Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Codename One, Cross Platform “Native” Development


“Java is dead”


“dotNET killed Java”



are phrases I hear a lot these days. But is it true? Is Java really dead?


When compared to other languages like JavaScript, Python or Ruby, Java has a much steeper learning curve.


One does not simply kill the language of choice of 9 million devs. One does not simply kill the base language of Android. And finally, one does not simply kill The cross-mobile platform language.


Java on every mobile… wait, what?


Codename One is a way of creating native mobile applications for Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Windows Phone, using the same Java source code. Android native apps use Java, but iOS, BlackBerry and Windows Phone do not. The truth is, Codename One makes translations of your Java code into the native code for each of these platforms, sometimes resulting in faster apps than the native versions.


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