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 wrist. While that is great, Wear is actually a full fledged Android device (alas with a small screen). We took our Tabris swipe demo and with a few UI changes we made it a...
Read MoreToday we are proud to unleash Tabris 1.3. Aside from many improvements under the hood and user experience enhancements for Android and iOS, some major features made it into this Tabris release. With this post we want to show you the highlights. Responsive Design with Passe-Partout Responsive Design is finally coming to the SWT world. And with SWT I mean: SWT (Desktop), RAP (Browser) and Tabris (Mobile). With this...
Read MoreWriting JUnit Tests for an application is always a good thing. Writing tests for a Tabris or RAP application for the first time seems more challenging: You might encounter an "java.lang.IllegalStateException: No context available outside of the request processing." exception while running the tests. So, after a quick google you will find a blog post from my dear fellow Johannes that explains that you need to...
Read MoreThe 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 dealing with pages in the Tabris UI. TabFolder gets smoother The TabFolder always had a nice look to it but with the recent changes it also became more pleasant to use. Inspired by the tabs in the...
Read More[caption width="140" align="alignright"] Raspberry Pi is a trademark of the Raspberry Pi Foundation[/caption]As of recently, Oracle is providing a JVM for Raspberry Pi that performs well enough to use the Pi as an application server. Raspberry Pi and Java haven't been a great couple in the past, but with the new JVM that added native floating point operations this is history. If you are interested, here...
Read MoreWe love doing mobile apps and we love excellent UIs. That's the reason why, 1.5 years ago we created Tabris. Today we are proud to unleash Tabris 1.2. It's the best and biggest release so far and in this post we want to show you the highlights. Free for...
Read MoreBehold! ;-) After moving ClientScripting from Incubator to RAP proper in M1 and revising ToolTips in M2, we finally introduce an all new key feature in 2.2M3 called Row Templates. Row Templates will allow you to change the way a Table or Tree widget presents Items on screen, completely replacing the default column layout. A template consist of text and image cells that can be freely...
Read MoreTabris 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 a user request: the ability to change the overlay color of a modal shell. The overlay color is the area behind a shell when it is displayed...
Read MoreToday we are proud to release Tabris 1.1. Since the 1.0 release we have focused on making Tabris even more robust and made improvements such as a whole new TabFolder implementation for the Android client and a new Tree implementation for the iOS client. Of course, besides robustness and bug fixes we have added many new features. In this post I'd like to show you the new...
Read MoreWith all of the current mobile and desktop operating systems we use all day, most users expect a great deal from an application user interface. People take things like animated transitions, gesture-based navigation, transparent controls and high resolution graphics, for granted. Yes, SWT recently added Touch- and Gesture Listeners. And yes, you can set alpha on a shell. And yes, you can use a FormLayout to have overlapping UI elements. But...
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