Best Mobile Article of April 2016

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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.

Pwnage Checker - An iOS App Built Using Swift

16 Jun 2016Vince Chan

Pwnage Checker is an iOS app that allows users to check whether an account has been compromised in a known data breach

Swift

iPhone

Mobile

iOS

iPad

Android Product Flavors and Configuration

14 Apr 2016Kaushal Dhruw

This article deals with Android product flavors in depth. Learn how to create multiple apks from the same source code. Create, customize, group, configure and filter product flavors.

Dependency Inversion in Java

7 Apr 2016Grzegorz @ tidyjava.com

Beginner guide to using the power of Dependency Inversion with examples in Java. Covers dependency injection, using abstractions and adapter pattern.

Xamarin Frame and Disappearing Outline

23 Apr 2016n.podbielski

This is another article in the mini series of Xamarin bugs and workarounds for them.

Android

.NET

Xamarin

Learn Android Dependency Injection with Dagger 2

20 Apr 2016Val Okafor

Learn Android Dependency injection with Dagger 2

Java

Android

Mobile

Middleware in Game Development

15 Apr 2016Android on Intel

Whether you are looking for an entire game engine to develop your idea into a game, or an efficient easy-to-use video codec to deploy full motion video, this list will guide you to the best middleware to use while developing your game for Intel® architecture.

Android

artificial-intelligence

game

Xamarin Frame and Style with Padding

23 Apr 2016n.podbielski

Xamarin Frame and Style with Padding

Generating Android App Version Code and Name Automatically

10 Apr 2016Kaushal Dhruw

Automate version name and code generation of your Android app using simple gradle tricks

Xamarin Style Based On Implicit Style

23 Apr 2016n.podbielski

If you are using Styles in Xamarin, you probably know how to define implicit styles. But how to inherit from them in other Styles? It is possible but require so work. Here is how you can do it.

.NET

Xamarin

Unity Optimization Guide for Intel x86 Platforms: Part 4

19 Apr 2016Android on Intel

Unnecessarily high resolution textures can easily become a bottleneck in mobile games and slower hardware

Android

Unity

Unity Optimization Guide for Intel x86 Platforms: Part 3

15 Apr 2016Android on Intel

Unity Optimization Guide for Intel x86 Platforms: Part 3

Unity Optimization Guide for Intel x86 Platforms: Part 2

15 Apr 2016Android on Intel

We will explore two main areas of optimizations in this guide: Scripting and Editor-based.

Android

Unity

product-showcase

Garbage Collection Workload for Android

15 Apr 2016Android on Intel

Garbage Collection Workload for Android

Android

product-showcase

JVM

Google VP9 Optimization

15 Apr 2016Android on Intel

Intel gathered a team of senior engineers with very strong performance optimization backgrounds early in 2015 to tune the VP9 video codec for greater performance on the Intel® Atom™ platform.

Android

product-showcase

video

Concurrent Power and Performance Analysis on Android

15 Apr 2016Android on Intel

With some of the new features available in Intel® VTune™ Amplifier 2016 Update 1 it is now relatively easy to obtain simultaneous capture of power and performance data on an unplugged Android device.

Android

product-showcase

GUI

Hasta la Vista Winter: Time to Spring into Adventure with your Significant Other

15 Apr 2016Android on Intel

Whether it’s a friendly battle, classic gaming strategy, or a fast-paced adventure, these apps will surely set the pace for a positive spring ahead.

Android

game

What Game Developers Need to Know about Intel® Atom™ x3 SoC Processor Series

15 Apr 2016Android on Intel

The discussion in this blog will focus on the 2 Atom x3 SoC SKUs which have already been launched: C3200RK and C3230RK.

Unity Optimization Guide for Intel x86 Platforms: Part 1

19 Apr 2016Android on Intel

In this guide, we will show a variety of tools to use as well as features in the Unity software that can help you enhance the performance of your Unity project.

Android

Unity

OpenCL

Add support for standard HTML5 Drag and Drop operations on Mobile Devices

11 Apr 2016Bernardo Castilho

Polyfill that enables HTML5 drag drop support on mobile (touch) devices.

Asynchronous Multicast Callbacks with Inter-Thread Messaging

25 Jan 2019David Lafreniere

Simplify passing data between threads using this multithreaded, portable C++ asynchronous callback framework

Outline Text - Part 2

13 Aug 2018Shao Voon Wong

Outline Text Part 2

Xamarin Android App Using SQLite and Custom ListView

6 Apr 2016Sharad Chandra Pyakurel

This tutorial will explain how to develop android app with Xamarin tool provided by visual studio. This post will walk you through creating a small android app related to AddressBook.

Changing the Default apk Name in Android

9 Apr 2016Kaushal Dhruw

Change that default apk name in generated->output directory of your Android application with a script gradle plugin.

Xamarin Studio (on Mac) Vs Visual Studio (Windows) for Xamarin Forms

8 Apr 2016S Ravi Kumar (TechieRathore)

Now than Xamarin Community is free for everyone, we don’t require a Xamarin professional license to build Xamarin applications using Visual Studio However some of [...]

Creating User Controls in Xamarin Forms

8 Apr 2016S Ravi Kumar (TechieRathore)

Creating User Controls in Xamarin Forms

Xamarin

How To Get Started With Android Development

20 May 2016Cindy Potvin

How to get started with Android development

Android

Mobile

Custom Countdown Timer in Java/Android

17 Apr 2016shash kant

A custom count down timer in java/android which allows to change the timer dynamically

Testing Xcode's auto-vectorization

23 Apr 2016ed welch

How well does XCode's auto vectorization work in practice?

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.

Bernardo Castilho

Software Developer

Brazil

Software Architect/Developer with several years experience creating and delivering software.

Full-stack Web development (including React, Firebase, TypeScript, HTML, CSS), Entity Framework, C#, MS SQL Server.

Passionate about new technologies and always keen to learn new things as well as improve on existing skills.

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 Lafreniere

United States

I've been a professional software engineer for over 20 years. When not writing code, I enjoy spending time with the family, camping and riding motorcycles around Southern California.

ed welch

Software Developer Astronautz

Spain

After working in the software industry for many years, I've started my own games company that specialises in strategy games for mobile platforms.

Grzegorz @ tidyjava.com

Poland

Java Engineer at zooplus AG. Passionate about new technologies and clean software architecture. Proud owner of 2 cats. Blogger at http://tidyjava.com

Kaushal Dhruw

Software Developer

India

Just another software developer trying to connect the dots.

n.podbielski

Software Developer

Poland

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

S Ravi Kumar (TechieRathore)

Architect

India

Hi There, I am an IT professional with 14 years of experience in architecting, designing and building IT solutions for complex business needs in form of mobile & web applications using Microsoft technologies. Currently working in an multinational company in India as Solutions Architect. The articles here are sourced from my blog : http://techierathore.com/

Shao Voon Wong

Software Developer (Senior)

Singapore

Shao Voon is from Singapore. His interest lies primarily in computer graphics, software optimization, concurrency, security, and Agile methodologies.

In recent years, he shifted focus to software safety research. His hobby is writing a free C++ DirectX photo slideshow application which can be viewed here.

Sharad Chandra Pyakurel

Software Developer (Senior) NLIC

Nepal

I am in profession of an enterprise software development. I have good knowledge in object oriented programming, windows programming, enterprise web application development , mobile app development, and database designing and programming.

shash kant

Architect HCL Technologies

India

Shashi is working as Lead Solutions Architect at Uptick Entertainment Inc. His main area of interest is designing and distributed systems. He has worked in domains like Telecom applications, Gaming and Banking.

Val Okafor

Software Developer (Senior) ValOkafor.com

United States

My name is Val Okafor, I am a Senior Software Engineer with specialization in Android Development. Learning and problem solving is my passion and I share my Android development knowledge through my blog ValOkafor.com.

My Android courses are the courses I wish I had when I started. I teach Android development in the context of a fully developed Android app. I believe that new Android concepts are better understood if they are presented in the context of creating an app from scratch to finish.

I focus on creating Productivity Android apps and besides Android development I have 7 years’ experience as System Administrator supporting Enterprise applications and 2 years’ experience as a Web Developer building websites using PHP and ASP.Net.

I have worked for corporations such as The Home Depot, American Council on Exercise, Legend3D and HD Supply, Inc. I have a bachelor's degree in Information Technology from National University San Diego, California and a master's degree in Software Engineering from Regis University Denver, Colorado.

I enjoy sharing my extensive work experience through my blog, social media.

Vince Chan

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

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

First Prize	Sharad Chandra Pyakurel - Xamarin Android App Using SQLite and Custom ListView
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject


Second Prize	Cindy Potvin - How To Get Started With Android Development
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject

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