- Building a Bag Class in Swift: Explorations into Generics and the Swift Generator Underbelly
- Jul 14, 2014
- Of Swift's many high-octane features, generics are among the most powerful. With generics and a bit of know-how, this article will help you learn to create collections that leverage custom storage and enumeration for nearly any kind of class or structure.
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- Building Apps that Circumvent Apple's 30 Percent Commission
- Nov 14, 2011
- Jeff Hughes shows you how to circumvent Apple's 30 percent fee altogether by building a web-based app instead.
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- Building Background-Aware Applications for iPhone
- Nov 18, 2010
- This chapter shows how iOS 4 supports background tasks, what types of background tasks are supported, how to suspend applications, and how to execute code in the background.
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- Building iOS Applications with Swift: A Q&A with BJ Miller
- Nov 20, 2014
- BJ Miller, author of Sams Teach Yourself Swift in 24 Hours, and Pearson Senior Acquisitions Editor Trina MacDonald discuss how Apple’s Swift programming language makes it easier for new iOS developers to build their first iOS applications.
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- Building iPhone and iPad Apps from Existing Web Content
- Sep 28, 2011
- Jeff Hughes tells you to how to arrange the data and view of content differently in your app so it doesn't have the same look and feel as your web site.
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- Building Mobile, Touch-Oriented Business Apps with the HTML Client in Visual Studio LightSwitch 2012
- May 29, 2013
- In this four-part series, Alessandro Del Sole, author of Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed, introduces the new HTML client in Visual Studio LightSwitch 2012. Part 1 discusses how to use the HTML client to create a line of business apps that can run on any device, including tablets and mobile phones.
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- Building Responsive User Interfaces in iOS6
- Jan 30, 2013
- The ability to create interfaces that display correctly regardless of your iDevice’s screen size or orientation is one of the key features that users expect in an application. This lesson explores the Xcode Auto Layout system and three different ways of adding rotatable and resizable interfaces to your apps.
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- Building Windows 8 Apps with JavaScript: Enabling Trial Mode in Your App
- Dec 24, 2012
- One of the great innovations that the Windows Phone ecosystem introduced to developers was platform-level support for trial apps. Not only does this save the store from being cluttered with tens of thousands of free or “lite” versions of paid apps, but it also enables developers to manage trial modes in their apps in the main codebase. From a consumer point of view, trial mode is a boon because you can take apps for a test drive before giving up your hard-earned cash.
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- Building Windows 8 Apps with JavaScript: Working with Ads
- Dec 17, 2012
- The authors of Building Windows 8 Apps with JavaScript show you how to build ads into your Windows 8 apps.
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- Building Windows 8 Apps with JavaScript: Working with In App Purchases
- Dec 31, 2012
- In-app purchases allow you, the developer, to sell app add-ons and features, or even physical products and services directly to users from within your app. In this excerpt, learn how to create in-app purchase functionality and define in-app offers in the store submission process.
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- Building with MIT App Inventor
- Dec 29, 2014
- The authors of Learning MIT App Inventor: A Hands-On Guide to Building Your Own Android Apps walk you through the MIT App Inventor site so you can understand how apps can request information, pull in data from the Internet, and interact with other applications.
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- Catering Android Apps to Tablets
- Feb 17, 2011
- In advance of the Honeycomb release, what are important aspects that an Android developer should consider in catering an app to tablets? Jim Steele fills in the blanks for you.
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- Choosing an Application Framework for Windows Phone 7 Application Development
- May 29, 2012
- There are two application frameworks for Windows Phone 7 application development: Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft XNA Framework. Each offer different strengths and weaknesses. By the end of this hour, you will be introduced to both the Silverlight and XNA frameworks.
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- Classes, Objects, and Methods in Objective-C
- Jul 11, 2011
- This chapter covers key concepts in object-oriented programming that will allow you to start working with classes in Objective-C.
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- Configuring NetBeans and Eclipse with the Android SDK
- Dec 12, 2012
- Jonathan S. Harbour explains the steps needed to get started programming with the Android SDK using both NetBeans and Eclipse. Learn how to create an emulator device and install the Android plug-ins for NetBeans and Eclipse.
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- Connecting Windows Phone 7 to Exchange Server
- Jan 26, 2011
- Like previous versions of Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7 provides connectivity to Exchange Server through ActiveSync. This article shows you how to configure ActiveSync for Windows Phone 7.
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- Converting a Java Program into an Android App
- Sep 25, 2013
- Bintu Harwani helps Java programmers understand the basic differences between Java and Android applications and the steps required to convert or re-create a Java program as an Android app.
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- Core iOS 6 Developer's Cookbook: Gestures and Touches
- Jan 7, 2013
- This chapter introduces direct manipulation interfaces that go far beyond prebuilt controls. You see how to create views that users can drag around the screen. You also discover how to distinguish and interpret gestures, which are a high-level touch abstraction, and gesture recognizer classes, which automatically detect common interaction styles like taps, swipes, and drags.
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- Creating a Windows 8 App: Try Out File | New | Project
- Dec 19, 2012
- Out of the box, Visual Studio templates provide a lot of functionality that enables you to create great-looking sites. This chapter looks at three of the five templates in detail to see how the navigation works, how the security context works, how that can affect navigation, and how you load content locally and from the web. Finally, learn how it is possible to pass data to and glean data from the different contexts within your app.
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- Creating an App Video on a Shoestring Budget
- Dec 19, 2011
- Creating a video for your iPhone or iPad app is important, and it doesn't have to cost a fortune, says Jeffrey Hughes.
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