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Scan barcodes faster with the new Tabris.js barcode scanner plugin
Scanning barcodes is a very common task on mobile phones. If you want to read data from the physical world, there is a good chance that a barcode will provide this data. With the newly created …
Tabris.js 2.4 released with printing support and pinch-to-zoom on images
[UPDATE2] The 2.4.1 release has been updated with a 2.4.2 revision to remedy a build issue discovered on iOS. [UPDATE1] The 2.4.0 release has been updated with a 2.4.1 revision to address several …
Tabris.js 2.3 released
With Christmas around the corner, it is time for presents! The Tabris.js team joins the festivities with the new Tabris.js 2.3.0 release. This latest incarnation brings support for the iPhoneX, …
Tabris.js 2.0 – Top 10 Features: AlertDialog
With the Tabris.js 2 release only a few days away we continue our rundown of the Tabris.js 2 Top 10 features. Today we focus on the highly requested modal dialog. A modal dialog is used to show …
Tabris.js 2.0 - Top 10 Features: StatusBar and NavigationBar
The Tabris.j2 2.0 release is approaching with many great features in tow. While we put the final touches on the release we are continuing our top Tabris.js top 10 feature blog post series. Today we …
Tabris.js 2.0 - Top 10 Features: NavigationView
Tabris.js 2.0 is less than a month away, and to help celebrate we are highlighting 10 of the most important features in this upcoming release. The top 10 rundown is in no particular order but we are …
Tabris.js 2.0 RC2 is here
We are approaching the final release of Tabris.js 2.0 and today we are happy to announce Tabris.js 2.0 RC2. While we put the final touches on the Tabris.js features and apis, there have been several …
Tabris Maps 2.0 released
With the recent advancements in maps features on Android and iOS we also took the time to overhaul the tabris-plugin-maps plugin. The new version 2.0.0 provides completely new APIs that are more in …
Creating a Floating Action Button in Tabris.js
Ever since its introduction at Google IO 2014, material design guidelines have gained more and more traction in the web and mobile landscape. Android has adopted the design style and more and more …
Styling a Tabris.js TabFolder for Android Material Design
UPDATE: The post has been updated to use the new tabris.TabFolder api Creating a good mobile app goes hand in hand with creating a well designed mobile app. With Tabris.js you are able to cater the …
Creating Great Apps with a Consistent Icon Theme
Creating great mobile apps usually involves making use of icons. May it be as touch target, indicator or just as decorations, icons make an app come to life and provide personality. Therefore it is …
Pixel perfect layout in Tabris.js
Positioning widgets in a layout is a very common task in Tabris.js apps. When dealing with varying device densities, Tabris.js lets you declare all dimensions in device independent pixels. This …
Tabris.js 1.1: Custom themes on Android
UPDATE 1: With Tabris.js 1.1 released to production, we have removed the “sneak peak” indication from this article. UPDATE 2: Starting with Tabris.js 2.0.0-beta1 the base theme to inherit from has …
Customizing the Appearance of a Tabris.js Android app
Building a Tabris.js client for Android or iOS has gotten pretty easy thanks to the Tabris.js build service. For the Android client you don’t even need to provide a signing certificate to get started: …
Tabris.js Examples - Animations
Creating an engaging mobile app is a challenging task. There are several best practice approaches to increase user delight and one of them is the use of animations. Animations can guide the user …
Tabris.js Examples - Parallax Scrolling
A modern mobile UI should be delightful to use with small details that make the app feel alive. One of such interaction models is parallax scrolling which moves UI planes independently from each …
Tabris.js Examples - Images
At some point every mobile app uses images. Maybe to indicate a button or to show you some cute kitten pictures. Tabris.js supports images in a variety of ways, be it as background images, page icons …
Tabris 1.4 Preview: Spinning ProgressBar on Android
The days until the upcoming Tabris 1.4 release are numbered and we have another nice addition to share with you. A ProgressBar can be configured to be indeterminate, which puts it in a never-ending …
Tabris 1.4 Preview: Client Dialogs
With the Tabris 1.4 release approaching fast, we’d like to preview another nice addition to Tabris: the client side dialog. Creating a dialog has never been a big problem in Tabris but until now it …
First impressions of Apple's Swift programming language
Apple Swift logo is a trademark of Apple Inc. Apple introduced the Swift programming language at its wwdc14 event yesterday. I spent some time digging through the language documentation. Here are my …
Tabris 1.4 Preview: Print Support
Many people can stick to consuming their content on digital screens, but there might be times when you want to have it on paper. Therefore, the upcoming Tabris 1.4 release will add native support for …
Tabris on Android Wear
Google just announced their push into the wearable computing market with the introduction of Android Wear. Currently the main focus of Wear is to deliver rich notifications from your phone to your …
User Experience Enhancements in Tabris 1.3 for Android
The upcoming Tabris 1.3 release will include visual improvements to the Tabris Android client. Most notable is an updated animation for the TabFolder appearance and an improved user experience when …
Dart as a programming language
Lately i have been experimenting with the dart language a lot. Dart claims to be “a new platform for scalable web app engineering” and while that is true, it is also an interesting programming …
Crossing boundaries with the new Android transitions
A few weeks ago I posted a blog post about how to create animations using the ViewOverlay introduced in Android 4.3. Fast forward to today and we have a new Android version: Android 4.4 (KitKat). This …
New in Tabris 1.2: Set your modal shell overlay color
Tabris 1.2 will be released on December 6th with a huge set of new features. You can check out the roadmap to get the big picture. In today’s post we’ll focus on a feature we introduced as a result of …
Crossing boundaries with the new Android ViewOverlay
Animations are an integral part of mobile applications. They make an app more enjoyable, emphasize actions and, in general enrich the user experience. While there are many ways to perform animations …
Eclipse Command Line Options
Eclipse offers a huge number of command line options to configure many aspects. Some of the more popular ones are: -clean If set to “true”, any cached data used by the OSGi framework and eclipse …
Efficiently dealing with SWT GridLayout and GridData
Creating UIs with SWT or RAP is a common task in many projects. While we have a comprehensive set of widgets at our disposal, we only have a handful of layouts to choose from. One of the more popular …
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You find the posts on our website interesting? You are hammering F5 to not miss a new blog post? Then don’t forget to follow us on the various social networks: Twitter Google+ Facebook (RSS Feed) In …
Post Google I/O: The State of Android Development [UPDATED]
A few weeks ago i posted an analysis of the current state of the gradle based Android build system. Today we are living in a post Google I/O 2013 world and several things have changed. Time for an …
State of the Android Gradle Build System
Building an Android project can be challenging at times. The Android SDK ships with a set of helpful ant scripts, but has its shortcomings. It mainly lacks a well-populated dependency infrastructure …
Tabris 1.0 is coming!
Here is a quick reminder for all Tabris enthusiasts. The 1.0 release is on track and will be available real soon. Run your server side application on mobile devices and benefit from the native …
Launch of Eclipse 4.2.2
The second service release for Eclipse 4.2 has been launched. Grab the latest download from eclipse.org or update your Eclipse IDE via “Help -> Check for Updates”. The new release brings the expected …
Evolving Android design
With the release of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) the new Android design language “holo” has been introduced. The following list highlights a few resources that either showcase great holo styled …
Integrating Gson into a JAX-RS based application
Creating modern applications often involves consuming REST based web services. One of the more popular ways to publish a REST service in Java is the JAX-RS (Jersey) specification. It allows you to …
Mythbuster: Android annotation performance unravelled
Over the last few weeks I have been involved in a lot of discussions whether it is justified to use Android frameworks that rely on a lot of annotation processing. There have been several bug reports …
Advanced Android testing with RoboGuice and Robolectric
I’ve been using the Android framework RoboGuice 2.0 a lot lately. RoboGuice is an extension for the Google Guice dependency injection framework that adds several Android specific mechanisms to easily …
Design for your platform
Application design and user experience has become one of the most important topics in the mobile/tablet/startup world. While some people claim the designer is the rockstar of the team i would still …
Loading, caching and displaying images in Android (Part 1)
Displaying an image in a mobile application is one of the most common tasks for app developers. Nearly every application displays some kind of graphics. Surprisingly, it can be quite challenging to …
How to apply a custom theme to an Android application
Since the release of Android 4.0, we have seen an increase in applications that follow the new Android design guidelines. The guide describes the Android holo theme that provides a cohesive user …
Tabris 0.6.1 – New and Noteworthy
It’s time for a comprehensive update after the well received Tabris 0.6 release. This time we not only provide the usual set of bugfixes and performance improvements after a .0 release, we’ve also …
Tabris demo app launched in the Google Play Store
Hot on the heels of the Tabris launch we have released a brand new Tabris demo app in the Google Play Store. The app allows you to explore all the demos we have created so far and of course you can …
Serious unit testing on Android
It is not a secret that we are big fans of Mockito at EclipseSource. Our Java mocking framework of choice has helped us in many projects to stay on the test driven development path. Luckily we are …
RAP mobile 0.5.8 - New and Noteworthy
We are happy to announce another preview release of RAP mobile. Version 0.5.8 adds support for even more widgets on the Android side while improving stability and performance on iOS and Android. The …
RAP mobile 0.5.7 - New and Noteworthy
Once again we are releasing a new version of RAP mobile. This latest release 0.5.7 brings with it a very cool new feature that we call the “Client Canvas”. This extension of the classic SWT Canvas …
Tabris 0.5.4 - New and Noteworthy
In this post we’d like to update you on the latest news in the Tabris (previously RAP mobile) developer preview. We’ve just released Version 0.5.4, marking the beginning of a simultaneous release …
RAP Mobile for Android 0.5.3 - New and Noteworthy
The latest Android client for RAP mobile (v0.5.3) is now available. We are always looking for feedback so we urge you to take part in our developer preview program to experience the client firsthand. …
Eclipse on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty)
Already running the latest and greatest Ubuntu with the new unity desktop? It also introduced a new menu bar and java apps seam to have probs with that. When your eclipse doesn’t want to make use of …
Agile Thoughts (Part I)
In the last few weeks i was confronted with several projects and developers, who were trying to incorporate the scrum process into their project environment. The following remarks will pinpoint some …
Tip: Validation with a MultiValidator
In the last blog entry regarding databinding, we learned how to create a custom observable for a DateTime widget. Starting with Eclipse 3.5 there is a new approach to creating custom observables as …
Databinding: A Custom Observable for a Widget
The introduction of the databinding framework in Eclipse 3.3 is with no doubt one of the most useful tools in the hands of the form developer. The ability to transform and validate user input in such …
Toggling a Command contribution
Every once in a while something just doesn’t happen to be as intiutive as you would have liked it to be. Lately I was trying to contribute a simple command based toggle button to the workbench. …
Performance Testing RAP on the Cloud
A recurring question in the RAP community is, “How good is the performance of my RAP application”? Now you can measure it for yourself on the Amazon cloud. In this tutorial I will show you how to set …