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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.

A Complete Anti Theft Homemade Surveillance System

by Miguel Diaz Kusztrich

Be notified in your mobile phone of intruders in your home, and take photos of them

Window Tabs (WndTabs) Add-In for DevStudio

by Oz Solomon

Window and File Management add-in for Visual C++

A Journey to the World of Android Wearable

by ridoy

A brief explanation of application development for Android Wear, helpful for every beginner and intermediate android developer.

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Build a Simple Android Web App in WebView with Support of Download/Upload Feature

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Convert Website into Android Web App with WebView

iOS Cocoa Layout - The Difference between Nib and Xib

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On easy example shown how to implement UIKit and SwiftUI TableView auto resizable cells and explained difference between Nib and Xib, how to load nib file and what exactly owner parameter of the load nib file method.

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

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

Azure IoT Central Tester

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Design and implementation of small tool, tester for Azure IoT Central

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Real-Time Web App Made Simple with MVVM Pattern over SignalR - Part 1

15 Jul 2017 by dsuryd

SignalR is great for building real-time web functionality. MVVM is great for developing your front-end. What if they can be used together? This tip will show how to do just that, using as example a simple project to do live chart on a web browser.

How to integrate Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin in Android Apps

12 Sep 2012 by 3PillarLabs

This article help users to integrate Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, MySpace functionality easily in Android apps.

Creating a WCF Service with JSON Data and Using it on iOS

31 Mar 2013 by Melih Mucuk

Creating a WCF Service with JSON data for use on iOS

How to Add an AsyncTask to an Android Activity

16 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Step-by-step instructions for adding an Async Task to an Android Activity

How to add external library file in Android Studio

17 Jun 2013 by josh-jw

This article will give you a good idea about adding external jar files in Android Studio.

Android App To Browse A Website

18 Apr 2014 by Garvit Arya

It is a personalized web Browser that can open a certain website directly.

Incremental Search on the Web with Dynamic LINQ + SignalR

15 Jul 2017 by dsuryd

Application of "MVVM over SignalR" library described in a previous CodeProject tip, combined with Dynamic LINQ library to do incremental web search by typing the query

Tree View in Swift For iOS

22 May 2016 by pgmr_64804

Tree View in Swift for iOS that is easy to implement and use

Splash Screen using ProgressBar on Windows Phone

9 Jul 2012 by Christian Amado

In this tutorial, we will discuss on ProgressBar & Background worker. Follow the step-by-step tutorial to know how to use these clases.

Windows-Phone-7

Playing Audio on Android from an HTML5 File

3 Nov 2013 by Kyle A.B.

Learn how to play Audio in an Android app from an HTML5 page in the Apps Assets folder.

Example of Using Google Maps Service and GPS in Android

23 Dec 2014 by joseacl79

Create a Google maps app and add markers on it

Pay Attention to SystemTray

2 Apr 2014 by Houssem_Dellai

We'll see how SystemTray properties can help you design nifty apps

A Collection of the Most Useful Droidio (Android Studio) Hotkeys

21 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

A potentially-exhausting-but-not-exhaustive list of shortcut key combinations to use in Android Studio

Debug Ionic Android Application On Mobile Devices or Emulators

16 Sep 2015 by mudasser ajaz

How to debug ionic Android application in development phase

Remind review in iPhone apps

12 Dec 2013 by Cloud Hsu

How to remind review in iPhone App

Reject and Accept an Incoming Call

15 Feb 2014 by Yildirim Kocdag

This article helps you to reject and accept an incoming call for your Android device with functions.

Easiest Way to Call a RESTful Method from Android

4 Apr 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Call a RESTful method from Android without breaking, or in any wise damaging, a sweat

Creating and Invoking an Activity in Droidio (Android Studio)

19 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

How to create an Android Activity and its associated Layout file, then invoke (intent) them from another Activity

Android ADB Commands Using Batch File

10 Oct 2014 by Pavel Durov

This tip will show how to use a batch file for adb commands.

How to Establish a Different Picture of the Android Camera by Image Processing (Gray and Comic)?

19 Jan 2015 by Lai Taiyu

To establish a different picture of the Android camera by image processing (Gray and Comic)

Display Activity Indicator with Overlay

5 Dec 2015 by Vince Chan

How to display activity indicator with overlay

Modifying the Call History on Windows Mobile

24 Mar 2010 by mdanh2002

On Windows Mobile, The Call Log API provides read-only access to the device call history via its PhoneOpenCallLog and PhoneGetCallLogEntry function. The .NET Compact Framework does not provide methods to access these APIs but OpenNetCF has a nice wrapper via its OpenNETCF.Phone...

Mobile processor usage

2 Dec 2010 by LloydA111

Very useful :) Perhaps a slight improvement would be for it to take the retrieved value (in this case 97) and take it away from 100?

Open source project of guitar tablature viewer for Windows Phone

16 Nov 2011 by Ilya Builuk

Open source project of guitar tablature viewer for Windows Phone

Windows-Phone-7

How to access network speed when playing video in Android Platform

25 Dec 2011 by tojine

As MediaPlayer of Android has no API to know the buffering time, I just only access the speed of network via reading the linux proc file(/proc/net/dev) to enable the UI displaying the download speed

Keyboard Handling in iPhone Applications using one line of code

23 Dec 2012 by Sukhpal Singh JNU Jaipur

This is a tutorial about KeyboardHandler library in iPhone

Android: Activity Life Cycle

4 Sep 2013 by Satyam A.

Here we see how Android Activity LifeCycle works.

How to View SQLite Data from Droidio

7 Apr 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Step-by-step instructions on how to view SQLite data from Android Studio and SQLite Data Browser

Generator for SQLite Use in Android

13 Nov 2014 by A.Ebrahimi

Tools introduction for Android developers who use SQlite in coding

Using Hardware Keys on Android for Security Apps

20 Apr 2015 by jit_knit

Using Hardware Keys on Android for Security Apps

Using Integer Instead of Enum in XAML

26 Sep 2015 by Piyush Manharlal

Using integer instead of Enum for ComboBox and Radio Button in XAML

UIPopoverPresentationController

15 Nov 2015 by David Lashkhi

Working with UIPopoverPresentationController

WebView JS Bridge - Android

11 Dec 2015 by Swagat Parida

WebView JS Bridge - Android

How To Make The ListView Aware Of Data Changes

5 Sep 2017 by dimpant

Learn how to properly use the NotifyDataSetChanged method of the ListViewAdapter to remove items from a ListView

Different styles for writing Hello World program in the Ring programming language

28 Dec 2017 by Rubin Liu

A quick look around the different styles in the Ring programming language!

Finger Print Authentication using Xamarin Forms

13 Mar 2018 by Slim Hammami

This is a tutorial which contains the finger print authentication using Xamarin Forms

How to Connect a Client on Your Host to a Server Running on Andoid Emulator

28 Dec 2017 by infal

How to establish a connection to server running in Android emulator

Dynamically resize WebBrowser-control in Silverlight4 for Windows Phone

27 Jan 2011 by Arogarth

Dynamic WebBrowser size

Windows-Phone-7

Clean up your margins when using the Windows Phone 7 AD SDK

20 Mar 2011 by mbcrump

This article will show you a tip/trick to help your ad display properly.

Windows-Phone-7

equals( ) Versus == in Java(Android)

24 Nov 2011 by Jaydeep Jadav

It is important to understand that the equals( ) method and the == operator perform two different operations.

Mobile IMEI Validation

21 Dec 2011 by danlobo

There is my version, no use of int arrays. While the while instruction is a good approach in many cases, in this specific one, it is not necessary, since the bigger number will be 18 (9 * 2):private Boolean ValidateIMEI(string IMEI){ if (IMEI.Length != 15) return false; var sum...

Android - Image Operations Using BitmapFactory

30 Jul 2013 by User 4838655

Walltoday is an app for setting a wallpaper for each day.

WebView browser controller

30 Aug 2013 by huyletran

Android webview browser controller

Customized StickyGridHeaders

13 Sep 2013 by Ahmed Alaa El-Din

I customized StickyGridHeaders to work on any data and group by any data.

Android JSON Parser Java Classes Creator Online Tool

12 Feb 2014 by Sukhpal Singh JNU Jaipur

JSON parser classes creator tool for Android

Android Database Example Project (Thread Safe Version)

13 Jun 2014 by Right Handed Monkey

This is a tutorial for accessing sqlite databases in Android in a thread safe manner. If you download the library code, please bookmark, comment on, or rate the article - it helps out tremendously.

Windows Phone : Location : Map : Pushpin

12 Aug 2014 by ShubhamSaxena

Track your location, mark it on a map using pushpin

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Windows-Phone-8

Android Cards Counter

10 Apr 2015 by ShareIdeas

This Android project can get cards number leveraging the principle of digital image.

Create and Run Your First Smart Watch App in 5 Minutes or Less

19 Sep 2015 by lschauer

Build and run a real smart watch app without even downloading an SDK

Integrate NativeScript with Google Firebase Notification (FCM) Using Angular2 and Typescript For Android Devices

18 Feb 2017 by Nesreen Maged

Use native script with Angular2 and typescript to build a native Android mobile app that is integrated with Google firebase notification FCM

How to Use Web Sockets in an AngularJS SPA on Apache Cordova

6 Mar 2018 by Silvia Campo

I've been using web sockets the same way as a regular http request; I wasn't using them to their full potential...

A purist hello world app: an IPhone project template without .XIB

13 Aug 2010 by Ohmu

A step-by-step Guide to getting a pure code application template.

Getting Processor architecture in x86 and x64 bit platform.

12 Oct 2010 by Sarath C

GetSystemInfo provides the basic system information and processor architecture of the underlying platform. This API can be used successfully in both x64 and x86 platform. But, under 64-bit WIndows, we can run 32 bit Applications( WOW64). If a WOW64 process call GetSystemInfo API, it will return the

Designing for the BlackBerry PlayBook

18 Apr 2011 by Paul Trani

Create Gradient Lines with Drawables in Android

23 Nov 2011 by Jaydeep Jadav

This article will show you how to create simple gradient line separators to spice up the layout a little bit.

Drag, Drop, and Rotate for Safari in iPad

25 Apr 2013 by Igor Krupitsky

Example of how to use JavaScript to drag, drop, and rotate elements for Safari in iPad.

Handling Phone Events in Android Programs

19 Sep 2012 by krasnoff

In this article, we will learn to write code which responds to various phone events such as: phone ring, start conversation, start outgoing calls, etc.

Using PhoneGap in Windows Store Applications

14 Jan 2013 by Mihail Mateev

In this article you will learn about how to use PhoneGap with the new cutting edge Microsoft platform – Windows 8

Android - To Do\Shopping List

13 Jun 2013 by Deepali Dhingra

This tip explains how to create a to do or Shopping List app with listview, sqlite, dialog and customadapter

Bitmap combination

27 Aug 2013 by huyletran

Create a new bitmap by combining many bitmaps.

Listview Endless Scrolling

7 Sep 2013 by huyletran

Make a vertical listview with scroll looping

Workaround to Fix Audio Autoplay on Mobile Browsers!

2 Nov 2013 by Elagizy

Most of the mobile browsers don't support audio autoplay to save mobile bandwidth on behalf of the user!

Switching between List Empty and Busy Indicators for Android ListView

24 Feb 2014 by cigwork

I wanted to show a "no data" legend when there's nothing to show for an asynchronously loaded list and a busy indicator whilst items are being sought/loaded.

Using CocoaPods on iOS

4 Mar 2014 by Melih Mucuk

Configuring and using CocoaPods on iOS projects.

Change an Android Layout's default header text

16 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

How to quickly and easily change a Layout's header text

Matematico, Android Card Game

7 Dec 2014 by martin.nedopil

Logical card Android game

Understanding of the Android DrawingState

8 Apr 2015 by Yesy

Demonstrate how to use the Android drawingstate

Access Violation Crash on Windows Phone Devices

21 Apr 2015 by Bogdan Bujdea

Access Violation Crash on Windows Phone Devices

Access Genymotion Folders in Windows Explorer/Finder using Smart Disk Pro

2 Dec 2015 by Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Explore your Genymotion Device folders

Let's Build iOS App in Xamarin.iOS Part I - An Introduction

14 Feb 2016 by SubhamoyBurman

Understand the basics of how iOS applications are constructed and how Xamarin helps you to do so in C#

Use of Realm Object in Realm Event Handler

23 Jun 2018 by Biswal Tanmaya

Use of Realm object in Realm event handler

How to Create an Android Application Widget using the Apache Cordova Plugin ACE

1 Dec 2017 by Silvia Campo

This post contains steps on how to set up an Android application widget in an hybrid mobile application using Apache Cordova and the plugin ACE from Microsoft.

Solving the "Unable to Connect to the MDS Simulator Service" Problem in Blackberry Simulators

8 Jul 2010 by Karthik. A

How to solve a problem in BB simulators

Another way of Consuming WCF from PHP, iPhone, JavaMobile, JSON clients

27 Sep 2010 by Frozen Rain

There is a simple way to consume WCF from clients which do not support Microsoft's SOAP implementation. It is achieved by using REST to accept data and convert REST calls to SOAP calls with the PHP Framework.

Get the versionCode and versionName of your Android app

23 Nov 2011 by Jaydeep Jadav

The following trick tell you How to get the versionCode and versionName of your android app using code

Get actual screen size for the application layout dynamically

12 Jan 2012 by All Time Programming

Get actual screen size for the application layout dynamically

Application bar for Windows Phone 7

24 Apr 2012 by QArea Team

Application Bar is a pop-up panel at the bottom of the application window, which can contain from one to four buttons, which allow you to perform some action.

Windows-Phone-7

How to Use libphonenumber for iPhone Apps

4 Sep 2012 by omryl

Use libphonenumber in iphone apps in an efficient and clean way

Running Android Apps on Emulator

26 Nov 2012 by Azim Zahir

This article demonstrates running Android applications on emulator.

ListActivity setSelection within onCreate()

23 Dec 2012 by JIANGWilliam

Specify the displayed position before launching a ListActivity

Android Alphabetic IndexBar Scroller

20 Feb 2013 by Khushboo Kaur

This article would help you develop the Index Bar for Android across all screen resolutions.

InetAddress Java Class

3 Mar 2013 by Marius Iulian Mihailescu

The article describes the use of InetAddress class with short and easy-to-understand examples. I have tried to focus on practical examples showing how we can obtain information about a host. The examples provided in this article are provided from the academic point of view.

Windows-Phone-7

Install and Setup Files

28 Mar 2013 by IPI Paul

Use iPhone to install Windows software.

Change The Image Color in Android

22 Mar 2013 by Dheeraj Singh Bhadoria

This Artical shows that how we can change the color of any image throw Bitmap

Check whether location services are enabled on Android Phone

1 Apr 2013 by Melih Mucuk

Checking location services are enabled or disabled on android phone.

Android - To Do\Shopping List [Tip/Trick] - Part 2

13 Jun 2013 by Deepali Dhingra

This tip explains how to create a to do or Shopping List app with listview, sqlite, dialog and customadapter.

Login and Logout from Facebook in Windows Phone 7

12 Jun 2013 by Sahil Mehta

Logout from Facebook.

Windows-Phone-7

Xcode 4 Cookbook review

2 Aug 2013 by Mem Dixy

A review of the book Xcode 4 Cookbook.

Firefox OS Browser Simulator

29 Nov 2013 by Siddharth Chandra

Firefox OS browser simulator using HTML5/JavaScript/CSS3

Parsing XML File in WindowsPhone in NO TIME

13 May 2014 by Saad_Mahmood

Parsing XML File in WindowsPhone in NO TIME Using BLEND for VS 2013

Windows-Phone-7

Use Android Themes to Incorporate a DRY Layout

19 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Simple steps needed to globally change a widget property

How to Enclose Multiple Android Widgets in a Rectangle

21 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

In which the user is shown how to enclose multiple widgets in a rectangle

How to Add Borders to Android Widgets

30 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Add borders to Android widgets, such as EditTexts, to "set them off/apart"

Add Menu Items, and Respond to Them, in Android Activities

4 Jun 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Wherein the steps to add menu items, and respond to them being selected, is delineated

How to Reference Colors by Name in Android Layouts

9 Jun 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

A handful of easy steps to enable using names instead of hex vals for colors

How to Send Email From an Exception Block in Android

9 Jun 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Simple code to send email which contains Exception text from a Catch Block

Device not recognized with ADB: What to do when everything else failed

1 Aug 2014 by pjaar89

Manufacturer's driver does not work? Device not listed in console or with Eclipse?

Compiling Native C/C++ library for Android

20 Aug 2014 by pi19404

This article describes the method to cross compile C/C++ library for Android OS

Installing Android 5.1 directly on your Nexus 7 2012 Wifi

13 Mar 2015 by OriginalGriff

If (like me) you have a Nexus7 that was converted into a door-stop by Lollipop 5.0 or 5.0.2, this is a guide in how to skip the wait for Google to realise you might want 5.1!

Chocolatechip-UI, Cordova and Android - Handling Physical Back Button Events

22 Aug 2015 by Alfeu Lucas Guedes

How to handle Android physical back button events with Chocolatechip-UI and Cordova.