In the first post of our “Migrate to Bootstrap Journal” we told you about migrating two of our major software products to Twitter Bootstrap v3. In this episode you will hear about our choice to use Twitter Bootstrap and not any other framework like Zurb Foundation or Skeleton.
Welcome to the first entry of our "migrate-to-bootstrap journal" series #mtbj. In this and following posts we will share our know-how which we gained and will gain while migrating our whole Fusonic Connect / Ribbl Community Software product line from a conventional (and outdated) layout system to Twitter Bootstrap v3.
Developing mobile apps can be quite costly and time consuming if you have to support multiple platforms like Android, iOS, Blackberry and Windows Phone. There are many approaches trying to solve that problem. You could just simply live with it and develop native apps for each platform. You could use a cross platform toolkit like MonoTouch/MonoDroid. Or you could go for a web application / hybrid app like we did.
Increase user experience by using UI-Toasts for action-feedback, Making UIWebViews transparent, Buttons with image scaling
+ After a good feedback for our Monotouch / iOS Tips and Tricks series I decided to start the same thing for Android. This means I try to provide solutions for some common pitfalls during the Android development of our amazing product Fusonic Event Guide. Please be aware that we do not use Monodroid here, we just use the native way to code the APP, this means all sample code is written in…
+ Part 2 This is the second part of my "Monotouch - Tips and Tricks" series. I will write about the following topics: How to create reminders using NSNotifications + use of my UIAlertHelper class. How to simulate reminders/alerts using NSNotifications when the application has already been killed. (handling it in the FinishedLaunching method) A cool feature of the Fusonic EventGuide…
+ I recently had the joy of writing the IPhone-implementation of our amazing product Fusonic EventGuide. Because of my C# .NET/Mono experience and love it was obvious to reuse skills and libraries and so we bought a licence of MonoTouch. This was after the lay-off of the monotouch team, but luckily mtouch 4.0 is very mature and from my point of view it is definitely worth investing this money…
The Problem If you want to call a function at a specific time or interval even if the smartphone is sleeping you have to use the AlarmManager. But now the funny part starts! There could be several reasons that your receiver doesn't get called. This blog post could save you hours of frustration! The possible reasons 1. Receiver not declared in AndroidManifest.xml Declare the receiver in the Manifest-file: 2.…