Shai Almog

This week’s release adds car dashboards, motion sensors, desktop-class input, foldables, Commerce, Secrets, versioned builds, and real video generation while keeping last week’s open-source deal intact.

This week adds a privacy-first analytics API, a pure-vector map engine with pluggable native providers, Apple TV and Android TV support with CSS @media for form factors, rich text and code editors, and device integrity and app review APIs. It is also a good moment to explain how we fund the project without doing the thing open source so often does to you.

This week adds a native Linux desktop port, an Apple Watch and Wear OS port, a visual Game Builder with a high-level gaming API, and seamless crash protection that symbolicates native crashes and files them as GitHub issues. We also rebuilt the build cloud from the ground up.

A maintainer recently hid a destructive prompt-injection payload aimed at AI agents inside his own framework. That is a betrayal of the trust open source runs on. Here is where we stand, and why I think AI is the biggest opportunity small OSS players have ever had.

This week brings native Windows executables with no JVM, a portable 3D graphics API, a gaming API with Box2D physics, cross-platform printing, and Apple Wallet support, in what is probably our biggest update ever.

An OpenAPI 3.x client generator that turns a spec into typed Codename One code, a JPA-shaped SQLite ORM, JAXB-shaped JSON / XML mappers, build-time SVG and Lottie transcoders, plus a declarative router and deep-link API. All ride on the same build-time codegen pipeline.

The open issue count dropped below 350 after a push through the oldest reports, and the same week brought native Mac builds, WebSockets in the core, gRPC and GraphQL integration, a new advertising API, and richer background work.

Deeper AI integration in the framework core, modern authentication via OAuth / OIDC and WebAuthn passkeys driven from the system browser, and a few smaller additions (WiFi / connectivity, share-sheet result callbacks) alongside.

A walk-through of the new JDWP-based on-device debugging pipeline for ParparVM iOS apps and Android apps, with a step-by-step IntelliJ tutorial for each. Plus a short tutorial on the new standard JUnit 5 integration against the JavaSE simulator, with annotations for the visual configuration.