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This article describes the development of a cross-platform HTML5 application for Windows Phone and iPhone.
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Be notified in your mobile phone of intruders in your home, and take photos of them
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1 May 2017 by Abu_yanal
Adding Splash screen
22 Apr 2010 by Adrian Vintu
I have previously published an Android vs IPhone comparison and many people requested that I do a comparison of Android vs iPhone vs Nokia vs BlackBerry vs Windows Mobile 7.
29 Sep 2010 by Adrian Vintu
While playing with localization on the Android for my app I came upon an annoying bug.It seems running on Motorola Milestone the fonts were getting smaller on each locale update.I use the following code for locale changing (from http://almondmendoza.com/2009/01/28/force-localize-an-application-
15 Apr 2010 by Adrian Vintu
BlackBerry - IllegalStateException ArticInterface::DocPosToCaret
15 Apr 2010 by Adrian Vintu
Some time ago I found an interesting “feature” on the BlackBerry emulator.It seems under special conditions we get some funny messages.Luckily I was able to reproduce the behavior and here are the steps, the screens and the funny messages.1.
24 Jun 2010 by Adrian Vintu
How to Debug on the Samsung Galaxy I7500 Android Phone
15 Jun 2010 by Adrian Vintu
A comparison of Android vs iPhone vs Nokia vs BlackBerry vs Windows Mobile 7
4 May 2010 by Adrian Vintu
I've had multiple requests on information about developing an (Android) mobile application, so I decided to add my tips in this guideline.
8 Dec 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
If you are a C# fan and want to build applications that reuse the code base for multiple frameworks and platforms, read this post, it would help you "get started".
19 Feb 2017 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
In this article I will give you a complete overview of SQLite databases in Android and how to consume them using Xamarin APIs.
20 Feb 2017 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
In this article, I cover the most widely faced problems in Xamarin installation and setup for Android application development.
21 May 2017 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
Here is my review of official Kotlin shift for Android
7 Nov 2016 by Ahmed Bouchefra
In this post ,we are going to see how to use the mobile phone camera in mobile apps built using the Ionic 2(2.0.0-rc.1) Framework.
3 Jan 2020 by Ahmed Bouchefra
Building, by example, a modal popup using Angular 9 material
15 Jan 2020 by Ahmed Bouchefra
How to integrate and use bootstrap 4 with Angular 9
28 Apr 2020 by Ahmed Bouchefra
Solutions to problems you'll encounter when creating new virtual devices
24 Dec 2015 by Alaa-eddine KADDOURI
If you are reading this you already know that nodejs is a powerful engine for your realtime application or multiplayer game. But it’s not easy to setup an up and running platform, which is self monitored.
12 Apr 2014 by Alex Turok
In a recent post I have covered several approaches to store data in a Windows Phone application. Another important problem is presenting data in an easy and controllable way that would not interfere with other layers of your app.
12 Apr 2014 by Alex Turok
Our applications – no matter whether games, productivity tools or business software – are all about data.
25 Apr 2014 by Alex Turok
How to fail your brand new Windows Phone application
30 Nov 2016 by Alvin Bunk
How to dynamically format Phone field with JavaScript
13 Mar 2013 by Andrey Moskvichev
This is part II of the article series on Drupal and Android integration.
13 Mar 2013 by Andrey Moskvichev
In this article, I'll show you how to detect incoming and outgoing phone calls on the Android platform.
30 Jun 2015 by Andrey Moskvichev
How to add banners into Android app and not overlap other UI elements
5 Jul 2015 by Andrey Moskvichev
This is an efficient way to make button color change on Android
17 Jul 2016 by Andy Point
Firebase Android Tutorial : Adding Registration and Login Hello Developers, this is our android firebase tutorial. In this tutorial we will create an android firebase app that will use firebase android login functionality. This post will help you get you up and running with integrating Firebase to a
20 Jul 2016 by Andy Point
Integrating Facebook Login to Android Application. Now a days almost every web and mobile app provides an option to Login with Facebook. This is because most of the people have a facebook account and facebook has provide an easy to integrate SDK to add Facebook Login to your mobile app.
21 Jul 2016 by Andy Point
Android CardView Tutorial We have already discussed about RecyclerView in the following tutorial Listing Items using RecyclerView and shown a recyclerview example in android studio. Today we will discuss about CardView in Android SDK which was introduced with the android material design through the
1 Nov 2016 by Andy Point
In this Android Spinner Tutorial, we will learn how to make an Android spinner which will allow us to select an item from a drop down menu in Android.
1 Nov 2016 by Andy Point
In this post, we will discuss how to use picasso in Android studio to download images over network by creating a Picasso Android app.
4 Nov 2016 by Andy Point
In this horizontal listview Android example, we will discuss how to create a horizontal listview using RecyclerView.
5 May 2013 by Anuraj Parameswaran
Using existing database in Windows Phone
27 Jan 2015 by Arian Celina
How to develop mobile applications using web development skills
1 Apr 2015 by Arian Celina
How to develop Hybrid Mobile Apps with Phonegap, AngularJS, Bootstrap
30 Jan 2011 by Ashish Kaila
Synergy is a platform toolkit that unleashes the power of WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 platforms. In this blog I will discuss the Windows 7 phone part of this library and how it helps to somehow converge development practices to that of WPF and leverage data binding capabilities.
19 Apr 2011 by Austin Rasmussen
The Android ListActivity makes it simple to display a list of items in your application.
19 Apr 2011 by Austin Rasmussen
Continued from: Android Lists: ListActivity and ListView I.
24 Jun 2014 by BC3Tech
OCD Windows Phone photogs, beware
14 Jul 2014 by BC3Tech
How to localize your app name and tile on Windows Phone 8
22 Aug 2014 by BC3Tech
Windows Phone 8, Family Safety, and your kids
14 Sep 2014 by BC3Tech
Let’s have a look at some tweaks to the default phone project created for Windows Phone 8.0 (and 8.1 Silverlight)
2 Nov 2015 by BC3Tech
If you can't deploy to Windows 10 Mobile 10581, read this...
2 Feb 2016 by BC3Tech
If you’ve followed .Netitude for a while, you definitely know I’m a fan of Continuous Integration.
3 Feb 2016 by BC3Tech
In my last post we talked about setting up CI & CD for your Xamarin.Android project. Let’s continue on with our cross-platform story today by targeting Windows 10.
4 Feb 2016 by BC3Tech
In the final installment of my Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment series, we’ll tackle the real wrench in the system: iOS.
12 Aug 2014 by Ben Liebert
Using jQuery Binding to Make Cross-domain Calls with Closure Callbacks
28 Jan 2013 by BillOsuch
Finding your SDK debug certificate MD5 fingerprint using Keytool.
25 Aug 2015 by Bogdan Bujdea
Why it is sad to be a Windows Phone developer
26 Aug 2015 by Bogdan Bujdea
Why I am a happy Windows Phone developer
19 Dec 2013 by Bryan O'Connell
This post discusses some simple tools for Rapid Mobile development
12 May 2015 by Bryan O'Connell
Exploring TypeScript and what makes it sweet
18 Aug 2010 by Chief Endian
Creating Macros in VIM Editor
18 May 2016 by Chris 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.
18 Mar 2014 by Cindy Potvin
This post gives 5 tips to improve performance in Android applications
4 Mar 2014 by Cindy Potvin
How to create logs in Android applications
31 Mar 2014 by Cindy Potvin
How to format dates with Java in Android applications
6 May 2014 by Cindy Potvin
How to save data in your Android application
2 Jun 2014 by Cindy Potvin
How to save data to a file in your Android application
18 Jun 2014 by Cindy Potvin
This is the third post in my series about saving data in Android.
15 Sep 2014 by Cindy Potvin
How to build maintainable Android applications
3 Nov 2014 by Cindy Potvin
This is the last post in my series about saving data in your Android application.
4 May 2015 by Cindy Potvin
How to show a Toast for a specific duration in Android
26 May 2015 by Cindy Potvin
Saving an image in a SQLite database in your Android application
3 Apr 2013 by ClayJones
The iPhone’s keyboard takes up a whopping 216px, and sometimes text fields are positioned towards the bottom. When the keyboard appears, they are hidden.
29 Jan 2015 by Codeman the Barbarian
Trouble with Adapters
1 Sep 2020 by CodingKnight
An examination of PySide and PyQt to help find out which one to use
18 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
This blog post describes the implementation of a metro ’tilt’ effect for Windows Phone 7 which causes element to respond to user interactions by tilting in 3D.
17 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
This blog post describes a Windows Phone 7 NavigationList control, a list control designed for navigation pages. The NavigationList renders twice as fast as a ListBox and has a slightly simpler API.
18 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
In this blog post, I look at how to implement the fly-out fly-in effect seen in native Windows Phone 7 applications. This effect is seen in the native mail application; when you click on a message, the title flies out of the list then flies back in as the title of the message page.
18 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
How to implement the animated 'peel' effect seen when native Windows Phone 7 applications exit
17 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
This blog post presents an attached behaviour that gracefully slides the contents of a list into view when used in conjunction with a Pivot control, emulating the Windows Phone 7 email application.
19 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
Metro In Motion #5 – SandwichFlow
24 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
This blog post shows how to implement tombstoning within a Windows Phone 7 application that follows the Model-View-ViewModel pattern.
16 Jun 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
A simple metro-in-motion behaviour which reduces the Panorama control’s contents while the user slides from item-to-item so that they can really appreciate your fancy background graphic!
8 Aug 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
This blog post describes how to implement a conversation / messaging style application with Windows Phone 7. It covers how to style the speech bubbles and the scrolling of the conversation list view when the phone keyboard is shown.
16 Sep 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
TweetSearch – A cross platform Metro UI WinRT and Silverlight Application
8 Dec 2011 by Colin Eberhardt
A slide view with page pips on Windows Phone 7
16 Jan 2012 by Colin Eberhardt
Browsing your Photos via Bing Maps
31 Jul 2012 by Colin Eberhardt
This blog post describes the creation of a simple Twitter search application for iOS, based on a similar application I wrote for Windows Phone a few months back.
23 Dec 2012 by Colin Eberhardt
The aim of PropertyCross is to make it easier for developers to choose a suitable framework from the ever-growing range of cross-platform mobile application development frameworks. This blog post provides a little bit of background to the project.
15 Apr 2013 by Colin Eberhardt
This blog post describes the addition of a two-finger rotation and three-finger pitch gesture to the Windows Phone 8 Map control.
27 Jun 2014 by Cybermaxs
Xamarin.Forms: One UI to Rule Them All?
29 Aug 2014 by Cybermaxs
How speedy.js is your web site?
27 Jul 2011 by Dan Colasanti
What I learned while evaluating and integrating XNA ad-network SDKs.
1 Jul 2013 by Dan Colasanti
Advertising Network Options for WP7 XNA Games – Revisited
31 Mar 2017 by Dan Colasanti
AutoResetEvent can be used in place of AsyncWaitHandle and provides a thread-blocking WaitOne signaled timeout function, which can be put on a background thread in order to not block the main UI thread.
19 Nov 2014 by Dan Rowinski
When the smartphone meets the automobile, the future of technology is the road ahead.The post Auto + Mobile: Cars Have Always Driven The Future Of Technology appeared first on ARC.
19 Nov 2014 by Dan Rowinski
It is 2014. Your website should be optimized for smartphones. The post Google Search Results To Highlight Mobile-Friendly Content appeared first on ARC.
20 Jul 2011 by Daniel Vaughan
The custom ProgressIndicatorProxy provides a simple way to harness the new ProgressIndicator from your XAML.
20 Jul 2011 by Daniel Vaughan
Some really nice techniques for handling asynchronous network calls.
26 Aug 2011 by Daniel Vaughan
The custom ProgressIndicatorProxy provides a simple way to harness the new ProgressIndicator from your XAML.
15 Apr 2013 by Daniel Vaughan
Generating localized resources in Mono for Android using T4.
31 Dec 2011 by Dave C Andrews
How to access the Internet from a Blackberry simulator
15 May 2011 by David Truxall
RIM is trying to give the enterprise market to someone, why isn’t Microsoft taking it this time?
22 Dec 2011 by David Truxall
Living in a Mobile Bubble
20 Nov 2009 by DavidSchmitt
Android development FAIL
20 Oct 2011 by Derek Lakin
Additional MessageBox features on Windows Phone 7.
2 Apr 2012 by deveck
This article describes how to create a REST WCF-Webservice which can be consumed on Android devices.