Articles by Cindy Potvin (Articles: 3, Technical Blogs: 24)

Articles: 3, Technical Blogs: 24

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Android	How To Get Started With Android Development 18 Apr 2016 Updated: 20 May 2016 Rating: 3.90/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 4.70 Licence: CPOL Views: 31,275 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to get started with Android development
	Using Android Traceview in Eclipse 14 Jan 2014 Updated: 14 Jan 2014 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.65 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,235 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use Android Traceview in Eclipse
React Native	How to Close a React Native Modal with a Button 11 Sep 2021 Updated: 11 Sep 2021 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 44,764 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Add a close button to a React Native and close the modal by clicking beside it.

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	Book Review : Soft Skills by John Sonmez [Technical Blog] 30 Dec 2014 Updated: 30 Dec 2014 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,690 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Book review: Soft Skills by John Sonmez
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Android	Saving Preferences in your Android Application [Technical Blog] 18 Jun 2014 Updated: 18 Jun 2014 Rating: 4.19/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 2.93 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,991 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is the third post in my series about saving data in Android.
	How to Show a Toast for a Specific Duration in Android [Technical Blog] 4 May 2015 Updated: 4 May 2015 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.11 Licence: CPOL Views: 46,727 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to show a Toast for a specific duration in Android
	How to Get Started with Android Development: Layout Managers [Technical Blog] 30 Jan 2017 Updated: 31 Jan 2017 Rating: 4.64/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,940 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to get started with Android development: Layout managers
	Creating Logs in Android Applications [Technical Blog] 3 Mar 2014 Updated: 4 Mar 2014 Rating: 4.11/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 2.87 Licence: CPOL Views: 30,302 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to create logs in Android applications
	5 Tips to Improve Performance in Android Applications [Technical Blog] 18 Mar 2014 Updated: 18 Mar 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,550 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post gives 5 tips to improve performance in Android applications
	Formatting Dates with Java in Android Applications [Technical Blog] 31 Mar 2014 Updated: 31 Mar 2014 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.91 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,840 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to format dates with Java in Android applications
	Introduction: How to Save Data in your Android Application [Technical Blog] 6 May 2014 Updated: 6 May 2014 Rating: 4.29/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,291 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to save data in your Android application
	Saving Data to a File in Your Android Application [Technical Blog] 26 May 2014 Updated: 2 Jun 2014 Rating: 4.35/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.16 Licence: CPOL Views: 72,557 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to save data to a file in your Android application
	Saving to a SQLite Database in Your Android Application [Technical Blog] 11 Aug 2014 Updated: 13 Aug 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,860 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is the fourth post in my series about saving data in Android applications.
	Building Maintainable Android Applications [Technical Blog] 15 Sep 2014 Updated: 15 Sep 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,791 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to build maintainable Android applications
	Storing the State of an Activity of your Android Application [Technical Blog] 3 Nov 2014 Updated: 3 Nov 2014 Rating: 4.65/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.20 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,541 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is the last post in my series about saving data in your Android application.
	Display a String List in an Android ListView [Technical Blog] 26 Jan 2015 Updated: 26 Jan 2015 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,781 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to display a string List in an Android ListView
	Saving An Image in a SQLite Database in Your Android Application [Technical Blog] 26 May 2015 Updated: 26 May 2015 Rating: 4.20/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 43,365 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Saving an image in a SQLite database in your Android application
	How to Get Started with Android Development – Basic Structure [Technical Blog] 2 Oct 2016 Updated: 3 Oct 2016 Rating: 4.70/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.48 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,742 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to get started with Android development - Basic structure
	How to Get Started with Android Development – Layout Managers [Technical Blog] 17 Oct 2022 Updated: 17 Oct 2022 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,510 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. At the end of my last article, I left you hanging after describing activities, without telling you how to build a UI, so here we go.
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C#	Character Encoding with ASP.NET MVC Helpers [Technical Blog] 15 Apr 2014 Updated: 15 Apr 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,011 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Character Encoding with ASP.NET MVC Helpers
Javascript	Basic JavaScript Arrays Reminder [Technical Blog] 6 Jun 2016 Updated: 6 Jun 2016 Rating: 4.60/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.19 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,520 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Basic JavaScript arrays reminder
Razor	Using the jQuery UI datepicker with ASP.NET MVC [Technical Blog] 5 Aug 2015 Updated: 5 Aug 2015 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.67 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,581 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use the jQuery UI datepicker with ASP.NET MVC
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ASP.NET	What is SignalR and Why Should I Use It? [Technical Blog] 23 Mar 2015 Updated: 18 Apr 2016 Rating: 4.66/5 Votes: 28 Popularity: 6.67 Licence: CPOL Views: 44,294 Bookmarked: 35 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What is SignalR and why should I use it?
HTML	Adding a Favicon to a Site [Technical Blog] 14 Jan 2014 Updated: 14 Jan 2014 Rating: 4.60/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,202 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to add a favicon to a site
IIS	Many Web.config Have Merged Together [Technical Blog] 24 Nov 2014 Updated: 24 Nov 2014 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,961 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Many Web.config have merged together
LESS	.LESS Web.config/DotlessConfiguration Options [Technical Blog] 14 Jan 2014 Updated: 14 Jan 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,870 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Many options of the .LESS CSS parser can be set directly from the Web.config file, but many of them are not clearly described. Here is my attempt to document them.
	Introduction to LESS: An Easier Way to Create CSS Stylesheets [Technical Blog] 10 Feb 2014 Updated: 10 Feb 2014 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.20 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,633 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. LESS: An easier way to create CSS stylesheets

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Cindy Potvin

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Cindy Potvin is a software developer based in the Montreal area. At her day job, she creates web applications using the ASP.NET MVC framework and mobile applications using the Android SDK.