Mobile Zone | Android, Blackberry, iPhone, and Windows Phone 7

Toni Petrina05/19/13
746 views
0 replies

Using Viewbox for Automatic Control Scaling in Windows Phone

Presenting content of varied size can often be tricky. For example, displaying names of metro stations with fixed font size, and it always is a fixed font size, can result in a part of the text being clipped off. Or if you use text wrapping, a large block of text can extend way beyond your intended design.

Deepu Mohan Puthrote05/19/13
3213 views
0 replies

When to Use Interfaces in Your Application

There are several advantages in utilizing the features of Interfaces in general programming. As you may already know, interfaces define a set of functionality as a rule or a contract. When you implement an interface all of these functionality must be implemented in the concrete class.

Adam Grocholski05/18/13
397 views
0 replies

Android to Windows 8: Working with a SQL Database

Learn how to write code in Windows Store apps for Windows 8 that works with structured data in SQLite—apopular database that’s familiar to Android app developers.

Eric Gregory05/17/13
2762 views
0 replies

Data Science Goes Mobile

In this talk from Strata 2013, Yael Garten of LinkedIn explores the wide open world of mobile analytics.

Den Delimarsky05/17/13
857 views
0 replies

Windows Phone Apps - Saved Photos to the User and Back

Den Delimarsky explains what's the best way to handle a tricky photo storage situation in Windows Phone applications.

John Blanco05/17/13
3525 views
0 replies

Google is Winning the Developers; How Apple Can Win Them Back in an Instant

Google is winning the developers. The tools are outpacing Apple’s XCode which still suffers from excruciatingly long wait times to get the most obvious, and obnoxious, bugs fixed up. Storyboards are a duplication of XIB’s without replacing them. Autolayout is an unmitigated disaster.

Alex Ruiz05/17/13
2502 views
0 replies

Android Studio: Our New, Shiny Android IDE

The cat is out of the bag: yesterday, during Google I/O‘s keynote, we announced our new IntelliJ IDEA-based Android IDE, Android Studio. This is what my team has been working on for the past months.

Nico Vermeir05/17/13
775 views
0 replies

Extending the Windows Phone Pivot

I’ve build custom controls in XAML before but never based on an existing one, so fun times ahead. Let me start by showing a side-by-side comparison between both views of my pivot.

Mitch Pronschinske05/17/13
1974 views
0 replies

Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 17)

New JavaScript and CSS tools are on their way, along with a managed NoSQL DB from Google. Plus Jekyll 1.0 and a super-jumping robot.

Shay Shmeltzer05/16/13
401 views
0 replies

ADF Mobile Logging on Android

posted before on how to do code level debugging in your ADF Mobile application, but sometimes debugging is an overhead and you would rather just put out some . . .

Alex Curylo05/16/13
641 views
0 replies

Objective-C Literals

Three new features were introduced into clang at the same time: NSNumber Literals provide a syntax for creating NSNumber from scalar literal expressions; Collection Literals provide a short-hand for creating arrays and dictionaries; Object Subscripting provides a way to use subscripting with Objective-C objects.