapts to different devices resolutions/scaling. I didn't show off some of the nicer things such as its ability to assume native device themes since the tzone demo enforces its own theme.