Greg Shackles

C# To Go: Version 1.2 Released

Greg — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:04:52 +0000

Version 1.2 of C# To Go is now live in the Android Market. I also submitted the update to Amazon’s Android marketplace for approval, with any luck that will go through soon as well. This is a small release of C# To Go, but does come with some cool additions. Most importantly, it includes support for Android 4.0 [...]

A Look Back at 2011

Greg — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:29:23 +0000

This is definitely a bit cliche, but as the year draws to a close I decided I should take a look back and how I spent it. This post is meant simply to enumerate what I did this year, in no particular order, just to have it on record and thus is probably not an [...]

NYC Code Camp 6: Mobile Apps

Greg — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:19:18 +0000

Headed to the NYC Code Camp this weekend? The official mobile app for the camp is now available for Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7! First things first, here are the links: iOS Android Windows Phone 7 You should also be able to find all of them by searching for “nyc code camp” in the marketplace. I will be using these [...]

C# To Go: Version 1.1 Released

Greg — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:43:22 +0000

This is going to be a short and sweet post. I just wanted to announce that version 1.1 of C# To Go is now live in the Android Market. The update has also been submitted to Amazon’s Android marketplace for approval, so hopefully that should be updated within a few days as well. This is [...]

On Monospace 2011

Greg — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:02:28 +0000

I had hoped to write this post up last week but things got pretty busy once I got back to the real world and the week got away from me. I just wanted to write up a quick recap of my experience at Monospace last weekend while things are still fresh in my mind. TL;DR version: [...]

Introducing C# To Go: a C# Compiler for Android

Greg — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:42:22 +0000

If you follow me on Twitter (or the #monodroid hashtag), you might have seen some posts from me lately about progress on my new Android app, C# To Go. I’ve been cranking away on it in hopes of getting it to market in time for Monospace, and I’m excited to say that last night I [...]

Using Background Threads in Mono For Android Applications

Greg — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 04:56:25 +0000

When writing applications one thing to always keep in mind is that you should never block the UI thread. This makes for a poor user experience, and on Android you get the dreaded Application Not Responding dialog if there’s no response to user input within a few seconds. Mono For Android exposes many different ways [...]

Using AdMob in a MonoDroid Application

Greg — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:11:34 +0000

While MonoDroid makes it possible to write Android applications using .NET, what happens if you want to make use of existing third party Java libraries in your app? In this post I’ll talk about what your options are, and provide an example of how to serve ads from AdMob in your MonoDroid application using the [...]

Introduction to MonoDroid: Slides, Code and Video

Greg — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:56:09 +0000

In the month of February I had the opportunity to speak to a lot of people about MonoDroid. Down in New Jersey I spoke to the NJDOTNET group, and then in New York I talked MonoDroid at the NYC Code Camp and the NYC ALT.NET group. The slides and sample code for everything has been [...]

Using a Database in MonoDroid Applications

Greg — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:21:39 +0000

The stock database available in Android is SQLite, and chances are you’ll find yourself wanting to use it in your applications. But how do you go about doing so? In this post I’ll go over some options for accessing the database, exploring both the standard Android patterns and also an example of plugging in an [...]