Best Mobile Article of January 2015

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Each month at CodeProject we gather together the best of the articles submitted the previous month and ask our readers to choose the best of the best. Entry is automatic - just submit you articke and we'll do the rest.

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Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

How to Establish a Different Picture of the Android Camera by Image Processing (Gray and Comic)?

19 Jan 2015Lai Taiyu

To establish a different picture of the Android camera by image processing (Gray and Comic)

HTML

Java

Android

Mobile

Android* Texture Compression - a comparison study with code sample

20 Jan 2015Android on Intel

Android* Texture Compression - a comparison study with code sample

How to programmatically warm boot a Windows CE device

13 Jan 2015B. Clay Shannon

Simple way to warm boot a Windows CE device

Bolo8 - Retro Gaming Revisited on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and XBLA

19 Jan 2015matthewproctor

Bolo8 - Retro Gaming revisited on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and XBLA

Windows Phone 7 – Application Lifecycle – Ocean for the Phone

8 Jan 2015User 271009

Windows Phone 7 – Application Lifecycle – Ocean for the Phone

How to develop Native Android* Apps with Intel® INDE 2015 Visual Studio* IDE Integration?

20 Jan 2015Android on Intel

This tutorial will guide you through writing a native “Hello World” Android* app in Visual Studio* through the IDE Integration feature of Intel® INDE 2015.

Efficient Order-Independent Transparency on Android* Using Fragment Shader Ordering

20 Jan 2015Android on Intel

This sample demonstrates the use of the extension GL_INTEL_fragment_shader_ordering, which is written against the OpenGL* 4.4 core profile and GLES 3.1 specifications.

Android

Mobile

OpenGL

An investigation of fast real-time GPU-based image blur algorithms

21 Jan 2015Android on Intel

In this blog post I'm going to start exploring the topic of blur filters.

Display a String List in an Android ListView

26 Jan 2015Cindy Potvin

How to display a string List in an Android ListView

Android

All-Topics

Localization in Windows Universal Apps

7 Jan 2015Pooja Baraskar

Making the App World-Ready by adapting it for a specific culture and language.

monoCPVanity: CP Vanity with Xamarin

9 Feb 2015Serge Desmedt

3 times CP Vantiy from a single codebase (hopefully)

ESJ: Extremely Simple JSON for C++

22 Sep 2015Jerry Evans

Adding cross-platform round-trip JSON serialization to C++ classes

Visual Studio 2015 and Apache Cordova

14 May 2015Hugo Carnicelli

In this article, we are going to learn what Apache Cordova is and in which way this tool is now integrated into Visual Studio 2015.

Push Notification For Windows, iOS & Android - Quick, Easy and Flexible

22 Jan 2015Sunasara Imdadhusen

FlexiPush (Push Notification) is a Quick, Easy and Flexible way to send a Push Notifications to the different platforms like Android, iOS and Windows instantly with your custom Payload as well

64-bit Android* and Android Run Time

20 Jan 2015Android on Intel

64-bit Android* and Android Run Time

Siminov Framework - Connect - Android RESTful Framework

28 Jan 2015Siminov Framework

Siminov Android Connect is a android based RESTful Framework, which allows your to consume RESTful Web services that seemlessly support your data, in a variety of representation media types and abtract away the low-level details of the client-server communication.

Java

Android

Mobile

RFJModel, an easy-to-use JSON loading library

8 Jan 2015refusebt

RFJModel is an easy-to-use JSON loading library. In comparing with other libraries, it's much easiler and less restricted to use.

Objective-C

iOS

JSON

GPU-Quicksort in OpenCL 2.0: Nested Parallelism and Work-Group Scan Functions

20 Jan 2015Android on Intel

This tutorial shows how to use two powerful features of OpenCL™ 2.0: enqueue_kernel functions that allow you to enqueue kernels from the device and work_group_scan_exclusive_add and work_group_scan_inclusive_add

A Help Infrastructure For WinRT Phones and Apps

1 Sep 2015David Maw

A way to embed help pages within a Windows RT or Phone program

Building a Windows Phone App

20 Jan 2015matthewproctor

How to build a Windows Phone app

Searching for shared motif between strings in C

30 Jan 2015Amir Mohammad Nasrollahi

In this article, i consider the problem of identifying motifs in the biological sequence data sets. To solve this task, i present a new algorithm for finding patterns that just use library in C compiler and a new way to avoid using arrays search.

Objective-C

string

Develop Mobile Applications Using Web Development Skills

27 Jan 2015Arian Celina

How to develop mobile applications using web development skills

.NET

Mobile

Windows

Trouble with Adapters

29 Jan 2015Codeman the Barbarian

Trouble with Adapters

Java

Android

Mobile

Introduction to Mvvmcross Platform

3 Jun 2015Pavel Durov

In this article I will give you a brief overview on the basic concepts of mvvmcross platform. We we'll explore the mvvmcross project architecture and some mvvmcross classes.

.NET Becomes Open Source and Cross-Platform

22 Jan 2015Rion Williams

.NET Becomes Open Source and Cross-Platform

Mobile

.NETCF

Performance Assessment of Android* Applications

20 Jan 2015Android on Intel

In this note, we discuss how to obtain similar performance data for the Android* operating system.

Xamarin forms: Check network connectivity in iOS and Android

28 Jan 2015Divikiran

Network connectivity check using Xamarin forms in iOS and Android

VS2013

Xamarin

Get rid of Parcelable Implemention

4 Jan 2015farhad2161

In this article we will implement a general Parcelable class and name it ParcelableEntity. Then all other entity class can extend it, then they will be parcelable too. So there is no need to implement Parcelable class for other classes.

Current Participants

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

Amir Mohammad Nasrollahi

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Android on Intel

United States

Intel is inside more and more Android devices, and we have tools and resources to make your app development faster and easier.

Arian Celina

Architect

Albania

I am a Software Architect, a web developer, and a Computer Science lecturer. I enjoy solving business problems by providing software solutions to them. My favorite technologies and fields of interest include ASP.NET, C# programming language, Java programming language, Javascript, jQuery, AngularJS, Web Services, REST, and mobile application development

B. Clay Shannon

Founder Across Time & Space

United States

I am in the process of morphing from a software developer into a portrayer of Mark Twain. My monologue (or one-man play, entitled "The Adventures of Mark Twain: As Told By Himself" and set in 1896) features Twain giving an overview of his life up till then. The performance includes the relating of interesting experiences and humorous anecdotes from Twain's boyhood and youth, his time as a riverboat pilot, his wild and woolly adventures in the Territory of Nevada and California, and experiences as a writer and world traveler, including recollections of meetings with many of the famous and powerful of the 19th century - royalty, business magnates, fellow authors, as well as intimate glimpses into his home life (his parents, siblings, wife, and children).

Peripatetic and picaresque, I have lived in eight states; specifically, besides my native California (where I was born and where I now again reside) in chronological order: New York, Montana, Alaska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Idaho, and Missouri.

I am also a writer of both fiction (for which I use a nom de plume, "Blackbird Crow Raven", as a nod to my Native American heritage - I am "½ Cowboy, ½ Indian") and nonfiction, including a two-volume social and cultural history of the U.S. which covers important events from 1620-2006: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/blackbirdcraven

Cindy Potvin

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.

Codeman the Barbarian

Unknown

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

David Maw

Retired Unisys Corporation

United States

I programmed professionally for several decades, first on Burroughs mainframes, then, after it became Unisys, on Windows systems, first using C++ and COM on Win32, then C# on .NET on desktop and phone platforms. My professional life eventually did not involve much programming and now I'm retired, so programming is more of a personal passion.

Divikiran

Software Developer (Senior)

Australia

I am a, hands-on, Microsoft C# Analyst Programmer using Xamarin, Azure, WPF and MVC as my preferred tools, also as Team Lead and Scrum Master. My experience include in analysis, object oriented design, development and implementation of client, server, web and windows based applications and enterprise mobile apps using latest Microsoft technologies such as MVC, WPF and Xamarin Forms.

I have worked with Microsoft technologies for over 10 years building software for various private sector companies, applying both technical knowledge and managerial expertise.

My preferred technology stack includes C#, Azure, WPF, MVC, Entity Framework, Xamarin and SQL Server and highly prefer working on various design patterns and architectures.

An integral part of my work is to provide my clients with a high standard of understandable technical documentation: I have written few articles listed few page down in this resume, designs, as well as User Guides.

Using Azure for over 1.5 year, migrating application to the cloud, fully managed continuous integration for all environments.

farhad2161

Web Developer

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Hugo Carnicelli

Web Developer

France

.NET Consultant hugocarnicelli.com, Microsoft MVP 2016.

Jerry Evans

Architect

United Kingdom

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Lai Taiyu

Instructor / Trainer GJun Information Co.,Ltd.

Taiwan

Dr. Lai Tai-Yu received the Ph.D. from National Taipei University of Technology in 2016. He is the co-author of 2 journal, 25 conference papers, 6 books, 9 articles in the codeproject.com, and 2 patents inventions. His research interests lie in the areas of digital image processing and AI. He is a lecturer.　　

Dr Taiyu Lai. Stopień doktora, uzyskał w 2016 roku i objął stanowisko adiunkta na Wydziale. Ponadto jest autorem i współautorem: 2 publikacji artykułu w czasopiśmie naukowym, 25 artykułów opublikowanych w materiałach konferencyjnych, 6 książek, 9 eseje w monografiach codeproject.com, i posiada dwa patenty. Zainteresowania naukowe: przetwarzania obrazów i AI. Jest wykładowcą.　　

赖岱佑在2016年取得台北科技大学资讯工程博士学位，有2篇期刊、25篇会议论文、6本书籍、9篇文章在 codeproject.com 、2项专利。研究方向：数字图像处理和AI。现职是一位讲师。

賴岱佑在2016年取得台北科技大學資訊工程博士學位，有2篇期刊、25篇會議論文、6本書籍、9篇文章在 codeproject.com 、2項專利。研究方向：數位影像處理和AI。現職是一位講師。

matthewproctor

CEO Kutamo and ErrLog.IO

Australia

Pluralsight Author, .Net Developer, Writer & Blogger

http://www.kutamo.com/
http://www.errlog.io/
http://www.matthewproctor.com/
http://www.pluralsight.com/author/matthew-proctor

I am an Australian IT professional based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

I'm a polyglot programmer, being proficient in a number of languages and frameworks including C#, VB.Net, F#, Javascript, Perl, Powershell and Z80 & 6502 assembly. Smile | :)

Pavel Durov

Software Developer

Israel

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Pooja Baraskar

Software Developer (Senior)

India

Pooja Baraskar is an accomplished software engineer, inventor, and technical author with over a decade of experience in the tech industry. With a passion for innovation and a commitment to excellence, Pooja has established herself as a thought leader and an agent of change in the industry. Currently, Pooja is leading various developer programs globally at Intel, leveraging her expertise and vision to drive impactful initiatives that shape the industry and empower tech professionals around the world.
As a tech trailblazer, Pooja is passionate about challenging the status quo and driving innovation. She is a pioneer in areas such as artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things and has a proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into accessible and actionable ideas. She has an impressive track record of delivering results in complex, high-stakes projects and is continually seeking new ways to drive value and make a difference.
Pooja is also an accomplished technical author. Her writing is known for its clarity, accessibility, and technical accuracy, making her a trusted source of information for developers and tech enthusiasts around the world. Digital courseware For Educators for OpenVINO developer by her has been used to teach AI in several universities across the globe, helping to equip the next generation of tech professionals with innovative skills. Pooja is an active member of the tech community, sharing her expertise through speaking engagements, workshops, and mentorship. Her contributions to the field have been widely recognized, including being named a Top Software Innovator by Intel and a Most Valuable Professional by Microsoft.
In addition to her work in the tech industry, Pooja is an avid traveler, passionate cook, and skilled martial artist. Her diverse interests and experiences have given her a well-rounded perspective on life and work, allowing her to approach challenges with creativity, energy, and enthusiasm.

refusebt

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Rion Williams

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

An experienced Software Developer and Graphic Designer with an extensive knowledge of object-oriented programming, software architecture, design methodologies and database design principles. Specializing in Microsoft Technologies and focused on leveraging a strong technical background and a creative skill-set to create meaningful and successful applications.

Well versed in all aspects of the software development life-cycle and passionate about embracing emerging development technologies and standards, building intuitive interfaces and providing clean, maintainable solutions for even the most complex of problems.

Serge Desmedt

Software Developer (Senior)

Belgium

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Siminov Framework

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Sunasara Imdadhusen

Technical Lead Infostretch Ahmedabad-Gujarat

India

Aspiring for a challenging carrier wherein I can learn, grow, expand and share my existing knowledge in meaningful and coherent way.

sunaSaRa Imdadhusen

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First Prize	Hugo Carnicelli - Visual Studio 2015 and Apache Cordova
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject


First Prize	Pooja Baraskar - Localization in Windows Universal Apps
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject


Second Prize	Sunasara Imdadhusen - Push Notification For Windows, iOS & Android - Quick, Easy and Flexible
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject