At the end of my last article, I left you hanging after describing activities, without telling you how to build a UI, so here we go. In the Android SDK, layouts are separate from the Java code th...
https://cindypotvin.com/how-to-get-started-with-android-development-layout-managers/
In a previous article, I wrote about how you can launch your first Android application from the samples provided with Android Studio. Now that you’ve had a chance to poke around a few samples, ...
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I’m pretty bad when it comes to remembering syntax details for languages I don’t use every day, especially since I work with a few languages that use C-syntax and not just JavaScript. Also, i...
Learning how to build a mobile application is a good project to improve your programming skills while learning to work in a different environment than the desktop or a web browser. You can get st...
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I wanted to start the real code for my side project by making a small skeleton of the project in ASP.NET MVC. This skeleton includes a basic form to create an event, which will be the starting po...
https://cindypotvin.com/using-the-jquery-ui-datepicker-with-asp-net-mvc/
When you start caching data to a local database from your Android application, sooner or later you’ll need to save images in that database too. For example, if you’re storing reports about ob...
https://cindypotvin.com/saving-an-image-in-a-sqlite-database-in-your-android-application/
In the Android SDK, an android.widget.Toast is a small message that pops up at the bottom of the screen to display an information. The toast will disappears by itself after a specified duration. ...
When I first heard about SignalR, I was not sure what was the point of it. The official description says that SignalR is a library that can be used with any ASP.NET application to add real-time c...
https://cindypotvin.com/what-is-signalr-and-why-should-i-use-it/
Showing a list of items is a very common pattern in mobile application. This pattern comes up often when I make a tutorial: I often need to interact with data, but I don’t want to spend a lot o...
https://cindypotvin.com/display-a-string-list-in-an-android-listview/
You can have more than one Web.config in an application and they will all be merged in the end, which is fine. Also, if you have a problem with the configuration for a given project it will usual...
https://cindypotvin.com/many-web-config-seems-to-be-merged-together/