O'Reilly Blog, Sharing & Performance

I've just written a blog post for O'Reilly media and we'd very much appreciate it if you check it out, share it (ideally via the social media buttons on it) and spread it to your friends/colleagues. Please take the 5 minutes to do this as this would be very helpful for us. Thank you.

The ShareButton component in Codename One is one the most important pieces in making your app a viral success. In Android it fires the native share intent where you can select to distribute the app's message via a very wide selection of options. In other platforms you get a pretty narrow, fixed selection of options that is very cross platform since it uses Codename One's builtin capabilities.

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Fast Push Communication Using PubNub

This came out 5 months  ago but the guy from PubNub didn't update us on the status so we just didn't notice this until now. That's probably a good sign of us being too busy. There is now official PubNub integration for Codename One, which means you can get push like fast 2 way communications between devices without writing too much code.

How does it work?
PubNub has CDN like operations around the world, this means they can keep a high performance channel to your devices and send peer to peer or server/peer messages REALLY fast. 

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Preparing For 2.0

We are now finalizing the features for Codename One 2.0. Yes we are skipping the 1.2 revision and going up to the 2nd generation which we feel is warranted given the amount of features added since the May release of 1.1.
We will make the release in December which we will probably spend in code freeze so you won't see new features from us during that month that are not bug fixes or completely separate features (e.g. IDEA plugin).

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LTS Blog Post And Updates

The guys at LTS just published a post I wrote in their blog, if you are reading this thinking "I'd like to read another 5,000 words from that guy" then head to their blog.

Speaking of promoting other people I hope you filled the developer economics survey, its really helpful for us and time is running out (they are closing the survey soon). They added additional language options which you can use that might make the process faster.


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Spinning Natively And Windows Bug

Shai Ifrach spent the weekend fixing one of the harder Windows Phone issues we had, sometimes on some Windows Phone devices the UI would start with a black screen but never when connected to the debugger! Ugh.
Turns out this is a race condition related to using the wrong lifecycle callback (which is used by all of MS's demos)!
Kudos to him because I spent just about ages trying to tackle that issue unsuccessfully, this should now allow us to move forward with some of the additional issues on Windows Phone and hopefully bring the port up to the level of the other ports we have or at least a little bit closer.

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Video Of LTS Talk

The video of the LTS talk is now live, unfortunately during the talk we had audio issues due to the large number of viewers and had to turn off the camera. The picture that remains for the rest of the slides is a freeze frame of me frowning over not turning the camera sooner.

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Surprises And Changes

We have constant Google alerts setup fro various Codename One related keywords and the other day we got a lovely surprise in the form of this great presentation from Mateja Opacic who to my knowledge never contacted us or discussed this with us. Apparently he made this presentation at the Coding Serbia Conference, which is really cool!
He has a great presentation & demo.

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