Posts under: Mobile Development

• Passing an object between activities using an Intent

  In this post we are going to be covering how to pass your custom objects through an intent between Android activities and services. It involves implementing a special interface called Parcelable that packs all your object as a parcel and allows your app to pass those parcels between its components. In this example we will be sharing playlists between activities

• Hiding url parameters names using Zend routers

  Hiding url parameters from the address bar can help your websites, or apps in a lot of ways. One of the aspects of its necessity is about of security. It's also optimizing your url for search engines which might improve your site's ranking. Zend Routes provides such a mechanism for creating such urls with ease

• Android Pie Chart Part 1. Drawing a pie

  The most critical part of creating a custom view is how it will present itself to the screen. In this post we will he creating a pie chart view. For now we will be focusing on drawing it on the screen. Of coarse, later on we are going to be adding functionality to our custom view and state.

• Android Pie Chart Part 2. Adding state feedback to the view

  Providing state feedback in a control is important because it serves as visual feedback that a control has acknowledged your action by drawing itself on touch. It should be no different when creating custom views. In this post we will be focusing on adding state feedback on our Pie chart view

• Android Pie Chart Part 3. Implementing callback methods on custom view

  Adding on to our previous pie chart custom view example, we are now going to be implementing callback methods in this post making our component respond to different events such slice clicks, when drawing is finished etc

• Creating and using shapes in Android

  We will be creating shapes in this post for your Android application. You can create shape graphics with gradients or solid colors, strokes, padding and alter corner radius'. We will cover what are the different type of shapes you can creating in Android and how to use them. No code necessary, just XML.

• Using custom fonts in Android

  Font can play a big role in the presentation aspect of your Android applications. This post is about importing and using custom fonts within your app.

• Introducing the Zend Framework

  This is a brief description of what the Zend framework is, its uses what advantages you ought to gain when using this framework when creating web apps and services.

• Setting up the Zend Framework

  A brief tutorial on how to set up the Zend framework and using it with Netbeans IDE.

• Setting Up For Android Development

  A quick start on how to set up the Android SDK on your computer.

• Part 1. jQuery Basics: Getting acquanted with jQuery

  jQuery really is a fantastic framework. You really write less and do more. It also has the largest collection of plugins and add-ons. In this post we are going to be getting started with using jQuery.

• Part 2. jQuery Basics: Animations and Events

  We are going to be exposing some of the great features that jQuery ships with. We will be exploring animations (when to use them) and events on a basic level in this post.

• Part 3. jQuery Basics: Pseudo selectors

  Finding elements using jQuery is fairly easy. But there's special technique that it also introduces. With the powers of jQuery you can now get HTML elements using pseudos which is exactly what we will be doing in this tutorial

• Part 4. jQuery Basics: Selecting HTML elements using CSS classes

  In part 3 we learned how to select HTML elements via pseudos. Now we are going to be manipulating our HTML using CSS classes.