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7/24/2026

Own Your Pixels: Native Fidelity on Your Schedule
Short summary
Codename One, an open-source cross-platform framework, detailed its native fidelity work: statically linking lightweight UI components so OS updates cannot alter shipped screens. The team achieved Metal-pipeline rendering on iOS and ParparVM performance parity with Java 25. A major fidelity pass updated iOS Modern and Android Material 3 themes, including accessibility hierarchies and 53,000+ lines of changes across 1,147 files.
- •Codename One statically links UI components so OS updates cannot change shipped screens
- •ParparVM reached geomean parity with Java 25 across ten benchmarks
- •Major fidelity pass updated iOS Modern and Material 3 themes with 53K+ additions
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