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Add Metal and Skins blog post for May 8#4890

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  • Adds the May 8 blog post covering the Metal iOS backend, the browser-hosted Skin Designer that retires the skin downloader, the iOS Reminders-style iosReturnExitsEditing flag, status-bar tap diagnostics, the simulator dark/light toggle, weekend backend maintenance, the Android 16 orientation behaviour change, and the 7.0.242 version jump.
  • Opens with a candid section on how we approach quality (CI stats table, two specific incidents from the past two weeks, beta-channel guidance, and a heads-up on next-gen crash protection).
  • Drops in four iOS Metal screenshot captures (ShowcaseTheme light / dark, SpanLabelTheme, DialogTheme) and the hero image.

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Covers the Metal iOS rendering backend, the browser-hosted Skin
Designer that retires the skin downloader, an iOS Reminders-style
Return-as-Done flag, status-bar tap diagnostics, the simulator
dark/light toggle, weekend backend maintenance, the Android 16
orientation behaviour change, the version jump to 7.0.242, and a
candid look at how we balance quality with the speed of iteration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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shai-almog and others added 4 commits May 8, 2026 11:43
Embeds the six developer-guide screenshots (device picker, source
picker, Shape / Cutouts / Info editor tabs, finish and download) by
linking to the codenameone.com hosted copies so the post matches the
narrative walk-through.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
themselves Codename One apps

Adds an "Eating our own dog food" sub-section to the Skin Designer
chapter pointing out that the three browser-hosted tools are written
in Codename One and deployed via the JavaScript port, as a
demonstration of what the framework can do.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Recent blog posts include a feed_html key consumed by the Hugo RSS
template (layouts/_default/list.feed.xml) to produce a richer feed
description with the hero image and inline code formatting. Adding
the missing entry so RSS subscribers see the proper item body.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Same RSS-template requirement as the metal-and-skins post: without
feed_html the Hugo feed template falls back to plain text with no
hero image. Adding the missing entry retroactively so the May 1 post
shows up correctly in RSS.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@shai-almog shai-almog merged commit 7970787 into master May 8, 2026
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