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Access REST Resources Secured By UAG from Mobile Device

by Daron Cox

If you're trying to integrate with UAG from a mobile device, this tip is for you!

ASP.NET C# Tutorial - Development with Nido Framework for Dummies

by Nirosh

This tutorial is designed for .NET programmers who need to understand ‘Nido’ framework and its application.

2d Textures in cocos2d-x V3

by _Maxxx_

Well it wasn’t as easy as I thought it was going to be, but I managed to get a version of my scrolling texture program working under cocos2d-x V3 Beta 2. I set up cocos2d-x v3 as in my previous … Continue reading →

A Better Way to Share Image Assets in Xamarin Forms

by Daniel Vaughan

Learn how to combine T4 and a custom markup extension to share and consume image files between projects.

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Access REST Resources Secured By UAG from Mobile Device

by Daron Cox

If you're trying to integrate with UAG from a mobile device, this tip is for you!

ASP.NET C# Tutorial - Development with Nido Framework for Dummies

by Nirosh

This tutorial is designed for .NET programmers who need to understand ‘Nido’ framework and its application.

2d Textures in cocos2d-x V3

by _Maxxx_

A Better Way to Share Image Assets in Xamarin Forms

by Daniel Vaughan

Learn how to combine T4 and a custom markup extension to share and consume image files between projects.

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ASP.NET C# Tutorial - Development with Nido Framework for Dummies

by Nirosh

This tutorial is designed for .NET programmers who need to understand ‘Nido’ framework and its application.

2d Textures in cocos2d-x V3

by _Maxxx_

A Better Way to Share Image Assets in Xamarin Forms

by Daniel Vaughan

Learn how to combine T4 and a custom markup extension to share and consume image files between projects.

A Class for Selecting a Profile Image

by Will J Miller

Using UIImagePickerController to replicate the profile selection features found in the contacts app requires solving some vexing problems. This article presents one approach for a class that replicates the functionality using the UIImagePickerController.

A View Class for Cropping Images

by Will J Miller

This article describes the implementation of a custom class called MMSCropImageView. The class gives the feature of drawing and moving a rectangle over an image to identify the crop region and return it in an UIImage. It explains the considerations and solutions for cropping a bitmap.

Accessing Backed Up iPhone SMS Messages

by Dominick Marciano

When iPhone SMS messages are backed up to your computer using iTunes, the messages are stored in a SQLite database. This article will show the layout of this database file and how to access all saved message information.

Adding iAds to an App

by Manning

A chapter excerpt from iOS in Practice

ADO.NET Asynchronous SQL Calls

by gbd77rc

How to use asynchronous calls to SQL to receive progress information

All Hail the Old and the New – The MonoGame Content Builder Tool

by Simon Jackson

All Hail the Old and the New – The MonoGame Content Builder Tool

AMF: Asp.net Mobile Framework

by ymartel

Asp.net framework for making web application for most-used tablet and smartphone web browsers based on JQuery mobile

An Overview of Core Data on iOS Devices

by Addison-Wesley

A chapter excerpt for Core Data for iOS: Developing Data-Driven Applications for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch

Android + iOS Torch sample

by Cloud Hsu

Samples for present Android and iOS to control torch.

Angular in a Cordova

by Siddharth Chandra

How to use Angular in a Cordova Environment and its impact

Application’s Life Cycle in iOS4

by Adi Saxena

This article explains the Life cycle of a typical iOS application and also talks about the various states of the application.

Audio streaming and caching in iOS using AVAssetResourceLoader and AVPlayer

by leshkoapps

How you can use AVAssetResourceLoader and AVPlayer in your apps

Audiobook Player for iPhone

by brochpirate

An iPhone media player designed specifically for listening to audiobooks

Augmented Reality Apps of ARKit (A Practical Guide)

by Perfectial

A practical guide to business applications for augmented reality

Beginning a Navigation-Based App

by mattz32

A simple tutorial on how to create a navigation-based application and transitioning between views.

Beginning Hybrid Mobile App Development with Corona SDK - Display Objects

by Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Display objects and get user input with Corona SDK and Lua

Beyond Mobile Gestures

by Yildirim Kocdag

What is next for Mobile Gestures? Past and Future of Mobile Gestures

Build Dynamics CRM Mobile Apps that Work on WM, TabletPC, iPhone or iPad

by Resco Developer Tools

No doubt, Microsoft Dynamics CRM is one of the world's most popular CRM systems. It's unique because of its customization capabilities allowing enterprises to adjust it to their specific needs whether their main focus is selling goods, providing services, or something completely different.

Build Flappy Bird with jQuery and 100 lines of Javascript

by gstolarov

Build Flappy Bird with jQuery and 100 lines of Javascript

Building a Puzzle Game with Xamarin Forms

by Daniel Vaughan

A fun Xamarin Forms implementation of the game Sokoban, demonstrating how to port a UWP puzzle game to both Android and iOS while sharing nearly all code across platforms.

Building an iPhone App using jQuery Mobile

by Stuart Wheelwright

Step-by-step explanation of building a Task Timer app using web technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery Mobile.

Building Localizable Cross-Platform Apps with Xamarin Forms and Calcium

by Daniel Vaughan

Leverage existing .resx files to localize Windows Phone, Android, and iOS apps in Xamarin.Forms.

Building Simple Reader Application for iPhone based on UIWebView

by deluizon

Learning the basic of developing application on iPhone by developing simple reader app

C++ on the iPhone: Test Driven Development

by Craig Giles

I have been learning quite a few development strategies as of late, and the newest one that I’ve taken a peek into is Test Driven Development (TDD), or Unit Testing.

Candidate Screening with a Programming Assignment

by Will J Miller

Programming tests are frequently used to screen job applicants. This article describes one problem given by a large modern technology company and its solution in swift.

Collapsable Table View for iOS

by Bernhard Häussermann

A set of source files that extends the UITableView so that it has sections that can be collapsed and expanded.

Consuming a RESTful Service (bit.ly) in an iPhone Application

by User 1556233

How to consume a RESTful Service (bit.ly) in an iPhone application

CoreData Persistence Framework

by Jozef Bozek

Ligth object wrapper for iOS CoreData.

Creating a Cross-Platform Application Bar for Xamarin Forms with Calcium

by Daniel Vaughan

Using Xamarin Forms platform specific rendering to create a cross-platform application bar.

Custom UISlider

by 0209Neha

This article describes the creation of a custom UISlider, that has some additional functionality and features to the default slider.

D3.js crash course - Part2

by Espen Harlinn

D3.js meets jQuery Mobile, WCF & ASP.Net

Debugging SSL on Both iOS Devices and Simulators with Man-in-the-middle Proxies

by Tony_Fu

This article describes how to set up a debugging environment for SSL web services from iOS clients to a server using man-in-the-middle proxies.

Developing an App that Sends SMS Messages

by Michael Haephrati

How great could it be to be able to send SMS messages from your IPhone using the Internet connection

Developing Hybrid Applications for the iPhone: Using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to Build Dynamic Apps for the iPhone

by Addison-Wesley

It is also possible to write debug messages to the Xcode console when you write your application. Accessing these capabilities is not limited to Objective-C applications. Your hybrid applications can do these things from within JavaScript.

Development of iPhone client application for SharePoint 2013

by Komin Dmitry

How to write iPhone application to authenticate to SharePoint and read the contents of a list provided by the SharePoint REST API.

DevExpress – When Only The Best Will Do

by Dirk_Strauss

DevExpress – December is a month of giving and if you are looking to fill the gift stocking of that special developer someone, have a look at the new release of DevExpress. I have been lucky enough to explore the product for the past while. As usual, DevExpress come out tops with some awesome new fe

Emoji and web application

by Tharaka MTR

Emoji; is the Japanese term for the ideograms or smileys used mostly in Japanese electronic messages and webpages.

ESpeakEngine - Objective-C speech synthesizer

by Jozef Bozek

ESpeakEngine - Objective-C speech synthesizer

EventKit Framework for iPhone Calendar

by iphonish

How to add event to iPhone Native calendar and show alert?

Excerpt from Designing the iPhone User Experience: A User-Centered Approach to Sketching and Prototyping iPhone Apps

by Addison-Wesley

This chapter looks at various iPhone prototyping approaches—paper, software, and video—and suggests how to choose the best approach for your app.

Excerpt from Sams Teach Yourself iPad Application Development in 24 Hours

by Sams Publishing

An chapter excerpt designed to help you prepared for iPad development.

Extendable TCP Client/Server Application Framework

by Michael Janulaitis

Provides an introduction to the open source client/server DotNetOpenServer SDK project for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows, Mac and Java Platforms

FliteEngine - Objective-C speech synthesizer

by Jozef Bozek

FliteEngine - An Objective-C speech synthesizer.

Flutter Getting Started: Tutorial 1 Basics

by ThatsAlok

In this tutorial, I will provide step by step to build your first Flutter App

FreeType on OpenGL ES (iPhone)

by ed welch

Faster, smarter and better looking fonts rendered with OpenGL ES

From C++ to Objective-C: A quick guide for practical programmers

by Michael Chourdakis

Tutorial for Objective-C beginners

Generate Icon Sets for Android and iOS in Native Mobile App Development

by Zijian

Use PowerShell scripts to generate icons of native mobile apps

Getting Started with iPhone and iOS Development

by Joel Ivory Johnson

This is a first in a series of articles to get some one up and running with iPhone development. This first article is to help you identify what hardware you need for development, and gives a quick introduction to Objective-C.

Gynoid: Framework for Mobile Development

by Vince Ricci

Gynoid is a wrapper around mobile phone APIs (WinCE, symbian, iPhone)

Hello B4J: Creating the Bible.Show WebApp with ABMaterial

by Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Create Google Material based HTML5 apps using B4J ABMaterial

'Hello World, Goodbye .XIB!' -- A .XIB'less Hello World Application

by Ohmu

An article that creates a simple iPhone application that displays a graphic then cuts out the .XIB, and completes this just from the code.

Home Automation with Microsoft Kinect Point Cloud and Speech Recognition

by Dan Thyer

Use a Microsoft Kinect to control the home automation in the house. Lights can be turned on an off from speech recognition or from pointing at them and waving your other hand one way to turn on and the other way to turn off.

Hour 21: Building Background-Aware Applications

by Sams Publishing

In this chapter excerpt from Sams Teach Yourself iPhone Application Development in 24 Hours we'll look at: How iOS 4 supports background tasks, what types of background tasks are supported, how to disable backgrounding, how to suspend applications, and how to execute code in the background.

How Do I Perform UI Automation Testing in iOS 4

by Adi Saxena

Beginner level guide (step by step) on UI Automation Testing in iOS 4

How Scribblify Delivers a Cross-Platform GUI with Node.js* and the Chromium* Embedded Framework

by Edward J Correia

The Scribblify drawing app with its 10-point touch capability and Google Chrome*-based GUI took the grand prize in the Intel® App Innovation Contest 2013 using resources from the Intel® Developer Zone.

How to access SQL database from an iPhone app Via RESTful WCF service hosted on IIS 7.5

by Samer M. Abdallah

Access SQL database from iPhone Via WCF and JSON hosted on IIS 7.5

How to Add Live Activity to Your Existing Project - Part I

by Dearich

First part of the ultimate guide on how to add a Live Activity feature to your project

How to avoid memory leaks in iPhone applications

by r_adem

Some tips to avoid leaking memory in your iPhone apps.

How to Build iPhone & Android Mobile Apps with Angular 14, Ionic Capacitor 3, SwipeClouds & WebRTC

by Bill SerGio, The Infomercial King

XCODE & Android Studio mobile app projects built using Ionic's Capacitor with an Angular 14 UI. Includes WebRTC for video conferencing, and SwipeClouds for Playing Millions of HD Movies & Videos and A Custom Capacitor Plugin for Scraping User Data for Targeted Delivery of video ads to mobile phones.

How To Deploy Your Mobile App Backend In Google Compute Engine (GCE)

by k11dave

Integrating Google Compute Engine for your mobile app backend data is the best thing for success of your mobile app.

How to Design Dynamically Appearing Rows in A UITableView

by Will J Miller

Describes a design approach for implementing dynamic rows in a UITableView

How to do some magic with indexedDB

by David Fahlander

Discover the hidden features of indexedDB!

How to Scroll a UITableView when Presenting a Form

by Will J Miller

This article details the necessary UITableViewDelegate methods required to fully support a form presented in a UITableView.

How to Use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in C++ with gSOAP

by Chris Moutsos

How to connect to Amazon S3 with gSOAP to store and retrieve data

How to Write Your Own Siri Application (Mobile Assistant Application)

by Yildirim Kocdag

This article helps you to understand how you can write your own Siri application.

Hybrid Cross-Platform Applications: Approach to Using Cocos2d-x on Top of Native iOS and Android Components

by YevheniyK

The article describes a general approach to using Cocos2d-x on top of native components and relevant coding specifics for Cocos2d-x, iOS and Android.

iCPVanity: CP Vanity for iOS 7

by Serge Desmedt

A port of CP Vanity to iOS

Installing MoSync for Android (and other mobile platforms)

by K Stock

Article #2: How to install the multi-mobile-platform MoSync development environment

Integrate App Payments Quickly and Seamlessly with PayPal’s Mobile Libraries

by Chris_Hall

This article shows you how easy it is to process and track mobile payments with PayPal.

Interoperation Issues in Mixed C/C++/Objective-C Development, Part 1

by Anna Koneva

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

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

by Anna Koneva

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

Interoperation Issues in Mixed C/C++/Objective-C Development, Part 3

by Anna Koneva

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

Introducing Calcium for Xamarin.Forms

by Daniel Vaughan

Create best-in-breed cross-platform MVVM apps using Calcium for Xamarin.Forms.

Introduction to iOS Graphics APIs: Part 1

by Joel Ivory Johnson

The first part of an introduction to the iOS graphics APIs. In this article, I look at some of the Quartz 2D / Core Graphics APIs.

iOS 10 User Notification features

by Remya R M

Quick look on iOS 10 user notification features

iOS 4 in Action - Fetching Events with Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)

by Manning

A chapter excerpt from iOS 4 in Action- Fetching events with Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)

iOS 4 in Action - Using Location Monitoring Service

by Manning

A Chapter excerpt from iOS 4 in Action

iOS 7’s SpriteKit is Quietly Changing the Future of Mobile Gaming — Here’s How to Develop Games On It

by Kii

In this article I’m going to take a close look at the SpriteKit code, show how it was used in a recent game, and finally, end with a mini-tutorial for building a SpriteKit game from scratch.

iOS OCR and Barcode with LEADTOOLS 18

by LEADTOOLS Support

iOS OCR and Barcode with LEADTOOLS 18.

iPhone ComboBox

by Dor Alon

iPhone Safari like ComboBox

IPhone Development Basics (Part 2)

by Rashid Malik Awan

Exploring the Objective-C File Structure

iPhone Gaming Framework: Amendment

by Craig Giles

There are a few things missing from the tutorials. This is the amendment, going to patch up the final few things to get you back on track!

iPhone Gaming Framework: Stage 1 Tutorial

by Craig Giles

The goal for this tutorial is to get a basic screen management system up and running, ready to start writing game code.

iPhone Gaming Framework: Stage 2 Tutorial

by Craig Giles

An input manager to help you with input management

iPhone SharePoint Apps Shootout

by Stephen Huen

A shootout review of iPhone apps to access SharePoint sites

Irregularly Shaped Buttons

by Ohmu

Irregularly Shaped Buttons

JSON version 4 to C# Objects and Back -- Part 1

by Don Fizachi

A set of C# classes to create and manipulate JSON Schema and Instances.

JSON version 4 to C# Objects and Back -- Part 2

by Don Fizachi

A set of C# classes to create and manipulate JSON Schema and Instances.

Low-level text rendering

by Ohmu

Low-level text rendering in iPhone.

Making a simple Twitter app using iOS 5, Xcode 4.2, and storyboards

by lassebunk

How to use iOS 5, Xcode 4.2, and storyboards to create a simple Twitter app that will list tweets and show details about each tweet.

monoCPVanity: CP Vanity with Xamarin

by Serge Desmedt

3 times CP Vantiy from a single codebase (hopefully)

MvvmCross TipCalc - Step 3: Creating an iOS UI

by slodge

Step 3 in the TipCalc tutorial for MvvmCross v3 - Hot Tuna

Non-Standard Way to Get Inaccessible Data from iOS

by Kirill Ermakov

Interesting ways to pick up sensitive information in iOS.

OpenGL ES: Texture2D and the Power of Two

by Craig Giles

How to adjust your Texture2D object to allow any sized textures in your OpenGL ES project.

Oracle ADF Mobile Tutorial

by FaizanMubasher

This article helps developer to start working with new mobile application development framework Oracle ADF Mobile.

Panorama 360 iPod Touch & iPhone

by Javier Baez

Panorama viewer library for iPhone & iPod touch

Parsing XML on the iPhone

by Craig Giles

Since I am developing a game engine for the iPhone that I would like to re-use, I have chosen to host all game data in the form of XML files

Password Safe Reader for Windows Mobile

by Svante Seleborg, Alphons van der Heijden, Dave Shaw, katakana2

A Windows Mobile C# reader for the popular Password Safe archive files.

Preparing the ground for iPhone development

by Ohmu

An article for developers new to Apple technologies.

Property Finder - a Cross-Platform HTML5 Mobile App

by Colin Eberhardt

This article describes the development of a cross-platform HTML5 application for Windows Phone and iPhone.

Push Notification For Windows, iOS & Android - Quick, Easy and Flexible

by Sunasara Imdadhusen

FlexiPush (Push Notification) is a Quick, Easy and Flexible way to send a Push Notifications to the different platforms like Android, iOS and Windows instantly with your custom Payload as well

Pwnage Checker - An iOS App Built Using Swift

by Vince Chan

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

Real-time SPC Web Application for iPad/Android tablet using jQuery/AJAX/AJAX enabled WCF Service

by Gokuldas

Real time SPC is a Web Application for iPad and Androind using HTML5 and jQuery AJAX.

Right Before Your Eyes

by dgDavidGreene

Make your page come alive with Knockout.js, Bootstrap, and Google Charts.

ScratchPadView for iOS using GLKit

by Amory Wong

A GLKView class that can be dropped into your project.

Snake game for tablets and Smartphones

by Erich Duda

This article shows how to create Snake game using Moscrif SDK.

Sorting it out: How to sort a TableView

by KarstenK

Some way to sort in a table.

Swift: Getting the Levels of Water in São Paulo

by Rodrigo De Presbiteris (Presba)

Creating a iOS app with swift to show the water levels of the main reservoir system in Brazil.

Switch between views Mobile Safari-style

by Tom The Cat

A reusable library (specifically, an UIViewController subclass) to implement Mobile Safari page/tab switching interface in your own app. Now supports orientation changes!

TaskTracker Offline Web Application for Mobile using HTML5/jQuery/KnockoutJS

by Gokuldas

Task Tracker is an offline web application developed using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.

Testing Xcode's auto-vectorization

by ed welch

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

Texture Atlas Maker

by ed welch

A utility to create texture atlases for 2D OpenGL games

Textures and Shaders in Metal on iOS

by KarstenK

How to start in Metal on iOS.

Textures and Shaders in OpenGL on iOS

by KarstenK

How to start up with OpenGL on iOS.

Tip: iOS Look in Windows Mobile

by Resco Developer Tools

An overview of the new features of MobileForms Toolkit

Track your iPhone application stats using Google Analytics

by SureshAddaguduru

How to track your iPhone application stats using Google Analytics.

UNITY 3D – Game Programming – Part 10

by Vahe Karamian

The tenth article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.

UNITY 3D – Game Programming – Part 2

by Vahe Karamian

The second article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.

UNITY 3D – Game Programming – Part 3

by Vahe Karamian

The third article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.

UNITY 3D – Game Programming – Part 4

by Vahe Karamian

The fourth article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.

UNITY 3D – Game Programming – Part 5

by Vahe Karamian

The fifth article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.

UNITY 3D – Game Programming – Part 6

by Vahe Karamian

The sixth article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.

UNITY 3D – Game Programming – Part 7

by Vahe Karamian

The seventh article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.

UNITY 3D – Game Programming – Part 8

by Vahe Karamian

The eighth article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.

UNITY 3D – Game Programming – Part 9

by Vahe Karamian

The ninth article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.

UNITY 3D - Game Programming Introduction

by Vahe Karamian

The first article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.

UNITY 3D – NETWORK GAME PROGRAMMING

by Vahe Karamian

This article will cover the basics of network programming using Network View in Unity 3D. We will be creating an Authoritative Server based networking environment showcasing the basics functions of network programming using Unity 3D and C#.

Updating 1980’s Technology with the Help of 2017’s Imaging Tools

by Jeffrey T. Fritz

The simple API of the LEADTOOLS OCR libraries made it easy for me to add their technology into this hobby project of mine.

Using jQuery Mobile with MVC and Netduino for Home Automation

by Dan Thyer

This article is great for anybody learning jQuery Mobile or building mobile applications with MVC3. I built a remote control for my phone to control a squirt gun for my pool, open my garage door, water the garden and control for my gas fireplace using jQuery Mobile with MVC and a Netduino

Using Markdown for Effective Logging

by Stuart Wheelwright

An introduction to MarkdownLog - an open source .NET library designed to produce Markdown formatted log files

Using MVVM to create Tabbed Interfaces with Calcium for Xamarin Forms

by Daniel Vaughan

Create a Xamarin Forms tabbed page or carousel page by binding to a collection of ViewModels; extending beyond the current capabilities of Xamarin Forms.

Virtualizing Data with XAML

by Andrew Whiddett

Creating a scaleable ObservableCollection that supports pagination, async and (for the first time) FULL write operations

Visual Studio debug console for iPhone

by Jaime Olivares

An architectural proposal to integrate mobile and .Net applications

Windows Mobile, iPhone, Android - Marketplace Comparison

by lepipele

Detailed comparison between Windows Mobile Marketplace, Apple's iPhone AppStore and Android Market from developer point of view.

Windows Phone 7 for iPhone Developers - Chapter Excerpt: Object-Oriented Programming

by Addison-Wesley

This chapter will cover some of the core concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP) and how they apply to both iPhone and Windows Phone 7 programming