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Create a Weather App with Forecast – API Integration

Bart Jacobs — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:42:53 +0000

In the first article of this series, we laid the foundation of the project by setting up the project and creating the application’s structure. In this article, we leverage the AFNetworking library to interact with the Forecast API. Introduction In the first installment of this series, we laid the foundation of our weather application. Users [...]

Reading NFC Tags with Android

Ralf Wondratschek — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:32:40 +0000

Are you curious about what NFC is and how it can be integrated into your own Android applications? This tutorial will quickly introduce you to the topic before diving in and teaching you how to build a simple NFC reader app! What is NFC? NFC is the abbreviation for Near Field Communication. It is the [...]

Connecting to an External Database With NuSOAP

Tomasz Wójcik — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:57:52 +0000

Many mobile applications use external databases that are located remotely on the Internet. In the following tutorial, we will create a simple database, connect to it, and receive or send data from this source. To do this we will use a Windows Phone 7 Silverlight based application and a NuSOAP web service. Let’s begin! 1. [...]

Create a Weather App with Forecast – Project Setup

Bart Jacobs — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:52:08 +0000

In March of this year, the company behind Dark Sky and Forecast.io introduced Forecast. Forecast is a simple weather API that provides both short- and longterm weather data. In this series, I will show you how to create a beautiful weather application for iOS powered by Forecast. Introduction Earlier this year, the Dark Sky Company [...]

iOS SDK: Customizing Popovers

Aaron Crabtree — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:47:26 +0000

Popovers are a great way to display supplementary information in an iPad app. Inevitably, as with most iOS objects, a little customization goes a long way in creating a design that is unique and fits in with your own app. In this tutorial, we will build a basic popover, then explore customizations one at a [...]

Build an AudioPlayer with PhoneGap: Application Tuning

Aurelio De Rosa — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:44:00 +0000

This is the third and final part of the series about Audero Audio Player. In this article, I will go over the remaining files so that you can finish the project and play around with it. Series Overview Application Setup Application Logic Application Tuning Style Tuning jQuery Mobile does a lot of the work for [...]

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Joel Bankhead — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:30:36 +0000

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How To Submit an iOS App to the App Store

Bart Jacobs — Mon, 06 May 2013 17:09:11 +0000

You have worked weeks or months on your first iOS application and you are ready to submit your masterpiece to Apple’s App Store. How do you do this? Is your application ready for submission? I am sure that some of these questions have entered your mind at one point or another. Is submitting an application [...]

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Amanda Hackwith — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:02:46 +0000

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Android SDK: Working with Google Maps – Displaying Places of Interest

Sue Smith — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:30:37 +0000

With Google Maps in your Android apps, you can provide users with localization functions, such as geographical information. Throughout this series we have been building an Android app in which the Google Maps Android API v2 combines with the Google Places API. So far we have displayed a map, in which the user can see [...]