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Implementing Push Notifications in Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) Using Firebase
Last updated: Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2019 - January/February
Using Firebase Cloud Messaging, Wei-Meng shows you how to enable PWA push notifications as if they were native code, and how to host your REST API as a serverless app.
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Developer Update: iOS 11 and iPhone X
Last updated: Friday, May 7, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - January/February
In Apple’s new releases, there are a ton of new features to play with—even the AppStore has changed. Jason shows you how all of this impacts your development chores.
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Lower the Barriers to Entry for Mobile Development with React Native
Last updated: Monday, May 17, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2017 - July/August
These days, you can’t build your apps for only one platform, which could mean multiple dev teams and keeping track of parallel projects. Jason shows us how to use React Native to get the best mobile development without breaking the bank or going crazy.
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Push Notifications Made Easy with One Signal
Last updated: Monday, June 7, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - September/October
With all the new things on the market, it’s hard to keep a user’s attention where it belongs: on your app. Jason explores the push-notification aspects of One Signal to help you keep your app in the forefront.
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Support Your Application Post-Launch Intelligently Using Intercom.io
Last updated: Friday, June 11, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - July/August
Jason shows us how to keep the development team focused on developing while creating built-in post-launch features that keep your users happy too. It’s not magic, it’s Intercom.io.
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Implementing Lean Controllers in iOS Applications
Last updated: Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - May/June
Have you been struggling with sluggish apps? Perhaps all that’s needed is a little tightening of the code. Mohammad makes your apps lean and mean again with a simple ToDo example.
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Integrating YouTube into Your iOS Applications
Last updated: Monday, June 28, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - January/February
You’ve made your website pretty spiffy, but the one thing it’s missing is the one thing that makes social media platforms so hard to compete with. Add sound and video to your content by making it YouTube-capable. Jason shows you how!
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Introduction to Swift 2.0
Last updated: Monday, June 28, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2016 - January/February
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard about the new Swift language that’s taken the iOS/OSX community by storm. Learn some of Swift’s basic features as Mohammad explores what’s new in this second release.
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All Aboard: Maximize Mobile Engagement with Interactive Onboarding
Last updated: Thursday, July 1, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2015 - September/October
You can sell your app with creative marketing, but you’ve got to do something more to get customers to not only open your app but use it, too. Jason takes a look at onboarding techniques.
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More about Xamarin Pages
Last updated: Thursday, July 1, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2015 - September/October
Walt continues his series of articles on Xamarin, this time, exploring the nature of pages. You’ll learn what a page is, how to navigate among them, how to create sub-pages, and strategies for loading data onto pages.
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Introduction to Swift
Last updated: Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - November/December
Whether you’re familiar with programming in Objective-C or not, you’ll learn something interesting as Mohammad takes a look at the new high-level Swift programming language for the iOS framework.
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The Parse Revolution: Why Complex Infrastructure for App Storage is a Thing of the Past
Last updated: Friday, September 3, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - September/October
What if, as a developer, you could focus all of your efforts on building a robust front-end experience and not have to worry about constructing a complex backend infrastructure? Jason shows us how to do just that with Parse.
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Xamarin 3.0: Better Cross-Platform Mobile Development with C#
Last updated: Friday, September 3, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - September/October
Xamarin has a new version of their Cross-Platform Mobile Development tool out, and Jason takes you on a tour of all the great new features.
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Understanding and Using iBeacons
Last updated: Thursday, December 23, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - May/June
Want a great way to tell prospective customers or conference attendees that you’re open for business? Wei-Meng explains how iBeacons work, tells you how to build one, and shows you many clever uses for iOS and Android mobile devices.
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Cross-Platform Localization for Mobile Apps
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - January/February
Chris shows us how to make sure that your app is not only cross-platform, but international and global as well.
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Developing Cross-Platform Mobile Apps using Xamarin
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - January/February
Wei-Meng gives us a step-by-step guide to making seamless cross-platform mobile apps with Xamarin.
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New iOS 7 APIs for the C# Developer
Last updated: Monday, January 3, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - January/February
You can use Xamarin to directly access native iOS APIs and still take advantage of what you know about C# and the .NET Framework. Jason shows us just how easy it is.
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Building a CODE Framework Service and Consuming It on an iPhone Application
Last updated: Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Published in: VFP Conversion Papers, CODE Magazine: 2013 - May/June
In this article, you will create a CODE Framework RESTful service and an iPhone application from scratch. For the client side, you will utilize XCode (yes, you’ll need a Mac!), which uses Objective-C as the primary language. This article won’t teach you the language; you need to know the basics of Objective-C. Even if you don’t know anything about it but want to code right away, read the article “Building a Twitter Search Client on iOS,” by Ben Scherman, available for all CODE readers in the Xiine application for Windows, Android, and iPhone. For the database, you’ll use any instance of SQL Server 2008. The service will be written in C#, using the latest version of CODE Framework, available on http://codeframework.codeplex.com, where you will find not only the download link, but also a lot of useful information.
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WPF Meets the iPhone
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - March/April
The iPhone is one of the most compelling and exciting user interfaces to appear on any consumer electronic device, with many innovations that make it a pleasure to use. How can you deliver a similar experience with your .NET applications?This article demonstrates how you can implement these features in your .NET applications in a step-by-step format as you recreate the iPhone interface using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) technology with both Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft Expression Blend.
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Implementing Gestures and Touches in iOS 7
Last updated: Friday, February 22, 2019
Published in: Book Excerpts, Newsletters
This chapter introduces direct manipulation interfaces that go far beyond prebuilt controls. By the time you finish reading this chapter, you'll have read about many different ways you can implement gesture control in your own applications.
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Learning iOS Development Chapter 1: Hello, iOS SDK
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: Book Excerpts, Newsletters
Learning iOS Developmentis the perfect first book for every new iOS 7 developer. It delivers a complete foundation for iOS development, including an introduction to the Objective-C language, Xcode development tools, best-practice user interface development, and best practices for all aspects of app development and deployment. Throughout Learning iOS Development, you explore the iOS development process as you create and expand a handy car valet app. The hands-on projects enable you to create meaningful code as soon as possible, building confidence and mastery. The annotated code listings work with all the latest iOS technology, so you'll be ready to jump into this exciting development field. With Learning iOS Development, it's easy to learn at your own pace, on your own--or to deepen the knowledge you may be gaining in a classroom or workplace.
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Sams Teach Yourself: iPhone Application Development in 24 Hours, 2nd Edition HOUR 21 - Building Background-Aware Applications
Last updated: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Published in: Book Excerpts
“The ability to run multiple applications in the background” mocks the Verizon commercial. “Why can’t a modern operating system run multiple programs at once?” question the discussion groups. As a developer and a fan of the iPhone, I’ve found these threads amusing in their naivete' and somewhat confusing. The iPhone has always run multiple applications simultaneously in the background, but they were limited to Apple’s applications. This restriction has been to preserve the user experience of the device as a phone. Rather than an “anything goes” approach, Apple has taken steps to ensure that the phone remains responsive at all times.