Wallace B. McClure

MonoTouch: iOS 6 Introduction, Social Media & Maps - Online Training with LearnNowOnline

One of my training courses has just been published by LearnNowOnline. I hope you find it helpful as you take up iOS 6 Development with MonoTouch. Here is some info about it below. Link: http://www.learnnowonline.com/learnmobilenow/topic/296

Course Description: This course takes a look at the iOS6 operating system and creating applications with MonoTouch. The course will start with an introduction to iOS 6 how it has grown, software support, how to support the older iOS systems plus other items. Next the course will dive into social web sites like Twitter and Facebook and incorporating updates into an application. Then the course will look into existing mapsand the new maps API.

Overview of iOS6

iOS6 with .NET, C#, & MonoTouch Seminar

I'll be doing an iOS6 with MonoTouch Seminar on Wednesday at 12 pm EST.  A little about the event:

iOS6 is the latest version of the iOS operating system for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. With this new version of iOS comes the iPhone 5. In this Live Learning, we’ll discuss how to support the new iPhone 5’s display, support for social networks in iOS, and the new pull to refresh functionality in iOS6.

jQuery Mobile Advanced - More jQuery Mobile and jQuery Mobile Themes

The second two of my three article series on jQuery Mobile have been posted to the MSDN Magazine Script Junkie Site.  I hope that they are helpful to you. 

There’s no doubt that mobile Web applications are here to stay. As I said at the start of the previous article in this series, talk to any C-level executive at a major company or any technology startup, and they’ll tell you about mobile apps.

jQuery Mobile (jQM) provides a JavaScript framework that allows developers to easily add a mobile look and feel to their Web applications. In this article I’ll dig into some advanced features of jQuery Mobile that—with some programming—a developer can use to provide an application that looks and feels very similar to a native app running on a device. Here’s what I’ll cover:

• $.mobile. You’ll learn what the $.mobile object is, how to use it and how to set values globally in an application.
• ListView.  We previously looked at the ListView at a high level. In this article I’ll describe more advanced features of the ListView that developers can use to provide the mobile equivalent of the iOS UITableView and the Android Listview.
• Navbar.  Native applications typically have a navbar that provides navigation for an application.  I’ll go into the more advanced concepts of the navbar, which let you provide users with a consistent navigation experience across an application.

I'm on the Tablet Show to talk MonoTouch and Mono for Android

Carl and Richard talk to Wally McClure about building mobile applications for iPhone and Android using MonoTouch and Mono for Android (respectively). The conversation starts out with Wally's original interest in the Mono tools, being able to leverage his code and skills in C# for mobile development. From there Wally drills into the challenges of tooling across platforms (testing frameworks, etc) as well as dealing with fragmentation of operating systems and SDKs - a bigger issue in Android than iOS, but still an issue.

Beating the Android Fragmentation Monster with .NET, C#, and Mono for Android - Article

Much has been made about fragmentation of the Android platform. The truth is that the Android platform is not as fragmented as developers think. Google provides a set of libraries that allow older versions of Android to get support for newer APIs. In this article, I'll create a version of the Star Trek navigation application (from my previous column) that runs on Android 2.x to 4.x for handsets and tablets.

The Android Support Package is a set of static libraries with additional APIs that can be used by an application. These libraries back port some newer APIs to older versions of Android. At the current time, there are two versions of the Support Package.

The v13 Support Package is similar in concept to the v4 Support Package. This package requires Android 3.2 (API Level 13) or later. It has some underlying implementation changes.

Learn Cross Platform Development for iPhone, iPad, and Android with LearnNowOnline, MonoTouch, and Mono for Android using .NET/C#

I would like to highly encourage you to learn Cross Platform Development for iPhone, iPad, and Android with LearnNowOnline, MonoTouch, and Mono for Android using .NET/C#. By taking your existing knowledge, you can build applications that are best of breed and share code between them across the the iPhone, iPad, and Android platforms. Some of the courses include:

• Xamarin Tool with Various Mobile Platforms
• Xamarin Mobile and Web Services
• Xamarin Cross Platform and File Linking

I would not have done these videos if there was not tremendous value in the Xamarin technologies or their direction. I hope that they provide you value as you take up the iPhone, iPad, and Android.

Cross Platform Development with MonoTouch and Mono for Android

Databases and Data with MonoTouch and Mono for Android

Android 4 Fragments with Mono for Android

With the release of Android 3.0, Google added support for larger displays and attention-grabbing UI designs and layouts. On a tablet screen, UI components can be used to present better information. How does Android do this? It has a technology called Fragments, and I'll look at its implementation in the currently shipping operating system, Android 4. (Let's get past all the jokes about Android and fragmentation on its device platform.)

For more information on this, check out my article at Visual Studio Magazine - http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2012/12/13/android-4-and-fragments.aspx

Webinar Recording on Cross Platform Development with MonoTouch and Mono for Android

The iPhone and Android are dominant in the marketplace. The two platforms currently have 85% of the smartphone marketplace and are continuing to grow that marketshare. Developers are being tasked with targeting these two platforms. In this session, we’ll take a high level look at how we can use c# and .NET knowledge to share code between iOS and and Android. We’ll look at linked files, using the Xamarin Mobile API, the challenges of running across platforms and frameworks, as well as other features of Visual Studio, Monotouch, MonoDevelop, and Mono for Android that allows us to write as much code that can run on both platforms.

The following link is a recording on Cross Platform Development with MonoTouch and Mono for Android. I am guessing that the link only works in IE. That's out of my control.