On easy example shown how to implement UIKit and SwiftUI TableView auto resizable cells and explained difference between Nib and Xib, how to load nib file and what exactly owner parameter of the load nib file method.

How to Add Live Activity to Your Existing Project - Part I

by Dearich

First part of the ultimate guide on how to add a Live Activity feature to your project

Azure IoT Central Tester

by Roman Kiss

Design and implementation of small tool, tester for Azure IoT Central

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How to integrate Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin in Android Apps

12 Sep 2012 by 3PillarLabs

This article help users to integrate Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, MySpace functionality easily in Android apps.

Android

Mobile

Dev

Installing Applications on android from your computer

30 Aug 2010 by a-machan

The purpose of the article is to provide a simple description to install applications that are not available on android market or for testing our own applications on the device. The android installation executables will have an .apk extension (apk – android package)

Android

Mobile

Generator for SQLite Use in Android

13 Nov 2014 by A.Ebrahimi

Tools introduction for Android developers who use SQlite in coding

Android

Mobile

SQLite

Most Common Failures Related to Windows Phone Marketplace Testing Process

27 Jul 2012 by Abdullatif M. Abu Al Rub

Tips to beat the most common failuers on the App Hub testing process

Windows-Phone-7

Mobile

Dev

Customized StickyGridHeaders

13 Sep 2013 by Ahmed Alaa El-Din

I customized StickyGridHeaders to work on any data and group by any data.

Understanding Ionic 1 Loading Service:$ionicLoading

16 Nov 2016 by Ahmed Bouchefra

In this post, we are going to learn how to use $ionicLoading service with Ionic 1 to give some visual feedback to your app users when some background task is taking place.

Shared Preferences (ANDROID)

20 Jan 2014 by Ahmed Jubayer

Using shared preferences in Android

Android

Mobile

UIScrollView with paging sample for Monotouch Developers

14 Dec 2009 by Ahmet Göktaş

How to use paging with UIScrollView in monotouch c#.net? I found some article for this question but all coding with Objective-C. i couldn't find any c# example. here is UIScrollView Paging with Objective-C. I converted that linked sample to c# and i added some new.UsingFirst you need to...

iPhone

Mobile

Text Max Length Programmatically | Tested on WinPhone APP

31 May 2015 by Alaa Ben Fatma

Choose your text maximum length programmatically and show a message whenever the length = the maximum length

Chocolatechip-UI, Cordova and Android - Handling Physical Back Button Events

22 Aug 2015 by Alfeu Lucas Guedes

How to handle Android physical back button events with Chocolatechip-UI and Cordova.

Get actual screen size for the application layout dynamically

12 Jan 2012 by All Time Programming

Get actual screen size for the application layout dynamically

Android

Mobile

screen

Style Any Activity as an Alert Dialog in Android

19 Jul 2013 by Amanpreet Mukker

Simple trick that I find very useful

Android

Mobile

Write Code for Different Android Versions in Your App

19 Jul 2013 by Amanpreet Mukker

Simple approach to handle fragmentation

Android

Mobile

Parse JSON Data in Android

4 Aug 2013 by Amanpreet Mukker

Parsing JSON data in Android is simple and seamless

Android

Mobile

Facebook & LinkedIn Login with Firebase and Xamarin

12 Sep 2017 by amartya mandal

Facebook & LinkedIn login with Firebase and Xamarin

Create a Code Editor Android Application using CodeView Library

4 Nov 2020 by AmrDeveloper

How to create a Code Editor Android Application for Go Programming Langauge using CodeView Library

Java

Android

Mobile

Android CodeView - the Easiest Way to Highlight Text

7 Apr 2021 by AmrDeveloper

How to use CodeViewAndroid Library in many projects features

Access Genymotion Folders in Windows Explorer/Finder using Smart Disk Pro

2 Dec 2015 by Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Explore your Genymotion Device folders

Selecting Phone Book Contacts in Windows Phone using MVVM

31 Jan 2014 by AnobikDey

The article describes how to select all the contacts in Windows Phone 7 and 8

iPhone Slide Effect in BlackBerry

18 Feb 2012 by AntounPG

Blackberry

Mobile

Bluetooth Desktop Locker with Android Application

5 Nov 2014 by Arkadeep De

Bluetooth Desktop Locker with Android Application

Dynamically resize WebBrowser-control in Silverlight4 for Windows Phone

27 Jan 2011 by Arogarth

Dynamic WebBrowser size

Silverlight4

Windows-Phone-7

Mobile

How to make EditText With Border and Gradient Background in Android Using XML

24 Nov 2014 by ashishkumar008

Here, I am going to apply a good look and feel on EditText in Android. For this purpose, we can use image also but I'll use XML here.

Push to Single Android Device

3 Jun 2014 by Attila Kúr

Alternative Push Notifications (without GCM) targeting a single device

Get Phone Contact Details

18 Jun 2011 by Atulkryadav

Get Phone Contact Details

Android

Mobile

Java Implementation of the Base26GPS Standard

22 Jul 2013 by avi shaby

This tip describes the Java implementation of Base26GPS.

Running Android Apps on Emulator

26 Nov 2012 by Azim Zahir

This article demonstrates running Android applications on emulator.

Android

Mobile

Easiest Way to Call a RESTful Method from Android

4 Apr 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Call a RESTful method from Android without breaking, or in any wise damaging, a sweat

How to View SQLite Data from Droidio

7 Apr 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Step-by-step instructions on how to view SQLite data from Android Studio and SQLite Data Browser

How to Effortlessly become a Historian, Archaeologist, and Forensic Technician (with your Android code)

9 Apr 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

How to View Every Change You've Ever Made to a File in Droidio With No Setup

How to Populate a Spinner (Dropdown/Picklist) with Values in Android

19 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Easily create and hook up values to display in an Android Spinner

Creating and Invoking an Activity in Droidio (Android Studio)

19 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

How to create an Android Activity and its associated Layout file, then invoke (intent) them from another Activity

How to Add an AsyncTask to an Android Activity

16 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Step-by-step instructions for adding an Async Task to an Android Activity

A Collection of the Most Useful Droidio (Android Studio) Hotkeys

21 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

A potentially-exhausting-but-not-exhaustive list of shortcut key combinations to use in Android Studio

Java

Mobile

Dev

Change an Android Layout's default header text

16 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

How to quickly and easily change a Layout's header text

Show a Toast in the Middle of the Android Screen

16 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Simple tip on how to show a toast in response to an event, and center it in the screen

Use Android Themes to Incorporate a DRY Layout

19 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Simple steps needed to globally change a widget property

The Easiest Way to Create a Layout for an Android App Intended for a Single Device

20 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Learn the easiest way to create an Android Layout, especially when form factors of the target devices are limited

Quick-and-Dirty Way to Get All Records from Any SQLite Table (Using Java from Android)

20 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Learn how to get all records from any SQLite table, passing the Table Name as String and receiving a StringBuilder

How to Enclose Multiple Android Widgets in a Rectangle

21 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

In which the user is shown how to enclose multiple widgets in a rectangle

How to Add Borders to Android Widgets

30 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Add borders to Android widgets, such as EditTexts, to "set them off/apart"

Add Menu Items, and Respond to Them, in Android Activities

4 Jun 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Wherein the steps to add menu items, and respond to them being selected, is delineated

How to Reference Colors by Name in Android Layouts

9 Jun 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

A handful of easy steps to enable using names instead of hex vals for colors

How to Send Email From an Exception Block in Android

9 Jun 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Simple code to send email which contains Exception text from a Catch Block

Android project structure (Eclipse)

11 Feb 2012 by Bart Dubois

Memo about structure of the Android project and Support Package

Android

Mobile

Creating Progress Bar When Loading Two or More Async Tasks in Android

17 Dec 2018 by Benktesh Sharma

Tips for tracking progress on multiple async tasks in Android

Use of Realm Object in Realm Event Handler

23 Jun 2018 by Biswal Tanmaya

Use of Realm object in Realm event handler

iPhone Web Application : Creating the Select Books Panel in jQTouch

22 Oct 2010 by bmharwani

In this article, we will learn to create "Select Books" panel that displays the books of the selected category and subcategory.

iPhone

Mobile

Developing iPhone Application: Making a Small Browser

22 Oct 2010 by bmharwani

In this article, we will make a small browser comprising of Text Field, Round Rect Button and a Web View control.

iPhone

Mobile

Access Violation Crash on Windows Phone Devices

21 Apr 2015 by Bogdan Bujdea

Access Violation Crash on Windows Phone Devices

Sitemap/Page Title: in SPA using AngularJS

26 Aug 2015 by Chandan Kumar Chaurasia

This tip will help you to create Sitemap/Page Title on the fly using AngularJS in just few step!

A solution to get rid of the flicker of controls on scroll window(WINCE/WM)

7 Nov 2010 by Chen_Zhuo

Splash Screen using ProgressBar on Windows Phone

9 Jul 2012 by Christian Amado

In this tutorial, we will discuss on ProgressBar & Background worker. Follow the step-by-step tutorial to know how to use these clases.

Switching between List Empty and Busy Indicators for Android ListView

24 Feb 2014 by cigwork

I wanted to show a "no data" legend when there's nothing to show for an asynchronously loaded list and a busy indicator whilst items are being sought/loaded.

How to implement a stack in Objective-C

23 Jul 2011 by Cloud Hsu

Stack implementation for Objective-C.

Objective-C

iPhone

Mobile

How to implement a queue in Objective-C

12 Dec 2013 by Cloud Hsu

How to implement Queue in Objective-C

Objective-C

iPhone

Mobile

Remind review in iPhone apps

12 Dec 2013 by Cloud Hsu

How to remind review in iPhone App

Objective-C

iPhone

Mobile

Implement Singleton Pattern in Objective-C

12 Dec 2013 by Cloud Hsu

Implement Objective-C Singleton Pattern

Objective-C

iPhone

Mobile

Mobile IMEI Validation

21 Dec 2011 by danlobo

There is my version, no use of int arrays. While the while instruction is a good approach in many cases, in this specific one, it is not necessary, since the bigger number will be 18 (9 * 2):private Boolean ValidateIMEI(string IMEI){ if (IMEI.Length != 15) return false; var sum...

Mobile

Access REST Resources Secured By UAG from Mobile Device

21 Jun 2013 by Daron Cox

If you're trying to integrate with UAG from a mobile device, this tip is for you!

Passing Values to an Intent

4 Feb 2013 by DASoftware

Tip on how to pass a value to an intent

Java

Android

Mobile

Configure Intel HAXM with Google Android Studio

9 Feb 2015 by David Fan Quan

Introduction of how to configure Intel's HAXM with Google Android Studio to accelerate Android emulator.

Android

Mobile

How to Name Your Android APP Correctly

12 Feb 2015 by David Fan Quan

Are you sure you really know how to name your app? If you know Activity's label has higher priority than Application's label, you'll get it.

Android

Mobile

UIPopoverPresentationController

15 Nov 2015 by David Lashkhi

Working with UIPopoverPresentationController

Android - To Do\Shopping List

13 Jun 2013 by Deepali Dhingra

This tip explains how to create a to do or Shopping List app with listview, sqlite, dialog and customadapter

Android - To Do\Shopping List [Tip/Trick] - Part 2

13 Jun 2013 by Deepali Dhingra

This tip explains how to create a to do or Shopping List app with listview, sqlite, dialog and customadapter.

Sensors in Android

14 Jun 2015 by Deepali Dhingra

This contains information about Sensors in Android.

Creating Delegates in Objective-C

14 Feb 2015 by Dennis E White

How to create delegates in Objective-C

Change The Image Color in Android

22 Mar 2013 by Dheeraj Singh Bhadoria

This Artical shows that how we can change the color of any image throw Bitmap

How To Make The ListView Aware Of Data Changes

5 Sep 2017 by dimpant

Learn how to properly use the NotifyDataSetChanged method of the ListViewAdapter to remove items from a ListView

Flattening the Recursive Call in the Canny Edge Detector Algorithm

15 Sep 2016 by discompsys

This tutorial describes how to convert the recursive method call in said algorithm into a flat loop call, to save memory in restricted environments.

Cross-platform Mobile Development vs Native Development

9 Sep 2014 by Dominic Burford

Cross-platform mobile development vs native development

Real-Time Web App Made Simple with MVVM Pattern over SignalR - Part 1

15 Jul 2017 by dsuryd

SignalR is great for building real-time web functionality. MVVM is great for developing your front-end. What if they can be used together? This tip will show how to do just that, using as example a simple project to do live chart on a web browser.

Incremental Search on the Web with Dynamic LINQ + SignalR

15 Jul 2017 by dsuryd

Application of "MVVM over SignalR" library described in a previous CodeProject tip, combined with Dynamic LINQ library to do incremental web search by typing the query

Keep Track of Your System or Application With Notifier Mobile Service

9 Dec 2015 by Dung_Le

Keep track of your system or application with Notifier Mobile Service

Executing Asynchronous Tasks using Threads and Updating the UI

21 Apr 2013 by Eduardo Antonio Cecilio Fernandes

Add asynchronous tasks, using threads, in Android activities while updating its progress to the UI. Use this technique for SDKs lower than 1.5.

Workaround to Fix Audio Autoplay on Mobile Browsers!

2 Nov 2013 by Elagizy

Most of the mobile browsers don't support audio autoplay to save mobile bandwidth on behalf of the user!

HTML5

Javascript

Mobile

Bar Chart with Click Listener in Android

20 Apr 2015 by emerR46

Show an option when a selected bar chart is clicked in from screen.

Java

Android

Mobile

Get rid of Parcelable Implemention

4 Jan 2015 by farhad2161

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.

Setting up Apache Cordova for cross-platform mobile development

17 Feb 2015 by Feature Extraction

In this article I will cover the steps to set up Apache Cordova. I’ll first set up the Android SDK, an Android Virtual Device, Apache Ant and finally, Cordova.

PDF Viewer with Cordova and AngularJS

30 Jul 2015 by Fernando Cortes Flores

An Apache Cordova app that can download a PDF from an URL, store the PDF in the device and show the PDF to the user

Free virtual test devices

17 Dec 2012 by Fredrik Bornander

When the emulator isn't enough for testing and the money isn't enough for an actual device

Android

Mobile

testing

Another way of Consuming WCF from PHP, iPhone, JavaMobile, JSON clients

27 Sep 2010 by Frozen Rain

There is a simple way to consume WCF from clients which do not support Microsoft's SOAP implementation. It is achieved by using REST to accept data and convert REST calls to SOAP calls with the PHP Framework.

Android App To Browse A Website

18 Apr 2014 by Garvit Arya

It is a personalized web Browser that can open a certain website directly.

Scrollable div which allows single finger scrolling on iPad

17 Jun 2013 by gcrawley02

The following will provide a quick guide on how to add a scrollable frame which will allow one finger scrolling on ipad (and will also work on desktop browsers)

Common Capturing of GUI Events

4 Dec 2015 by gggustafson

This tip presents a general method for capturing GUI events.

How to Develop a Simple Android Service

9 Mar 2015 by giaosucan

Simple way to create service on Android Application

Java

Android

Mobile

Testing an Application on an iPhone

5 Dec 2013 by Gurunath Navale

Two methods for testing applications on an iPhone.

iPhone

Mobile

testing

Codeless IQKeyboardManager for iOS

24 Nov 2014 by hack.iftekhar

IQKeyboardManager for iOS

iPhone

Mobile

Dev

How to Make Your Own Android Weather Application Using Google Weather API

20 Mar 2014 by Hadrich Mohamed

This tip shows you how to make your own Android Weather Application using XML Parsing.

Java

Android

Mobile

Send email with attachment in Android

13 Oct 2011 by Hamdy Ghanem

How to send an email with attachment in Android.

Android

Mobile

Windows Phone WebBrowser control: Manipulating Page DOM

18 Mar 2014 by Herbert Lausmann

Shows how to manipulate the DOM of a page loaded in WebBrowser control of Windows Phone.

Disable SMS and other messaging on Windows Mobile

3 Mar 2010 by hjgode

If you want to lockdown a user of a Windows Mobile device to not send/receive SMS messages or eMails, you can use a blacklist. First enable Disallow policy on the device and then list all apps you dont like the user to run.REGEDIT4;Enable blacklist of applications that should not...

Mobile

Disable the ActiveSync Partnership setup dialog

4 May 2010 by hjgode

If you are developing for windows mobile devices and got several devices, you may not want to be asked to setup a “New Partnership” on a new connected device.To avoid partnering, you use a registry key and you will no more be asked to setup a partnership with your PocketPC or Windows CE...

Mobile

Windows

Calendar of Events in Windows Phone

15 Oct 2012 by Houssem Dellai