Web and Mobile Development articles
Update: Parse is shutting down. So you should start migrating.
In this article we’ll build a login screen which will be somewhat similar to whatsapp’s login screen. So the login and registration screens will actually be the same and the unique identifier for each user will be their phone numbers. So to quickly summarize, here are the fields we’ll have:
Spinners in Android are like select dropdowns (HTML) of web development. Once tapped, it shows a list of options in a dropdown menu from which one can select a value. It is very simple to add it as a View in the Layout file (just as any other view like TextView or EditView):
Continue reading “Understanding Android Spinners and Populating Them with (Adding) a Set of Items”
ListView is commonly used to display a set of data in a list. For example a list of emails, messages, tasks or contacts. I’ve written an article on how to work with lists in android before, which you might want to read.
Continue reading “Android Dividing Your ListView Into Sections with Group Headers”
There are times when you want to display data as a list. For example a list of emails, a list of messages, a list of tweets, a list of post titles, a list of photos with their titles and other meta data like dates and summary. Android provides 2 classes with the help of which we can achieve a scrollable list of items in our mobile application:
ListView but supports grouping of items that can be expanded individually to show its childrens.Just like we’ve Google’s AdSense program for all web publishers to generate revenue off their content, for mobile app developers there’s Google’s AdMob ads platform to monetize and promote their web app. PhoneGap is a great tool to convert JavaScript rich web apps to native mobile app. But when it comes to monetizing via ads, just putting Adsense code is not the solution as its meant for web usage only and is against Google’s terms and conditions. We’ll go through a simple process that I came across to integrate the native admob android sdk to our cordova apps and games without using any phonegap plugins.
Continue reading “Admob Native Android SDK Integration with Phonegap/Cordova without Plugins”
So you made your game or some other app that has multiple sound effects produced by several audio files. It works great on your desktop, laptop, etc. browsers but then you realize that you have some major issues with multiple sounds (or even single) on mobile and tablet platforms like iOS and android browsers. Sad!
Continue reading “Solve Your Game Audio Problems on iOS and Android with Web Audio API”
In one of my earlier posts I discussed some of the issues (or limitations) with HTML5 audio support in iOS and Android mobile and tablet platforms. In this article I am going to try to take a look at some of the ways we can overcome those limitations and quirks.