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Android Architecture Components
December 5th, 2017
Learning to use ViewModel and LiveData
Joseph Roskopf
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Android O - Autosizing TextViews
July 11th, 2017
Introduction Android O is coming. Right now in June, we’re in Release Preview 3 with an expected final release date of Q3. My guess for the dessert name is Oreo, but I haven’t been right on a single one so far. Android O feels more like a minor…
Joseph Roskopf
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Android GeofencingAPI
May 17th, 2017
Use the Android GeofencingAPI to create concentric geofences around a destination and get alerts as the device approaches.
James Dodson
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Nested weights are bad for performance
March 31st, 2017
You’ve almost certainly seen the lint error before “Nested weights are bad for performance.” How bad are they, though? My plan is to create a sample application with a nested view hierarchy using Linear Layouts and compare it to the same layout using…
Joseph Roskopf
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Exploring Swift Initializers
January 18th, 2016
A detailed look at the nuances of Swift initializers.
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iOS User Interface Development Approaches
September 10th, 2015
iOS User Interface Development Approaches
Torey Lomenda
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Using Android Product Flavors to build Full and Demo Version of the app.
March 31st, 2015
ProductFlavor is a very powerful feature available in the Android gradle plugin that allows us to manage different “flavors” of an application. This is useful when you want the same application but with different features per flavor (e.g. Full…
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Building a Kiosk Application in Android 5.0 (Lollipop)
November 4th, 2014
Building a Kiosk Application in Android 5.0 (Lollipop)
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Developing a native Android App using Groovy
September 4th, 2014
Simple Android app using Groovy
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Adding Custom Locations for iOS Simulator Testing
July 22nd, 2014
A quick tip showing how to add custom locations to your app for testing CLLocation services in the iOS simulator.
Steve McCoole
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Developing Private In-House Libraries with CocoaPods
June 25th, 2014
CocoaPods is the dependency manager we use at Object Partners to integrate open source iOS libraries. We also use it to manage private libraries for our iOS apps.
Torey Lomenda
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Minnesota CocoaHeads Sprite Kit Review
February 20th, 2014
A review a presentation about iOS 7s Sprite Kit API.
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Converting an iOS Project to use ARC (Automatic Reference Counting)
July 17th, 2013
My experience converting a project to an ARC-enabled one. This post shares my discoveries going through an Automatic Reference Counting project conversion.
Torey Lomenda
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Dismissing Modal and Current UIViewControllers in the Same Delegate
April 8th, 2013
How to dismiss both a modal and the current UIViewController in the same delegate, taking specific steps in order to avoid crashes.
Steve McCoole
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Layout Managers for iOS Views
March 15th, 2013
The purpose of this blog post is to demonstrate a different approach from the Springs and Struts or Auto Layout models for view layout in an iOS application.
Torey Lomenda
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Using Google Analytics iOS SDK in Shared Library Projects
January 3rd, 2013
iOS projects that utilize shared libraries for common components can be difficult to instrument with Google Analytics. This is one approach to make it easier.
Steve McCoole
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Start building out automated groovy mobile web application testing on your iPhone or iPad with Ge...
April 24th, 2012
Geb and Spock can be used to automate testing of mobile application on mobile devices, including the iPhone, iPad and Android devices.
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Leverage Spring Security to Handle Mobile Access to Your Grails App
March 28th, 2012
Add the ability to detect and redirect mobile devices to specific version of your grails app by using / configuring the spring security plugin that many grails apps already use.
Nick Larson
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Let network connectivity help guide concurrency in your iPhone and iPad applications
March 22nd, 2011
Using Apple’s Reachability project & the SystemConfiguration framework, developers can test network access & leverage that information to optimize performance of their apps.
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Lights, Camera, ActionSheet!: Updating iOS ShareKit’s Twitter service to provide photo and messag...
November 11th, 2010
ShareKit (<a href=http://getsharekit.com/>http://getsharekit.com</a>) is a popular, open-source, drop-in solution for implementing social sharing features in iOS applications. ShareKit does not yet have support for selecting/capturing a photo and sending it as part of a Twitter message. However, thanks to ShareKit’s open-source nature and framework for extensibility, I was able to add this functionality without much fanfare, and still leverage the recently added img.ly support to link to that image. An overview of an initial form of this implementation is outlined in this blog post.
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Communicating with external devices from the iPhone and iPad
September 14th, 2010
Using the External Accessories Framework, added in iOS 3.0, iPad and iPhone developers can build apps that communicate with external devices.
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