iOS
Mobile phones have become a ubiquitous part of modern life. It is estimated that there are over five billion cell phones currently in use, covering a large portion of the world’s population.... Read More
Android applications face a number of challenges that other mobile platforms may not have to deal with (yet). Android is available on a wide variety of hardware, each having a different screen size... Read More
When I joined the team I have been working with recently, they were trying to create a graph using Core Plot, a popular third party library. It didn’t go well though, there were two big problems.... Read More
BuildMobile is looking for talented authors to join it’s team. We’ve got a large demand for a wide range of topics and we simply can’t keep up! If you think you can write on these any of these... Read More
Nick Randolph looks at how you can use developer and designer tools to assist in porting your application from iOS to Windows Phone, and why you may want to.Read More
I’ve noticed there’s quite a bit of misunderstanding among .NET developers as to what Ruby or Rails are, and how those compare to what they came to know and love in .NET. I know I didn’t... Read More
In part one of this mini series, we tackled the question of implementing a slider when you want to create a range of values, not just one. If you haven’t read part one, you’ll be feeling a... Read More
“ I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role. I have made some of the best friends of my... Read More
One of the commonly used iOS controls is the slider control. It’s a great, all purpose slider, that allows you to quickly swipe your finger along the screen to set a value. Things get a little... Read More
Loading screens are a necessity of digital life. It’s important to provide a user with feedback when you start a process for which your application has to wait for a response. If a user presses a... Read More
I’m fascinated by ciphers. There is a great book on code breaking by Simon Singh called The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography . The book is full of... Read More
In this series, we’ve been creating an application called Orny . The application will (hypothetically) be used by Ornithologists to record sightings of birds, where those sightings occurred, and... Read More
Part of the appeal of mobile services is that they are relevant to where you are right now. Most phones support GPS and a connection to the network. And when you combine those you get a convenient... Read More
This is part three of an ongoing series. You may wish to read or review the previous sections on iOS Development Basics and iOS Apps with Tasty UI . As the series goes on, we’re going to develop... Read More
