Best Mobile Article of March 2014

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Contribute to CodeProject and you'll automatically be in the running for a monthly prize!

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.

5 Tips to Improve Performance in Android Applications

18 Mar 2014Cindy Potvin

This post gives 5 tips to improve performance in Android applications

Android

Mobile

Using CocoaPods on iOS

4 Mar 2014Melih Mucuk

Configuring and using CocoaPods on iOS projects.

Creating a Windows Azure SQL Database

4 Mar 2014Malak Zia Nasir

Cloud computing is the trend of nowadays; this article provides some basic steps to create and connect a Windows Azure SQL Database to a simple application.

Why Users Uninstall Apps

4 Mar 2014Android on Intel

Getting an app developed is just the first step in a long journey. One of the more daunting problems facing developers is user engagement; basically, how to get users to install apps and keep them installed

Android

Mobile

product-showcase

Pros and Cons of HTML5 Cross-Platform Android* Mobile App Development Tools on Intel® Processor-based Devices

4 Mar 2014Android on Intel

Pros and cons of HTML5 cross-platform mobile application development tools

Extension to the AWS .NET SDK: Effective EMR usage

3 Mar 2014SupperSlonic

An extension to the Amazon .NET API that allows you to store the EMR Job’s flow description in a file or in an object, run and manage the flow locally, support an alternative flow in case of error

Power Over IP: Testing of the First Experimental Facility

1 Apr 2014Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Joint Power over IP project has started the phase of public testing. All testers can try it out and charge their laptop batteries, free of charge, for limited period of time.

How to make your Android projects more portable to Windows/MacOS (and vice versa)

15 Apr 2014Tiancheng Hu

Using ThinkAlike, an ongoing Java MVVM framework(employing Android and JavaFX as view layer), to implement a cross-platform HearthStone game card reference and more.

Writing a 16-bit dummy kernel in C/C++

13 Mar 2014AshakiranBhatter

Understanding FAT file system and kernel programming in C/C++

Beginner's Guide to HTML5 & CSS3 - Part 1 of 12

27 Mar 2014James Jensen

Writing Your First Code

CPDroid (CodeProject on Fly !!)

20 Mar 2014maq_rohit

A lazy and attractive tool for CodeProject

Windows Phone WebBrowser control: Manipulating Page DOM

18 Mar 2014Herbert Lausmann

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

Developer? 5 Reasons To Make A Mobile App

24 Mar 2014Michael Banzon

Here are 5 reasons to make a mobile app

Mobile

How to do some magic with indexedDB

26 Mar 2014David Fahlander

Discover the hidden features of indexedDB!

iCPVanity: CP Vanity for iOS 7

12 Mar 2014Serge Desmedt

A port of CP Vanity to iOS

How to Solve Issues of Internet Not Working with Windows Phone 8 Emulator

4 Mar 2014RaviRanjanKr

This blog will help you to solve the issues while connecting Internet with Windows Phone 8 emulator during deployment process.

Interoperation Issues in Mixed C/C++/Objective-C Development, Part 2

25 Mar 2014Anna Koneva

An article about interoperation issues in mixed C/C++/Objective-C development

WP8 Breaks Bad (cooking with MEF)

19 Mar 2014BC3Tech

Microsoft’s Managed Extensibility Framework is somewhat of an unsung hero in the .Net world in my opinion. The framework itself is insanely powerful and magical but when you combine it with other patterns and frameworks like MVVM it becomes pure sorcery.

Windows-Phone-8

Creating Logs in Android Applications

4 Mar 2014Cindy Potvin

How to create logs in Android applications

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

20 Mar 2014Hadrich Mohamed

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

Java

Android

Mobile

Current Participants

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

Android on Intel

United States

Intel is inside more and more Android devices, and we have tools and resources to make your app development faster and easier.

Anna Koneva

Russian Federation

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

AshakiranBhatter

Software Developer

United States

Ashakiran is from Hyderabad, India and currently working as a Software Engineer in USA. He is a hobbyist programmer and enjoys writing code.

BC3Tech

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

I'm a Sr. Software Engineer in the Seattle area primarily focused on serverless technologies in the cloud. In my free time I enjoy hiking & other adventures with my family around the Puget Sound and the country! You can find out more about me at my homepage: http://bc3.tech/brandonh

Cindy Potvin

Canada

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.

David Fahlander

Software Developer (Senior) Awarica AB

Sweden

Programming is in my blood and I started to code in the age of 12.

I have been working with software development as inventor, architect and team leader ever since 1998.

Education: Mathematics and Computer Science Program at Stockholm University and the Royal Technical Institute.

Background in the Commodore 64 scene back in 1990, I was coder and musician in the famous hacker group Triad where my alias is Daw.

Hadrich Mohamed

Student

Tunisia

Microsoft Certified Professional, Big Data and Cloud Architect.
Mail : hadrichmed@gmail.com

Herbert Lausmann

Student

Brazil

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

James Jensen

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

I am an experienced developer, having spent my first 17 professional years in various Unix-like environments, following up with Windows since 1998. I have worked in web development teams since 2001, focused initially on Java but now fully settled into the .NET world. I have written production-value code in 8086 assembler, (various forms of) BASIC, Pascal, xnix shell (korn, mostly), C, C++, C#, and Java. When I code for fun at home, I usually play with Delphi, but I also keep an eye on Python because my friends keep telling me how cool it is.

Malak Zia Nasir

CEO

Philippines

Old profile

maq_rohit

Technical Lead

United States

Rohit started Embedded Programing in his college days and now he is a Software Developer by Profession. Mainly he interested in cutting edge technology offer by Microsoft (i.e Azure,MVC). He Loves coding and his passion is always been towards Microsoft Technologies. Apart from coding his other hobbies include reading books and hang out with friends is his most favorite past time hobby.

1. 20 Apr 2014: Best Mobile Article of March 2014 - First Prize

Melih Mucuk

Software Developer NoMad Commerce

Turkey

Melih Mucuk

Software & Mobile App Developer

Visit my blog: http://melihmucuk.com

Michael Banzon

Denmark

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

RaviRanjanKr

Software Developer

India

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

Serge Desmedt

Software Developer (Senior)

Belgium

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

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Architect

United States

Physics, physical and quantum optics, mathematics, computer science, control systems for manufacturing, diagnostics, testing, and research, theory of music, musical instruments…

SupperSlonic

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

https://supperslonic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004059913750

Tiancheng Hu

Technical Lead

China

Tiancheng Hu is a senior tech consultant working at an ISV company (major products including scanner-based ECM, Asset Management), and holds Bachelor(SJTU@China) and Master(KIT@Japan) degrees in Computer Science. He showed favorites at Enterprise/Personal Knowledge Management and Efficiency Enhancement stuff (like MindMap/GTD/FastReading), and luckily had made prototype/proposal on an Enterprise Blog webapp(June,2000) and a portable PKM app(May,2010), before the public appearance of Blog or EverNote (in Chinese market).
When he is not working at designing/prototyping/consulting, he enjoys Chinese traditional spiritual practice/zen as well as fantasy novels/strategy games/scribble.

First Prize	maq_rohit - CPDroid (CodeProject on Fly !!)
Prize pool	CodeProject Special Mug - CodeProject


Second Prize	Tiancheng Hu - How to make your Android projects more portable to Windows/MacOS (and vice versa)
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject


Second Prize	Michael Banzon - Developer? 5 Reasons To Make A Mobile App
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.
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