blog/liquid-glass-material-3-modern-native-themes/

[giscus[bot]]

blog/liquid-glass-material-3-modern-native-themes/

New iOS Modern (liquid glass) and Android Material 3 native themes, how they work in the Playground, in the simulator, and on devices, plus a week of performance and look-and-feel improvements including sticky headers.

https://www.codenameone.com/blog/liquid-glass-material-3-modern-native-themes/

[ThomasH99]

Whauv!! After a post like this, and on top of the last several posts, as a long-time CN1 developer I feel a strong urge to run out on the town square to celebrate :-) Anyway, keep up the amazing work being done!

[ThomasH99]

After trying several of the new features, I'll add to my comment below that while I throughly enjoy seeing new features being implemented at 'Claude' speed, I also recognize the typical 'Claude' quality, where the code kind of works but often not quite well enough for release. Most of the features clearly require a bit more thorough testing and a human to check that it actually works as expected.

The issue I have with the current approach is that it is quite a slow loop (and a little bit frustrating) to iterate on this code by testing it and writing bug reports which are then fixed in the following release. While I get that it may be quite smart from a CN1 perspective to iterate in this way (you're kind of mainly facilitating the interface between Claude and the CN1 developers), I think it would be much, much faster to arrive to something at the same solid level as past CN1 features by having a CN1 senior developer a bit more in the loop and only release something when it has been well tested and actually implements the expected functionality.

Anyway, I think we're all learning to work with AI these days with all the pros and cons. As a side-comment, it would be really interesting to hear from the CN1 team how AI can be optimized for CN1. My own experience has been that it takes quite a bit of firm love and insistence to arrive at code that is fully compatible with CN1 and not just Java.

[shai-almog]

This has always been the way we always released features and I'd argue the quality improved significantly. Back in the day we didn't have any testing framework so quality control was strictly done by the community. E.g. in the theme change: #4793

This PR includes 184 files. Yes, I personally reviewed them all. No, not every line or pixel. That is just not possible. As you can see it took over 93 iterations to get it right to a level where we can all play with it. This PR added many new tests for themes which is something we never had.

We still have regressions and half baked features, but that's always a thing when you change a stable codebase and as you said, there are a lot of changes.