Best Mobile Article of May 2016

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Contribute to CodeProject and you'll automatically be in the running for a monthly prize!

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.

Check out the submission guidelines for information on posting articles.

Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

Tree View in Swift For iOS

22 May 2016pgmr_64804

Tree View in Swift for iOS that is easy to implement and use

Swift

iPhone

Mobile

Xcode

Improve the Security of Android Applications using Hooking Techniques: Part 1

6 May 2016Android on Intel

In this article, I will share a few studies that are conducted using the hooking technique to provide a simple and effective protection solution against certain offline attacks in Android applications.

C++

Android

Built to Sell: Why You Shouldn’t Wait to Think About Your Mobile Monetization Strategy

2 May 2016Android on Intel

In this article, we’ll look at how thinking about monetization near the beginning of the development process can give you an opportunity to tailor your strategy to your target audience—and integrate it more seamlessly into your product.

Android

Mobile

Intel® Tamper Protection Toolkit Helps Protect the Scrypt Encryption Utility against Reverse Engineering

2 May 2016Android on Intel

This article describes how the Intel® Tamper Protection Toolkit can help protect critical code and valuable data in a password-based encryption utility (Scrypt Encryption Utility) [3] against static and dynamic reverse-engineering and tampering.

Improve the Security of Android Applications using Hooking Techniques: Part 2

6 May 2016Android on Intel

Improve the Security of Android Applications using Hooking Techniques: Part 2

Android

Intel® Collaboration Suite for WebRTC Simplifies Adding Real-Time Communication to Your Applications

6 May 2016Android on Intel

To ease adoption of this WebRTC technology and make it widely available to expand or create new applications, Intel has developed the end-to-end WebRTC solution, Intel® Collaboration Suite for WebRTC (Intel® CS for WebRTC).

Good Performance: Three Developers’ Behaviors that Prevent It!

2 May 2016Android on Intel

In this article, I will talk about applications’ good performance and three developers’ behaviors that prevent it.

How To Deploy Your Mobile App Backend In Google Compute Engine (GCE)

7 May 2016k11dave

Integrating Google Compute Engine for your mobile app backend data is the best thing for success of your mobile app.

Custom App Chooser in Android

4 May 2016shash kant

How to develop a custom App Chooser to show SMS and Whatsapp in Chooser dialog

Java

Android

Mobile

Learn Android MVP Pattern By Example

9 May 2016Val Okafor

In this tutorial, I will share a practical example of Model View Presenter (MVP) pattern in Android development. MVP is a design pattern and when it comes to Android development some of the examples available online are heavy on theories.

Java

Android

Mobile

SQLite Wrapper for iOS in Swift

17 Sep 2016pgmr_64804

An easy SQLite Wrapper for iOS in swift that allows you to create a database and run SQL commands

Xamarin Master-Detail Page

31 Aug 2016n.podbielski

This article cover different solutions for Master-Detail page control/mechanism in Xamarin.

master/detail

Xamarin

controls

Use of Xamarin Forms with Prism, Decoupled UI and Testing - Part 1

3 May 2016Divikiran

Part 1 is about setting up Prism and Xamarin Forms

.NET

VS2013

Xamarin

C++ Object Relational Mapping (ORM)- Eating the Bun - Part 1 of N

20 Apr 2019BrainlessLabs.com, sibani.p

Creating a simple ORM for C++ on-top of SQL database

Time to change from a Smart Phone to a Smart PC

18 May 2016Chris Boss

While many companies have been trying to jump onto the Smart Phone bandwagon over the years, Windows devices seem to have had a troubled path there.

MFC Project from Existing Code in One Click

6 Aug 2016Petrov Vladimir

The alternative way of the MFC Project from Existing Code creation

A Web Browser App in Android

26 May 2016Azim Zahir

This article demonstrates creating a Browser App in Android

Current Participants

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

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.

Azim Zahir

Instructor / Trainer NIIT, India

India

I am a trainer by profession. Currently I am working with iFuture Technologies(India) as a Senior Faculty. I enjoy programming as a hobby. During my career I have seen the growth and decline of many technologies, many of them being my favorites like Flash, WPF, Windows Mobile Development. Few of my current favorites are Android, Xamarin and Python, though I also like traditional and evergreen languages like PHP, C#, Visual Basic and Java.

Apart from computers, my favorite pastime is bicycling.

BrainlessLabs.com

Architect

India

I like to explore different aspects of technology. Try new things, and get delighted. My interests are programming language, and Imaging. But its not hard to work on other things also. Algorithms delight me over a coffee break.

I basically code in C++, but JAVA is not so alien for me. I know few scripting languages also. Basically I feel that knowing a programing language is just a matter of getting introduced to it.

For my other articles check my blog on homepage:

http://brainlesslabs.com/

https://github.com/BrainlessLabsInc

http://www.luxrender.net/en_GB/authors_contributors - SMISRA

Chris Boss

Software Developer Computer Workshop

United States

Chris Boss is the owner (and programmer) of a small software development business in rural Virginia, called the Computer Workshop. For the last ten years or so he has been developing tools for use by Powerbasic programmers (see: http://powerbasic.com ). His main product called EZGUI (Easy GUI) is a high level GUI engine with Visual Designer and code generator. It is in its fifth generation now. He is an experienced Windows API programmer (more low level) and has experience in writing GUI engines (forms/controls), drag and drop Visual Designers, Graphics engines (printing and to the screen) and one of his favorites is a Sprite engine (2D animated movable images). His current project is version 5.0 of his main product EZGUI, adding such features as multi-monitor support, component engine, custom control engine, superclass engine and the latest project a 3D OpenGL based custom control. One of the goals he has is to push the limits of Windows software development, while making it easy, fast execution speed, small footprint (size of executables) and code reusability while providing a more graphic experience in user interfaces, while still being able to write software which can fit on a floppy disk (small footprint), use minimal amount of memory and able to run on multiple versions of Windows from 95 to Win8.

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.

k11dave

Technical Writer Tatvic

India

Karan Dave is a Sr. content writer Google Analytics firm, Tatvic. He has blended his interests in analytics with the writing capabilities to provide resourceful information for varied audiences. During his occasional escapes to the Himalayas, he likes to keep himself away from being a technocrat to a tech-free nomad.

n.podbielski

Software Developer

Poland

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

Petrov Vladimir

Russian Federation

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

pgmr_64804

Systems Engineer

United States

I Graduated with a Computer Information Science Degree in 1990 and have been working developing systems since then.

I started in COBOL, moved to PROGRESS, did a little RPG, then moved on to Mobile apps and desktop applications.

It's been a great journey Smile | :)

shash kant

Architect HCL Technologies

India

Shashi is working as Lead Solutions Architect at Uptick Entertainment Inc. His main area of interest is designing and distributed systems. He has worked in domains like Telecom applications, Gaming and Banking.

Val Okafor

Software Developer (Senior) ValOkafor.com

United States

My name is Val Okafor, I am a Senior Software Engineer with specialization in Android Development. Learning and problem solving is my passion and I share my Android development knowledge through my blog ValOkafor.com.

My Android courses are the courses I wish I had when I started. I teach Android development in the context of a fully developed Android app. I believe that new Android concepts are better understood if they are presented in the context of creating an app from scratch to finish.

I focus on creating Productivity Android apps and besides Android development I have 7 years’ experience as System Administrator supporting Enterprise applications and 2 years’ experience as a Web Developer building websites using PHP and ASP.Net.

I have worked for corporations such as The Home Depot, American Council on Exercise, Legend3D and HD Supply, Inc. I have a bachelor's degree in Information Technology from National University San Diego, California and a master's degree in Software Engineering from Regis University Denver, Colorado.

I enjoy sharing my extensive work experience through my blog, social media.

First Prize	Val Okafor - Learn Android MVP Pattern By Example
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject


Second Prize	Chris Boss - Time to change from a Smart Phone to a Smart PC
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject

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