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In Part 1<\/a>, we introduced a mobile app game, TiltMaze, written completely in JavaFX, which you can download from either the Apple App Store<\/a> or Google Play<\/a> and install it on your mobile device or tablet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this article, we'll discuss the technologies we use with JavaFX to build the JVM byte code version as well as native images that target iOS and Android devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GluonFX plugin for Maven<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Gluon (https:\/\/docs.gluonhq.com\/<\/a>) has a Maven plugin that lets you build native-image JavaFX applications targeting multiple platforms. While Java has always been about compiling Java byte code that runs in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) anywhere and everywhere (Write Once, Run Anywhere), there are prohibitions with running byte code in the mobile environment. Besides the performance penalties of executing byte code in a virtual machine and the relatively long startup time, Apple prohibits JVM applications on mobile targets and Android Java is non-standard. If you choose to leave the JavaFX world for native toolkits, you need to acquire expertise in Objective C\/Swift as well as the respective native UI toolkits to target these platforms. Spoiler alert: I didn’t do that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Enter Gluon, JavaFX, and GraalVM. The GluonFX plugin leverages GraalVM, OpenJDK and OpenJFX (JavaFX) by compiling the Java client application and all its required dependencies into native code. The target platform directly executes the native application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While putting together this series, Gluon has been busy updating their Gluon \"Client\" maven plugin. As of this week, the plugin is now known as the \"GluonFX\" plugin at the 1.0.0 version. We have updated this post, but, as always, refer to the docs at https:\/\/docs.gluonhq.com\/#_gluonfx_plugin_for_maven<\/a>. This is a major milestone for building native applications from Java and #JavaFX<\/a> client apps for desktop, mobile and embedded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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The Gluon \"Client\" maven plugin is now known as the \"GluonFX\" plugin and we are at the 1.0.0 version.
Docs at https:\/\/t.co\/O1E01TiQkY<\/a>
A major milestone for building native applications from Java and #JavaFX<\/a> client apps for desktop, mobile and embedded.<\/p>— GluonHQ (@GluonHQ) June 14, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>