As opposed to JavaScript and Python, variables and functions in CSCS are case-insensitive. The primary goal of CSCS is to let the developer write as little code as possible. In this article, Vassili Kaplan explains how you can use a scripting language to develop cross-platform mobile applications. You’ll find examples in both iOS and Android that include placing widgets on the screen, SQLite, Web Requests and JSON parsing.
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In this article, Saravanan V aims to be a primer on iOS animations exhaustively covering different ways of doing so. We start off by understanding the basics of animations, move to the Core Frameworks building a single example using the different methods offered and finally looking at ways to tune performance. The goal is to educate the reader with a set of choices to add animations to his/ her iOS app.
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Good performance is critical to delivering a good user experience, and iOS users often have high expectations of their apps. A slow and unresponsive app might make users give up on using your app or, worse, leave a bad rating. In this article, Axel Kee is going to look into five optimization tricks that will make your app feel more responsive.
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When creating mobile apps, you have to create and maintain the user interface and app logic for both iOS and Android separately: Objective-C/Swift with XCode and Java with Android Studio. That can quickly turn into a pain. With Xamarin.Forms, however, the UI and app logic for your app resides in a single codebase and you get to use a single IDE to maintain it all — saving time and headaches. In this article, take a lap around Xamarin.Forms to see what it can do for you.
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With the release of iOS 12 and XCode 10, the view controller in the content extension now enables user interaction which means notifications will become even more powerful and customizable. There are several new notification features such as new authorization options, dynamic quick actions and user interaction within notifications. In this article, Kaya Thomas will take a look into how to implement these features and if they are right for your app.
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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Capacitor and cutting-edge web technologies such as Vue.js and Ionic 4 web components to build cross-platform mobile applications for Android and iOS.
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Flutter makes building cross-platform mobile applications a breeze. It allows high-performance, beautiful applications to be built for iOS and Android from a single code base. It is also the development platform for Google’s upcoming Fuchsia operating system. In this article, Mike Bluestein introduces Flutter, compares it to other mobile development platforms, and shows how to use it to get started building apps.
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Since 1987, the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) has been taking place annually and keeping iOS developers on their toes. Lou Franco watched this year’s event and shares his notes and references in case you missed out.
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Since last year, it has been possible to add Siri support to an app if it fits into one of Apple’s pre-defined use cases. Adding Siri support to an app has a lot of steps, with a lot of configuration. But the code needed to handle the requests is fairly simple. In this article, Lou Franco will take you through the steps of setting up a extension on Apple’s developer website and of adding the Siri extension code to the app. Find out if SiriKit will work for you and how to use it.
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Today’s article is all about facial recognition technology. Despite all of the limitations of facial recognition, such as variations in posing, lighting and image quality, the technology is gaining in popularity and eventually will become a part of users’ everyday lives. In this article, Nataliia Kharchenko and Illia Chemolosov decided to share their experience of dealing with facial recognition algorithms and engines and things they’ve learned.
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