Click here to Skip to main content
15,868,016 members
This competition has ended

Best Mobile Article of June 2014

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.

Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
6 Jun 2014Pete O'Hanlon
An introduction into how to be the coolest dev in your block, writing wearable code
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
27 Jun 2014Sergiy Korzh
How to make search by StartsWith criteria in Azure Tables
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
24 Jun 2014BC3Tech
OCD Windows Phone photogs, beware
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
19 Feb 2015Right Handed Monkey
This post explains how to use the WorxForUs Network framework to have an Android app that works robustly even in areas that have poor network connectivity.
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
13 Jun 2014Right Handed Monkey
This is a tutorial for accessing sqlite databases in Android in a thread safe manner. If you download the library code, please bookmark, comment on, or rate the article - it helps out tremendously.
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
4 Jun 2014B. Clay Shannon
Wherein the steps to add menu items, and respond to them being selected, is delineated
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
9 Jun 2014B. Clay Shannon
A handful of easy steps to enable using names instead of hex vals for colors
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
9 Jun 2014B. Clay Shannon
Simple code to send email which contains Exception text from a Catch Block
2 Jun 2014Android on Intel
This article provides a walk-through of Android application debugging tools and is designed to help developers new to the Android SDK and related tools get up to speed faster and resolve defects more effectively on Android x86 platform.
2 Jun 2014Android on Intel
In this document, we will focus on a few Android UI programming techniques that will help you to achieve the goal of a dynamic UI – use of the action bar, tab, and swipe views with dynamic application data to enhance the screen navigation, use of Android fragments to design multiple-pane and master-
2 Jun 2014Android on Intel
I want to tell you about a wonderful tool to automatically test the UI of Android* applications. The name of this tool is UiAutomator.
2 Jun 2014Android on Intel
This paper introduces data encryption APIs that are available through either Java* or OpenSSL*. Both solutions work on the Android* OS.
2 Jun 2014Android on Intel
In this article we will discuss how to configure Eclipse to take advantage of this feature, and walk through porting a sample NDK app.
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
3 Nov 2014Taiseer Joudeh
AngularJS Token Authentication using ASP.NET Web API 2, Owin, and Identity
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
23 Jun 2015Kel_
A modern real-time HTML5 chat implementation for the web and mobile worlds.
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
6 Jun 2014Azim Zahir
This is a simple demonstration of using SQLite database in Android.
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
22 Jun 2014Saad_Mahmood
Magical MVVM using power of Expression Blend
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
2 Jun 2014Madhur Kapoor
How to update app tile using background agent in Windows Phone 8 app
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
29 Jun 2014mengwangk
Using OpenCV4Android in Android App
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
10 Jun 2014Santosh Sharma (go2santosh)
Finally iOS developers get a new programming language as advanced as C# and Java
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
25 Jun 2014Rahis Shaikh
This article contains the project and code for web service API of SimpleDB
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
6 Jun 2014B. Clay Shannon
Generate Layout XML and Java that can be used in Droidio (Android Studio) with no coding whatsoever
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
27 Jun 2014Cybermaxs
Xamarin.Forms: One UI to Rule Them All?
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
19 Jun 2014Marco Bertschi
I look back at my half-year experience as Surface 2 RT User, showing off the Surface Hardware and my experiences I had using it
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
13 Jun 2014Michael Gledhill
How to add an fade-in message to your iPhone app in 5 minutes
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
9 Jun 2014PeteBarber
As a way to learn Swift I decided to have a play with Sprite Kit. One of the first things I did was to create a subclass of SKSpriteNode. This has a very handy initializer:init(imageNamed name: string) (in Swift)-(instanceType)initWithImageNamed:(NString*)name (in Objective-C)I then derived from thi
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
18 Jun 2014Cindy Potvin
This is the third post in my series about saving data in Android.
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
16 Jun 2014Right Handed Monkey
Obscured shared preferences for Android
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
3 Jun 2014Attila Kúr
Alternative Push Notifications (without GCM) targeting a single device
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
15 Jul 2014Dominic Burford
Building a Xamarin.Android / Visual Studio application using Nant
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
13 Jun 2014Member 10582597
New Runtime in Android operating system Kit Kat version (Android 4.4)
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
30 Jun 2014saramgsilva
Using Xamarin.Auth.OAuth2Authenticator with async/await

Current Participants

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

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

Software Developer (Senior)
Slovakia Slovakia
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Instructor / Trainer NIIT, India
India India
I am a trainer by profession. Currently I am working with iFuture Technologies(India) as a Senior Faculty. I enjoy programming as a hobby. During my career I have seen the growth and decline of many technologies, many of them being my favorites like Flash, WPF, Windows Mobile Development. Few of my current favorites are Android, Xamarin and Python, though I also like traditional and evergreen languages like PHP, C#, Visual Basic and Java.

Apart from computers, my favorite pastime is bicycling.
Founder Across Time & Space
United States United States
I am in the process of morphing from a software developer into a portrayer of Mark Twain. My monologue (or one-man play, entitled "The Adventures of Mark Twain: As Told By Himself" and set in 1896) features Twain giving an overview of his life up till then. The performance includes the relating of interesting experiences and humorous anecdotes from Twain's boyhood and youth, his time as a riverboat pilot, his wild and woolly adventures in the Territory of Nevada and California, and experiences as a writer and world traveler, including recollections of meetings with many of the famous and powerful of the 19th century - royalty, business magnates, fellow authors, as well as intimate glimpses into his home life (his parents, siblings, wife, and children).

Peripatetic and picaresque, I have lived in eight states; specifically, besides my native California (where I was born and where I now again reside) in chronological order: New York, Montana, Alaska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Idaho, and Missouri.

I am also a writer of both fiction (for which I use a nom de plume, "Blackbird Crow Raven", as a nod to my Native American heritage - I am "½ Cowboy, ½ Indian") and nonfiction, including a two-volume social and cultural history of the U.S. which covers important events from 1620-2006: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/blackbirdcraven
Software Developer (Senior)
United States 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
Canada 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.
Technical Lead
France France
Yet another proof of concept
Technical Lead Gold-Vision CRM
United Kingdom United Kingdom
I am a professional software engineer and technical architect with over twenty years commercial development experience with a strong focus on the design and development of web and mobile applications.

I have experience of architecting scalable, distributed, high volume web applications that are accessible from multiple devices due to their responsive web design, including architecting enterprise service-oriented solutions. I have also developed enterprise mobile applications using Xamarin and Telerik Platform.

I have extensive experience using .NET, ASP.NET, Windows and Web Services, WCF, SQL Server, LINQ and other Microsoft technologies. I am also familiar with HTML, Bootstrap, Javascript (inc. JQuery and Node.js), CSS, XML, JSON, Apache Cordova, KendoUI and many other web and mobile related technologies.

I am enthusiastic about Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Application Life-cycle Management having configured such environments using CruiseControl.NET, TeamCity and Team Foundation Services. I enjoy working in Agile and Test Driven Development (TDD) environments.

Outside of work I have two beautiful daughters. I am also an avid cyclist who enjoys reading, listening to music and travelling.
Chief Technology Officer Misakai Ltd.
Ireland Ireland
Roman Atachiants, Ph.D. is the architect behind emitter.io service, a real-time, low-latency publish/subscribe service for IoT, Gaming. He is a software engineer and scientist with extensive experience in different computer science domains, programming languages/principles/patterns & frameworks.

His main expertise consists of C# and .NET platform, game technologies, cloud, human-computer interaction, big data and artificial intelligence. He has an extensive programming knowledge and R&D expertise.


Technical Lead Infosys
India India
Madhur is Technology Lead by profession having around 9+ yrs of experience in IT industry working on Microsoft Technologies. Apart from Microsoft Technologies, he also likes to work on Mobile Development in Android.

His Technical expertise include .Net technologies including MVC, WebAPI, Azure.

Apart from coding, he like to play Xbox Games, strum guitar or read books.

My Blog : http://www.codingparadox.com
Switzerland Switzerland
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
India India
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Software Developer (Senior)
Malaysia Malaysia
A programmer for a long time, and still learning everyday.

A supporter for open source solutions, and have written quite a few open source software both in .NET and Java.

https://mengwangk.github.io/
Software Developer
Switzerland Switzerland
I'm a C# developer, working in finance in Zurich, Switzerland.

Author of the PartnerReSearch iPad app, which was a winner of a "Business Insurance Innovation Award" in 2013, and a TechAward2014 "Innovation of the year" award in 2014.

Objective-C is the 2nd hardest language I've ever learned, after German... Wink | ;-)
CEO
United Kingdom United Kingdom
A developer for over 30 years, I've been lucky enough to write articles and applications for Code Project as well as the Intel Ultimate Coder - Going Perceptual challenge. I live in the North East of England with 2 wonderful daughters and a wonderful wife.

I am not the Stig, but I do wish I had Lotus Tuned Suspension.
Team Leader
United Kingdom United Kingdom
My day job is mostly working in C++ with a bit of C#. I write a fair amount of command line based tools and really wish they could have a GUI front-end to them hence why I spend my spare time working with WPF.

I started a blog few years back but didn't do a lot with it. I've started describing some of the interesting programming things I come across on it. Please take a look.
Team Leader
United States United States
I am a senior software engineer and technical lead for a mid-sized technology firm. I have an extensive background in designing, developing, and supporting ASP.NET web-based solutions. I am currently extending my skill-set to the area of application identity management and access control.
Software Developer
India India
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Chief Technology Officer WorxForUs
United States United States
I am a programmer who posts rambling on about java, Android, PHP, or whatever I am motivated to type on my charcoal colored Kinesis Freestyle2 keyboard. Please send +1's, shared links, warm thoughts of encouragement, or emasculating flames of internet fury to my blog. Thanks for reading!

righthandedmonkey.com
User Interface Analyst Procesium
Pakistan Pakistan
Expressions Blend Guy from Pakistan. Trying to make .NET developer's life easier by use of BLEND during their development.
Architect
United States United States
Over 15 years of experience in in-depth programming, application architecture and design, solution deployments, complex technical troubleshooting, application performance analysis, code optimization, code analysis and reverse engineering, enterprise solution architecture, and enterprise wide technology strategy consulting.

Special interest in awareness of current market scenarios, industry trends, perspectives of industry leaders, effectively using technology to achieve business objectives, and communicate all this in easy to understand way to various stakeholders.
Software Developer (Senior)
Portugal Portugal
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.
Founder Korzh.com
Ukraine Ukraine
Software developer and entrepreneur.

Main projects:
* EasyQuery - ad-hoc data filtering UI for .NET applications;
* Localizer - localization tool kit for Delphi projects;
Architect App Dev Consultant
Jordan Jordan
Working for Microsoft Consultation Services as a Lead App Dev Consultant.

I have more than 15 years of experience in developing and managing different software solutions for the finance, transportation, logistics, and e-commerce sectors. I’ve been deeply involved in .NET development since early framework versions and currently, I work on different technologies on the ASP.NET stack with a deep passion for Web API, Distributed systems, Microservices, and Microsoft Azure.

Prior to joining Microsoft, I have been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for the years 2015 and 2016 in Visual Studio and Development Technologies, also I’m a regular speaker in local events and Dev user groups.

Contest Entries and Requirements

  1. 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.
  2. Entries must be an article, or blog entry.
  3. 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).
  4. Articles entries must follow the CodeProject submission guidelines.
  5. No cheating, lying, plagiarizing articles, chicanery, or kicking.
  6. 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.
  7. No author can be nominated twice in the same category.
  8. 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.
  9. In the event an author wins multiple competitions, and repeat, identical prizes, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
  10. Multiple votes from the same IP will be automatically disqualified.
  11. The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  12. Only those who live in jurisdictions in which this contest is legal may enter.
  13. Any breach of the rules and the prize will be awarded to the runner up.
  14. By entering the contest you agree to the rules, conditions of entry, and agree that your member alias and any submitted material can be used for promotional purposes by CodeProject.
  15. Entries shall be deemed to be submitted by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry unless clearly indicated otherwise. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization (e.g. business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address.

Eligibility

This competition is open to software development professionals & enthusiasts who are of the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence; however, residents of Quebec and of the following countries are ineligible to participate due to legal constraints: Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. Employees (or a member of their immediate family) of CodeProject or any of their affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising or promotional agencies are also ineligible to participate. Void where prohibited by law.

How to Enter

Entry is by the submission process described above. Please read the submission requirements before submitting your entry and ensure the article is tagged with at least one of the tags corresponding to that competition's category.

Lost, late, misdirected, or illegible entries will be disqualified. Any entry containing content that CodeProject deems objectionable for any reason will be disqualified. All decisions of CodeProject with respect to any aspect of the competition, including, without limitation, the eligibility of entries, are final and binding on all entrants in all matters as they relate to this competition. CodeProject reserves its right to modify the Rules.

CodeProject assumes no responsibility for lost, late, delayed, destroyed or misdirected mail, voice messages, email or any computer errors or malfunctions. No correspondence will be entered into with entrants.

CodeProject does not assume any responsibility for incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry information, technical malfunctions, human or technical error, lost, delayed or garbled data or transmissions, omission, interruption, deletion, defect or failures of any telephone or computer line or network, computer equipment, software or any combination thereof. Entry materials/data that have been tampered with or altered are void. If for any reason, in the opinion of CodeProject in its sole discretion, the competition is not capable of running as originally planned, or if the administration, security, fairness, integrity or the proper conduct of the competition is corrupted or adversely affected, including by reason of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond its control, CodeProject reserves its right to cancel, terminate, modify, amend, extend or suspend the competition including cancelling any method of entry, and select a winner from previously received eligible entries. CodeProject reserves its right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the competition or to be acting in violation of the Rules or otherwise in a disruptive manner. CodeProject reserves its right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent of the law for any attempts to deliberately damage the competition web site or to undermine the legitimate operation of this competition. CodeProject shall not be held responsible for any errors or negligence that may arise or occur in connection with the competition including any damage to an entrant's computer equipment, system, software or any combination thereof, as a result of their participation in this competition or from downloading any material from the competition website where applicable.

You must sign in to participate in this contest.
This contest has ended.
1 Jun - 30 Jun 2014