mobile-logo

Tabris Tag

26 Jun

Tabris 1.4 is here!

by Holger Staudacher
in EclipseSource News, Editors choice, Planet Eclipse
Comments

On March 10th we released Tabris 1.3 and it was a huge success. After 3 months of hard work we are ready to ship Tabris 1.4 today. The 1.4 release marks our biggest release so far. We have plenty of new features and several improvements. With this post we want to show you the highlights. UI Tracking One of the Killer-Features is a tracking API for the Tabris UI framework....

Read More
20 Jun

Tabris 1.4 Preview: Spinning ProgressBar on Android

by Moritz Post
in EclipseSource News
Comments

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 activity mode. On iOS, indeterminate progress is always shown with a spinning indicator. The Android client uses a bar-like visualization for that state but it is also very common to see a...

Read More
16 Jun

Tabris 1.4 Preview: Text Replacement

by Holger Staudacher
in EclipseSource News, Editors choice, Planet Eclipse
Comments

Only 10 days left till we release Tabris 1.4. This week we want to give you a preview of a feature highly requested by some of our customers: Text Replacement. Typing on mobile devices is not as efficient as on desktop computers because of the lack of hardware keyboards. You can increase the efficiency by defining shortcuts within your mobile OS that will be replaced while...

Read More
12 Jun

Tabris 1.4 Preview: Client Dialogs

by Moritz Post
in EclipseSource News, Editors choice
Comments

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 lacked the visual fidelity to what mobile users were used to on their respective platform. The discrepancy originates from the fact that a dialog is a normal shell with standard buttons,...

Read More
02 Jun

Tabris 1.4 Preview: Pull to Refresh

by Jordi Böhme López
in EclipseSource News, Editors choice, Planet Eclipse
Comments

We are working at full steam on the new features for Tabris 1.4 which we will release on June 26th. One of those features is Pull to Refresh. The mechanics of this feature are simple and have already become a standard for mobile users: Pull the user interface down to force the app to refresh its current view. In Tabris you can enable this for a Tree/Table with...

Read More
22 Apr

Tabris 1.4 Preview: Google Analytics

by Holger Staudacher
in EclipseSource News, Editors choice, Planet Eclipse
Comments

On June 26th we will release Tabris 1.4. Currently we are working on the new features for this release. One of the Killer-Features, a tracking API for the Tabris UI framework, was finished last week. The API comes with a ready-to-use Google Analytics integration. All you need to do is set your tracking ID and activate it. In your code this might look like this: [raw] ...

Read More
17 Apr

Tabris 1.4 Preview: Print Support

by Moritz Post
in EclipseSource News, Editors choice
Comments

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 printing right from your mobile device. A Tabris client makes use of its platform specific approach to printing, which means that printing feels as natural as expected. On iOS we use...

Read More
24 Mar

How to use SWT with Java 8

by Holger Staudacher
in EclipseSource News, Editors choice, Planet Eclipse
Comments

As you might have noticed, Java 8 was released last week ;). Most programers consider Java 8 the biggest change to the Java programming language ever made. This is mostly because of lambda expressions, default methods and streams. As an SWT/RAP/Tabris coder, the first thing that came to my mind was: "How can this make my SWT code better?". This blog will show you how to...

Read More