Best Mobile Article of March 2017

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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.

Check out the submission guidelines for information on posting articles.

Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

A Complete Anti Theft Homemade Surveillance System

10 Mar 2017Miguel Diaz Kusztrich

Be notified in your mobile phone of intruders in your home, and take photos of them

.NET

Mobile

Arduino

Windows

camera

surveillance

How to Build iPhone & Android Mobile Apps with Angular 14, Ionic Capacitor 3, SwipeClouds & WebRTC

27 Jan 2021Bill SerGio, The Infomercial King

XCODE & Android Studio mobile app projects built using Ionic's Capacitor with an Angular 14 UI. Includes WebRTC for video conferencing, and SwipeClouds for Playing Millions of HD Movies & Videos and A Custom Capacitor Plugin for Scraping User Data for Targeted Delivery of video ads to mobile phones.

Fullscreen Video Background Control for Xamarin.Forms

4 Mar 2017Junian Triajianto

How to play video as page background, like Spotify and Uber, using Xamarin.Forms with Android and iOS Custom Renderer.

.NET

Xamarin

Take three tablets and call me in the morning - the Chuwi Hi12

28 Feb 2017OriginalGriff

The Nexus 7, the Amazon Fire 7 inch, and the Chuwi Hi12. A personal review.

Win10

Android

My New Tool For Creating Xamarin App Icons

27 Mar 2017S Ravi Kumar (TechieRathore)

This is my new tool for creating Xamarin app icons

Xamarin

Kill AXML - Programmatic ListViews in Xamarin Android

27 Mar 2017Lee P Richardson

Kill AXML - Programmatic ListViews in Xamarin Android

Android

Mobile

Xamarin

All About MFC Serialization

9 Jan 2019steveb

Describes all aspects of MFC serialization mechanism

Getting Started with MonoGame using Visual Studio

15 Mar 2017Simon Jackson

MonoGame (for those of you not yet aware) is a Game Building Framework / API born from the ashes that was the Microsoft XNA Framework that provides a very easy to use API to build games.

Generating Anagrams at Breakneck Speed

9 Mar 2017Graeme_Grant

A documented journey looking for the fastest solution for generating valid Anagrams for the Weekly Code Project Challenge...

Mobile App development using DroidScript App

14 Mar 2017Azim Zahir

This article demonstrates using the DroidScript App to develop database Apps for Android Mobiles

Java

Javascript

Android

Meteor Tutorial for Web and Mobile App Development

24 Mar 2017Imran Abdul Ghani

Meteor is one of the most popular JavaScript platform for web and mobile application development. Just like Ionic (we covered in previous Mobile App Development Tutorial), we will explore various features of Meteor as a web and mobile app development platform.

.NET

Mobile

Windows

Current Participants

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

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.

Bill SerGio, The Infomercial King

CEO GeminiGroup TV, Inc.

United States

Bill SerGio is a highly accomplished individual, recognized in prestigious publications such as Marquis Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Advertising. With a background in software development and producing and directing famous celebrity infomercials, he has amassed a considerable fortune through television and licensing his software. Currently, he is deeply invested in developing anti-gravity technology using artificial intelligence, as well as utilizing AI for research into finding new cures for diseases such as cancer. In addition, he is also an investor in new movies, demonstrating a wide-ranging and diversified interest in various fields.

Graeme_Grant

Technical Lead

Australia

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

Imran Abdul Ghani

Software Developer (Senior) Emaratech

United Arab Emirates

Imran Abdul Ghani has more than 10 years of experience in designing/developing enterprise level applications. He is Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .NET(MCSD.NET) since 2005. You can reach his blogging at WCF Tutorials, Web Development, SharePoint for Dummies.

Junian Triajianto

Software Developer (Senior)

Indonesia

5+ years experience in Software Engineering. I love to develop solution using C# and .NET Technology very much. I also enjoy building iOS and Android apps using Xamarin. My strength is in algorithm design and analysis. I also have a great ability in solving programming and system trouble.

I regularly write on my blog.

Lee P Richardson

Web Developer

United States

Lee is a Microsoft MVP and a prolific writer, speaker, and youtuber on .Net and open source topics. Lee is a Solution Samurai at InfernoRed ( http://infernoredtech.com). When not coding he enjoys running, mountain biking, smoking brisket, electronics, 3D printing, and woodworking. He is active on twitter where you can reach him @lprichar ( https://twitter.com/lprichar).

Miguel Diaz Kusztrich

Software Developer (Senior) Free lance

Spain

I'm working with computers since the 80's of the past century, when I received as a present a 48K Spectrum which changed all my life plans, from a scientific career to a technical one. I started working in assembler language, in low lewel systems, mainly in the electromedical field. Today I work as a freelance, mainly in .NET Framework / database solutions, using the C# language.

I'm interested in scientific computer applications, and I,m learning AI and data analytics technics. I also own a technical blog, http://software-tecnico-libre.es/en/stl-index, where I publish some of the practice works of this learning process.

OriginalGriff

CEO

Wales

Born at an early age, he grew older. At the same time, his hair grew longer, and was tied up behind his head.
Has problems spelling the word "the".
Invented the portable cat-flap.
Currently, has not died yet. Or has he?

S Ravi Kumar (TechieRathore)

Architect

India

Hi There, I am an IT professional with 14 years of experience in architecting, designing and building IT solutions for complex business needs in form of mobile & web applications using Microsoft technologies. Currently working in an multinational company in India as Solutions Architect. The articles here are sourced from my blog : http://techierathore.com/

Simon Jackson

Architect ZenithMoon Studios

United Kingdom

Long-time game developer / IT maniac.
By day I architect, design, build and deliver enriching Mixed Reality solutions to clients, bringing the work of AR/VR to light in new and interesting ways, by night I Masquerade as the Master Chief of ZenithMoon Studios, my own game development studio.

At heart, I am a community developer breaking down lots of fun and curious technologies and bringing them to the masses.

I'm also a contributor to several open-source projects, most notably, the Reality Toolkit and all the services provided by the Reality Collective, The Unity-UI-Extensions project, as well as in the past the AdRotator advertising rotator project for Windows and Windows Phone.

Currently, I spend my time fulfilling contracts in the Mixed Reality space (primarily for an XR experience firm called Ethar), writing books, technically reviewing tons of material and continuing my long tradition of contributing to open-source development, as well as delivering talks, but that goes without saying Big Grin | :-D

Mixed Reality MVP, Xbox Ambassador, MS GameDevelopment Ambassador & Best selling author:

[Accelerating Unity Through Automation](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Accelerating-Unity-Through-Automation-Offloading/dp/1484295072/ref=rvi_sccl_3/262-0817396-1418043)
[Mastering Unity 2D Game Development] (https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/mastering-unity-2d-game-development)
[Unity 3D UI Essentials] (https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/unity-3d-gui-essentials)

steveb

Architect Robotz Software

United States

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

First Prize	Miguel Diaz Kusztrich - A Complete Anti Theft Homemade Surveillance System
Prize pool	CodeProject Mug - CodeProject


Second Prize	Junian Triajianto - Fullscreen Video Background Control for Xamarin.Forms
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject

Contest Entries and Requirements

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.
Entries must be an article, or blog entry.
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).
Articles entries must follow the CodeProject submission guidelines.
No cheating, lying, plagiarizing articles, chicanery, or kicking.
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.
No author can be nominated twice in the same category.
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.
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.
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In the event of a tie, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
Multiple votes from the same IP will be automatically disqualified.
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