Combining SalesForce and Codename One

This is a guest post by Bertrand Cirot, based on an original blog post that appeared here. Bertrand works as an SFDC, Flex and Java/J2EE developer in Switzerland. Closely interested in mobile device solutions, he writes on Tuto-CodenameOne.ch which proposes tutorials for the French-speaking community.

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While investigating the possibilities within Codename One, I made a discovery that I would like to share with you via this short article. But first lets discuss SalesForce, it is a CRM platform. Which has an advantage of an open Web Service API enabling it for use with Codename One.

This is an ideal combination that provides simple and effective customer management on all mobile devices.

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5 Tips for Gamifying Your Mobile App

This is a guest post by Yaniv Nizan who is the CEO and Co-Founder of The SOOMLA Project, the platform for Creating In-App Purchase Stores for Mobile Games. Yaniv also writes in 4 different blogs including blog.soom.la, speaks in different industry events about gamification and game design and tweets @y_nizan.

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Gamification is the practice of using game mechanics in a different context with a goal to engage users

Mobile apps are in fierce competition these days. There are over one million apps available in the different marketplaces and while a user may install a large number of apps on his device. Recent research by Flurry shows that users don’t use many apps for very long and in fact only 25% of the apps survive after 3 months.

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Performance Improvements On iOS & Some Other News

The other day one of our pro users sent us an app he is working on (which looks great and will hopefully be submitted to the gallery), he was experiencing major performance degradation on iOS compared to Android. Initially I couldn't find anything wrong with the app so I started debugging and benchmarking the hell out of it.

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Pull To Refresh & Several New How Do I videos

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 instantly add this sort of UI pattern!

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