Yearly Archives: 2016


Gluon has two new rock stars

Back in October 2015, Gluon was so immensely proud to announce that their solutions for Java on mobile and Java in the cloud (not to mention the numerous contributions to open source) had been awarded a prestigious Dukes Choice award. Since then the whole company has been busily working on […]


Simplifying Gluon

When we first started brainstorming what Gluon would be back in late 2014, we always had the names of products in our heads. Gluon Charm was the name from the very beginning, and while other names were changed, some of them remained the same, almost unquestioned. By now Gluon has […]


Scene Builder 8.1.1 hot fix out now

On January 19 we released Scene Builder 8.1.0, and we saw a big uptake, as expected. Since then, we’ve heard from some users that they’re running into issues thanks to some of the changes in that release. Today we’re announcing the immediate availability of Gluon Scene Builder 8.1.1 that fixes […]


Gluon Mobile 2.0 Now Available

When we released Gluon Mobile 1.0 we knew we were just at the beginning of a long journey. Today we announce the next step of that journey – Gluon Mobile 2.0 is now available for immediate use by our current customers and new customers alike. We never planned for the […]


The Never-Ending Popularity of Scene Builder

Gluon has been the unofficial shepherd of Scene Builder for most of 2015, and while some in the community think Scene Builder is a lost cause (and are spreading a lot of FUD about it and JavaFX), we feel that with our closer relationship to the JavaFX community and OpenJFX […]


Gluon Release Schedule is Now Public

At Gluon we believe in open source, and a big part of open source is transparency. While not all of Gluon is open source, we try our best to apply the same principles regardless, and today we’re taking a step to increase our transparency further. One thing we’re hearing from […]


Seeking a Gluon Developer Advocate

Gluon is growing (again). Our team of engineers are busily working on customer projects, our open source projects, our IDE plugins, as well as Gluon Mobile, Gluon Cloud, and Gluon Desktop. At our core is a strong conviction that Java can be an excellent language and platform for writing cross-device […]


Android moving to OpenJDK

The recent ‘news’ about Android moving from Harmony to OpenJDK caused some confusion and lots of speculation in the developer world. In this post, we try to clarify the facts without going into any speculation.     1. Terminology First of all, some terminology needs to be clear. There are a […]