JavaFX 23 Released: What You Need to Know We’re excited to announce the release of JavaFX 23, the latest major update to the popular framework for building rich desktop applications. This new version brings a host of improvements and enhancements, offering developers even more power and flexibility for creating cross-platform […]
Elevating Your JavaFX Applications with Essential Features Over the past years, we created a number of standalone JavaFX-based software components, each with their own lifecycle, build structure, target platform and license. Recently, we worked hard to provide a better overall and consistent developer experience. We are thrilled to unveil GluonFX, […]
Gluon is well-known as a company run by and for developers. Throughout our history of supporting JavaFX, we have been committed to ensuring that developers have access to the latest builds at no cost. We have been consistently creating and releasing early-access and general-availability versions of JavaFX, starting from version […]
One of the frequently asked features for JavaFX is the availability of a rich text editor. JavaFX comes with a great and simple built-in TextArea control, which contains the greatest common divisor of what developers want. The JavaFX core modules are simple and generic on purpose, and they allow third […]
When using the GluonFX plugins (for Maven and Gradle) in a JavaFX application, developers are leveraging Gluon Substrate which provides the way to create native images for Java and JavaFX projects that can target all platforms (desktop, mobile and embedded). If you are new to this, please have a look […]
Gluon is proud to announce the release of Gluon Mobile 6.1.0, as well as updated versions of our Gluon IDE plugins for IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, and Eclipse. The primary focus of this release has been to simplify the integration of Gluon Mobile into existing JavaFX applications. Overview Gluon Mobile is […]
One of the great things about JavaFX is that user interfaces created with the JavaFX APIs can be rendered on different platforms, with different architectures and operating systems. JavaFX applications can be executed on desktop systems (with MacOS, Windows, Linux) but also on mobile and embedded devices (e.g. iOS, Android, […]
Scene Builder is a very popular drag & drop user interface designer tool for JavaFX. It allows for rapid iteration and separation of design and logic for team members to quickly and easily focus on their specific layer of application development. With over 2 million downloads since Gluon started distributing […]
Almost 3 years ago, Gluon announced the JavaFX 11 release. Today, we are excited to release JavaFX 17. When we released JavaFX 11, we explained the path forward. That path includes a new feature release every 6 months, and 4 CPU releases per year. This predictability is very much appreciated […]
Gluon has been making improvements to its Maps library as we gear up for the 2.0.0 release. Some of the features and bug fixes for this release are listed below: Features JDK 11 support A new API has been added to allow setting a placeholder image for tiles ThreadFactory and […]
