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Best Mobile Article of September 2014

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Current Entries

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15 Sep 2014Daniel Vaughan
Create best-in-breed cross-platform MVVM apps using Calcium for Xamarin.Forms.
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17 Sep 2014Daniel Vaughan
Create a Xamarin Forms tabbed page or carousel page by binding to a collection of ViewModels; extending beyond the current capabilities of Xamarin Forms.
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24 Sep 2014pogib
Simple and PCF shadow mapping algorithms (Bonus Article - Android Wild Card Category)
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15 Sep 2014Saleh Hamadeh
In the last three decades, software development has undergone a drastic change. Computer science started out as a mix of discrete mathematics and electrical engineering. As more people bought personal computers, most businesses sold their software for fixed prices.
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2 Sep 2014Pavel Sinkevich
Implement TinyWebDb interface on WCF Service to communicate with Android application developed with App Inventor
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15 Sep 2014Cindy Potvin
How to build maintainable Android applications
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18 Sep 2014Android on Intel
Recent industry reports have indicated that over 70% of tablets and smartphones worldwide use the Android OS. However, due to Android’s open platform, the OS does not provide sufficient protection from malicious apps or Trojans.
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18 Sep 2014Android on Intel
In a recently posted stable release of Intel Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB), we have added experimental support for Android applications; i.e., building Intel TBB libraries for use in Android applications via the JNI interface.
2 Sep 2014LEADTOOLS Support
LEADTOOLS includes comprehensive support for DICOM in each of its programming interfaces including .NET (used in the examples below), CDLL, C++ Class Library, HTML5 / JavaScript, WinRT, iOS, Android and more.
16 Sep 2014Android on Intel
Mobile applications can behave differently between emulator and device and, as an app grows more and more complex, debugging performance bottlenecks can become extremely difficult. The GPA System Analyzer, part of the Intel® INDE, is a tool that can help diagnose a variety of performance issues.
16 Sep 2014Android on Intel
This paper will help you choose the right engine for your game so it runs its best for all your Android customers.
16 Sep 2014Android on Intel
The purpose of this paper is to provide a high level overview of the one-time password (OTP) functionalities and show how to use the OTP APIs in Android*.
16 Sep 2014Android on Intel
This paper will discuss optimization needs and approaches on Android and walk through a case study of how to optimize a multimedia and augmented reality application.
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26 Sep 2014IInjac
Azure Mobile Services Managed Backend–fortumo Mobile Payment Integration
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14 Sep 2014Peter Leow
Exploring the connectivity options in Android.
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19 Sep 2014FaizanMubasher
This article include steps to create simple needle in android using View and Graphics. A needle like placed in Speedometers.
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8 Sep 2014Pragmateek
"MCSD Certification Toolkit (Exam 70-483): Programming in C#” - book review
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22 Sep 2014Debdatta Basu
Tip calculator using RoboMVVM- An MVVM framework for Android.
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9 Sep 2014Dominic Burford
Cross-platform mobile development vs native development
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9 Apr 2016NightWizzard
Handling for hex expressions and the trailing '}'
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14 Sep 2014User 1234567
Logic to create Pie chart with rotated labels
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26 Sep 2014Krishna Rungta
Jumpstart your App Development with these tips
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17 Sep 2014Grasshopper.iics
Content Provider in Android Was Never this easier.
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13 Sep 2014Grasshopper.iics
Learn easy data management, SqlLite database, XML Web services, File Database in Android with a Real time App
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3 Nov 2014Evgeny Gorbin
Simple social network integration tutorial for android using modular library
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9 Sep 2014Ahmed Alaa El-Din
This articles provides a brief description of different methods that Android platform can provide for a developer to save different data types with different storage methods like Shared Preferences, Internal Storage, External Storage, SQLite DB, and Web Services
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27 Sep 2014Muhammad Muddasar Yamin
This tip is about making images animation for Windows Phone 8/8.1 using Storyboard class in C#.
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14 Sep 2014Varavut
Lean about how to manage the data
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31 Aug 2014Saad_Mahmood
Unleashing Grids in Expression Blend and it's Major Role in Responsive Design
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18 Sep 2014Android on Intel
To solve the FAT APK size problem, the author has developed a native library compression SDK.
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17 Sep 2014hjgode
Description of my btPrint demo app to print demo files to portable bluetooth label/receipt printers
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14 Sep 2014BC3Tech
Let’s have a look at some tweaks to the default phone project created for Windows Phone 8.0 (and 8.1 Silverlight)
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15 Sep 2014Saleh Hamadeh
This post discusses how to verify phone numbers using Twilio and Parse
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18 Sep 2014Android on Intel
This article is a beginner’s introduction to creating native (NDK based) Android* applications for Intel® architecture (IA) based devices.
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18 Sep 2014Android on Intel
This paper provides an overview of random number APIs and also shows how to use different APIs to generate random numbers on the Android* OS.

Current Participants

Those with articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

Software Developer eSpace Software Company
Egypt Egypt
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
United States United States
Intel is inside more and more Android devices, and we have tools and resources to make your app development faster and easier.

Software Developer (Senior)
United States United States
I'm a Sr. Software Engineer in the Seattle area primarily focused on serverless technologies in the cloud. In my free time I enjoy hiking & other adventures with my family around the Puget Sound and the country! You can find out more about me at my homepage: http://bc3.tech/brandonh
Canada Canada
Cindy Potvin is a software developer based in the Montreal area. At her day job, she creates web applications using the ASP.NET MVC framework and mobile applications using the Android SDK.
Engineer
Switzerland Switzerland
Daniel is a former senior engineer in Technology and Research at the Office of the CTO at Microsoft, working on next generation systems.

Previously Daniel was a nine-time Microsoft MVP and co-founder of Outcoder, a Swiss software and consulting company.

Daniel is the author of Windows Phone 8 Unleashed and Windows Phone 7.5 Unleashed, both published by SAMS.

Daniel is the developer behind several acclaimed mobile apps including Surfy Browser for Android and Windows Phone. Daniel is the creator of a number of popular open-source projects, most notably Codon.

Would you like Daniel to bring value to your organisation? Please contact

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Student Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
India India
Debdatta Basu is a student at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, currently pursuing his Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering. He has four years of experience with C++, C#, Computer Graphics, and Parallel Programming.
Technical Lead Gold-Vision CRM
United Kingdom United Kingdom
I am a professional software engineer and technical architect with over twenty years commercial development experience with a strong focus on the design and development of web and mobile applications.

I have experience of architecting scalable, distributed, high volume web applications that are accessible from multiple devices due to their responsive web design, including architecting enterprise service-oriented solutions. I have also developed enterprise mobile applications using Xamarin and Telerik Platform.

I have extensive experience using .NET, ASP.NET, Windows and Web Services, WCF, SQL Server, LINQ and other Microsoft technologies. I am also familiar with HTML, Bootstrap, Javascript (inc. JQuery and Node.js), CSS, XML, JSON, Apache Cordova, KendoUI and many other web and mobile related technologies.

I am enthusiastic about Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Application Life-cycle Management having configured such environments using CruiseControl.NET, TeamCity and Team Foundation Services. I enjoy working in Agile and Test Driven Development (TDD) environments.

Outside of work I have two beautiful daughters. I am also an avid cyclist who enjoys reading, listening to music and travelling.
Russian Federation Russian Federation
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior) Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Resear
Pakistan Pakistan
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
CEO Integrated Ideas
India India
gasshopper.iics is a group of like minded programmers and learners in codeproject. The basic objective is to keep in touch and be notified while a member contributes an article, to check out with technology and share what we know. We are the "students" of codeproject.

This group is managed by Rupam Das, an active author here. Other Notable members include Ranjan who extends his helping hands to invaluable number of authors in their articles and writes some great articles himself.

Rupam Das is mentor of Grasshopper Network,founder and CEO of Integrated Ideas Consultancy Services, a research consultancy firm in India. He has been part of projects in several technologies including Matlab, C#, Android, OpenCV, Drupal, Omnet++, legacy C, vb, gcc, NS-2, Arduino, Raspberry-PI. Off late he has made peace with the fact that he loves C# more than anything else but is still struck in legacy style of coding.
Rupam loves algorithm and prefers Image processing, Artificial Intelligence and Bio-medical Engineering over other technologies.

He is frustrated with his poor writing and "grammer" skills but happy that coding polishes these frustrations.
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115 members
Germany Germany
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer ExGrip LCC
Germany Germany
Working as professional freelancer for the last 5 years. Specialized on and addicted to .NET and a huge fan of Windows Azure from the beginning. Socializing people of all areas, from CEO's to co-workers. Consider myself as a social architect.

Now the proud owner of ExGrip LLC - building mobile cloud experiences. Our latest product "Tap-O-Mizer" is shortly in Beta2. It enables you to see what really needs to be changed in your Windows Phone 8 or Windows 8 app (in real-time, if needed), to ensure customer satisfaction.

Started authorship for "Pluralsight - Hardcore Developer Training" and going to publish the first course on Windows Azure soon.

A few years ago I made a major shift from developer to "devsigner".Focusing my creativity also on great user experiences on Windows, Windows 8 and Windows Phone. Utilizing Expression Design, Expression Blend, Photoshop and Illustrator.

I started developing my first programs on a Commodore C64 (basic and assembly) at the age of fourteen years. Later on an Amiga 500 (C++). After that I made the shift to DOS and Windows from version 3.11 and up.

To me the most important part of developing new experiences is to work with creative and outstanding people and to bring new, exciting ideas to life.

I strongly believe that everyone can be a hero if he/she get's pushed and motivated and valued. Therefore, and that under any circumstances: "People first!"

Specialties:Extremely motivated and pushing people to create results.
India India
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Help desk / Support LEAD Technologies, Inc.
United States United States
Since 1990, LEAD has established itself as the world's leading provider of software development toolkits for document, medical, multimedia, raster and vector imaging. LEAD's flagship product, LEADTOOLS, holds the top position in every major country throughout the world and boasts a healthy, diverse customer base and strong list of corporate partners including some of the largest and most influential organizations from around the globe. For more information, contact sales@leadtools.com or support@leadtools.com.
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Software Developer
Pakistan Pakistan
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior)
Germany Germany
30+ years experience as developer with VB.NET, VB, VBA, VBScript, C#, WPF, WinForms, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, Delphi, ADO, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Silverlight, HTML, CSS, XAML, XML, T-SQL, MySQL, MariaDb, MS-ACCESS, dBase, OLE/COM, ActiveX, SEPA/DTAUS, ZUGFeRD, DATEV Format and DATEVconnect, DSGVO, TNT Web-API, MS-Office Addins, etc., including:
- 10+ years experience as developer and freelancer
- 10+ years experience as team leader
- 13+ years experience with CRM solutions
Belarus Belarus
T-SQL developer, SSIS developer, C# developer. Have experience in .Net development, minor experience in web development (ASP.NET, Sharepoint).
Microsoft certification in MS SQL Server 2008 development.
Most recent experience with MS SQL Server 2012, SSIS 2012.
Instructor / Trainer
Singapore Singapore
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

子曰:"三人行,必有我师焉;择其善者而从之,其不善者而改之."
Hungary Hungary
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Instructor / Trainer Pragmateek
France (Metropolitan) France (Metropolitan)
To make it short I'm an IT trainer specialized in the .Net ecosystem (framework, C#, WPF, Excel addins...).
(I'm available in France and bordering countries, and I only teach in french.)

I like to learn new things, particularly to understand what happens under the hood, and I do my best to share my humble knowledge with others by direct teaching, by posting articles on my blog (pragmateek.com), or by answering questions on forums.
User Interface Analyst Procesium
Pakistan Pakistan
Expressions Blend Guy from Pakistan. Trying to make .NET developer's life easier by use of BLEND during their development.
Software Developer
United States United States
First of all, I cannot describe how much I adore math, computer science, and physics. I started coding when I was thirteen. I learned C at that age, and then I moved to learning C++, Java, Python, and, of course, HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP. When I was young, my major motivation for learning programming was to create games. I developed around a dozen games for my PC and Wii when I was in high school. At 17, I bricked my Wii by trying to access the system files, but never mind that now.

In last couple of years, I spent most of my time learning the newest technologies. I learned Android programming two years ago, and as of now, I published two apps on Google Play. Then, I completed two Udacity courses and UC Berkley's Artificial Intelligence course on EdX.

My current interests are:
* Managing complexity of large-scale applications.
* Marketing automation and customer engagement using artificial intelligence.

When I am not coding, I will probably be walking around downtown Kennesaw, reading, blogging, or hanging out at Starbucks.
India India
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer vable
Thailand Thailand
Windows Platform, Android, Server-Side and Web Application Developer. I am a Programming Lover. I love to make an application and design it structures.
 
 
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  1. The contest period covers the the first day of the month 12AM US Eastern Standard Time and ends the final day of the month at 11:59:59 PM US Eastern Standard Time. All entries must be submitted during this period in order to qualify.
  2. Entries must be an article, or blog entry.
  3. With the exception of the Everything Else category, the article must be tagged with at least one of the tags corresponding to that competition's category (for example, to enter the C# Competition you would need to tag your article with a C# tag).
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  6. Articles may only be considered for a single category. If an article is eligible for multiple categories (for example, it pertains to both the C# and Web Dev categories), CodeProject editors and judges will decide which category the article shall be entered in.
  7. No author can be nominated twice in the same category.
  8. If an author writes has two separate articles, each article may be considered in their respective categories provided none of the aforementioned rules are broken. For example, if an author wrote two separate articles, one related to C# and one related to VB.NET, the author and articles could be nominated in the C# and VB.NET competitions, respectively.
  9. In the event an author wins multiple competitions, and repeat, identical prizes, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
  10. In the event an article has multiple authors and/or contributors, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
  11. In the event of a tie,  the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
  12. Multiple votes from the same IP will be automatically disqualified.
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