New Servers And Internationalization

Its been a busy week with the LTS session, we barely had time to do much. However, we did do quite a lot of work during this week including some improvements for l10n and new server deployments.

Those of you who followed the l10n video in the How Do I? section or our Udemy course should be familiar with the really cool seamless localization support available in Codename One. However, to translate the application we usually need to send the files to a professional translator...

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Seven

Its been a long time coming, the main delay in getting iOS 7 support into your hands has been with the need to upgrade all the servers. Apple seems to require OS upgrades as well when it updates xcode so we had to go one by one and update everything.
This is now all in place and you can start building apps that take advantage of iOS 7 functionality and are built using xcode 5.

When you send an app to the build server without doing anything it will still be built with the existing iOS 6 theme and xcode 4.5 and will act like it has for the past year or so. However, we now provide you with the ability to use xcode 5 for building and indicate a theme mode.
There are 4 theme modes:

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Property Of The Client

One of the really useful features in Codename One that many developers are just unaware of is the client properties trick. Every component in Codename One has a Map (Hashtable) associated with it containing arbitrary objects you can store in association with that component.

To use this feature you can just invoke putClientProperty(propertyName, value); then getClientProperty(propertyName) to extract the property.

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You are cordially invited

 
This has been a busy week, I am gearing up for my LTS lecture on the 30th. Its free for everyone and I hope you all tune in to watch it!
The subject matter should be interesting to all Java developers and its essentially how you build a cross platform solution implementation, you don't need any knowledge of Codename One since I won't be discussing it much. Its about device issues and how these work with the JVM. So feel free to distribute this to your friends who aren't necessarily Codename one developers.

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iOS Code Signing Fail Checklist

This is one of the biggest FAQ's we get on the mailing list: I followed the iOS signing tutorial or video tutorial and still didn't succeed in signing (notice that you need to actually read the links above, the certificate you get from the apple website is not enough!).

How do I debug something like this?

Notice that some of these signing failures will sometimes manifest themselves during build and sometimes will manifest during the install of the application.

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