Happy New Year from the Tabris Team! We are having an exiting start into the new year with another release of Tabris, Tabris 0.10.0. The focus of the latest release is user experience. We added support for typical mobile interactions like swiping, back button navigation in trees, and improved visual touch feedback. Page Navigation with Gestures (Swiping) One of the most commonly used gesture on mobile devices is...
Read MoreJust in time for Christmas, I'm happy to announce our biggest release yet: Tabris 0.9.0. The new AppLauncher API will enable a tighter integration with iOS and Android and a seamless user experience with other Apps. Alternative Selection for List and Tree is now available. And many changes and additions happened under the hood - such as the RAP 2.0 migration as well as stability and...
Read MoreOne of the bigger changes in the RAP 2.0 API is the introduction of client services. These are features that interact with the client, but aren't directly related to the widget toolkit. Since there are now multiple types of clients that can be connected (mainly our default WebClient, Tabris for iOS and Tabris for Android), as well as different environments (browser, OS version, hardware), not...
Read MoreI presented our work on Tabris at "Eclipse Day @ Google" earlier this week. With Tabris you use Java to create native mobile applications for iOS and Android. My slides below provide a quick introduction: Follow this link for detailed information on Tabris. Thank you Eclipse Foundation and Google for organizing this event for the fourth year now!...
Read MoreRAP is approaching its second major release in its 6 year history, and major releases should be accompanied by major new functionality - at least this is our take on versioning. With RAP 2.0 we are changing the project name from Rich Ajax Platform to Remote Application Platform (RAP as a short name remains the same), so there is something really significant happening. RAP has always...
Read MoreSo you have build an iOS app using Tabris or another technology of your choice? Then you should know how to get your app to your users. In order to distribute an iOS app, the following things are needed: A Mac or access to an OS X machine like provided by MacinCloud An up-to-date version of Xcode The Xcode project of the app to be distributed ...
Read MoreA few days before the start of EclipseCon Europe 2012, we are releasing version 0.8.0 of Tabris. If you have the chance to visit EclipseCon Europe, just ask us for a demo or visit our Tabris talk and workshop right away. Added support for camera and image picking After the video support in Tabris 0.7.0 we now introduce support for local cameras on mobile devices. It enables...
Read MoreThis year Tabris will be at EclipseCon Europe. Tabris is the mobile cross platform solution that connects the benefits of RAP based web applications with the native power and intuitivity of touch based mobile devices. At EclipseCon Europe you will have the chance not only to get the big picture about the connection between the trends to mobile and touch devices and Eclipse/Java technologies,...
Read MoreTabris has made a big step forward in this 0.7 release. We included many improvements and fixes requested by our users. And we also got some nice new features...
Read MoreIn a next release of Tabris we will provide support for Camera. This will allow you to show a UI on the client to take a photo or select a picture on your device. The selected Image will then be scaled and sent to the server so you can use it in your App. While it might seem a simple task to get a UIImage object...
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