Getting Started with Android Studio – from an Eclipse ADT user’s perspective
Nov 19,
2014
Introduction I you have seen my previous post you will know that I’m migrating from Eclipse to Android Studio as part of a routine update onLearning Tree’s course on Developing Android Applications. As discussed there: it is going to be, like it or not the official Android Development tool. As a seasoned Android developer, I’ve been […]
Customising Buttons with Android Shape Drawables
Aug 1,
2012
Producing a top-selling Android app requires more than great functionality. The app must look good too. Any professional Android developer will tell you that achieving this requires a great deal of time and effort. In this post, I want to look at just one apparently simple factor in creating the visuals which is the appearance […]
New Video Interview with Mobile App Development Instructor Joe Gagliardo
Jul 31,
2012
Watch Learning Tree’s new video interview with Joe Gagliardo and find out what he loves about teaching mobile application development. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Soq35Ovl8VA&w=560&h=315] Learn more about Learning Tree instructors on our website.
Using Snippets in Xcode
Jul 23,
2012
If you have done any editing of Objective-C source code in Xcode, you have probably noticed that it will sometimes give you useful templates of code to save typing. For example, if you type “switch” into the Xcode editor window inside a method body and press return, you get something like this: Typing on the […]
A Better Approach to Logging
Jul 11,
2012
Following on from my post last week about one-star reviews associated with the choice of artwork resolution for the retina iPad, there’s no surer way to get one-star reviews than have an application that crashes. At best it’s frustrating, at worst it results in data loss or corruption in applications that store data. For live […]
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ipad programming,
iphone app development,
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iphone programming,
logging,
mobile application development,
mobile computing,
nslog,
objective-c,
xcode