Mobile Apps

Multi-Column Text Displays in Android

Recently, I was looking at creating two columns of text in an Android activity. It was not as straightforward as it first appeared to determine the number of characters that would appear in a TextView on screen but there is a simple solution. This article…

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Scope Management

What is scope creep? Project “scope” is the baseline for a project – what has been outlined in the requirements, wireframes, and design documents. This scope is agreed upon by all parties before moving on to implementation. The project’s budget and timeline has likely been…

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Webservices and Core Data

Most mobile applications today require interaction with data that is no longer local to the device. Applications access data from Facebook, Twitter, and any other number of disparate remote sources. Because of this, working with remote data is unavoidable and something that most developers encounter…

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Scheduling code execution on Android using AlarmManager

One of the advantages android gives developers over iOS is the ability to schedule code execution. This means your app can do something in the background at a specific time. In this example Im going to create a sample app that puts your phone on…

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Corporate Training and Productivity In The Mobile Revolution

The mobile revolution has been rolling forward now for over four years.  It’s hard to believe that what began as a few apps on one platform has bloomed to upwards of 2 million apps on multiple platforms. One of the more exciting trends I see…

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