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Posts related to mobile app development, something I live for a very long time. This page lists all posts in the category, in reverse chronological order.

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  • Upgrading Old Flutter Apps

    Posted Saturday, December 28, 2024 at 11:31 AM  in Flutter, Mobile Development

    I recently purchased a Google Pixel 9 phone and migrated all of my stuff to it. The transfer process is very thorough and gets all of my app store apps plus existing data. Unfortunately, Google's migration process doesn't migrate applications I deployed to the device via side-loading (installing them directly on the device using Android Studio). These are Flutter apps I wrote for myself and I only update them when I get a new device. This post explains my process for upgrading the apps for new phones.

  • Google Identity Confirmation Failure

    Posted Monday, November 25, 2024 at 07:54 AM  in Miscellaneous, Mobile Development

    Google recently started asking for ID verification for Play Store developers. The time came for me to submit mine and I dutifully submitted both a scan of my passport as well as a scan of my driver's license (both sides). Google, of course, repeatedly failed the verification process without telling me anything about what was wrong with my submission.

  • Repeating Countdown Timer in Flutter

    Posted Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 05:07 PM  in Flutter, Mobile Development

    A while back, while anticipating a particular event (my retirement), I decided to create an app that allowed me track the number of days until the event. One thing led to another and I decided to create a more generic version of the app so I could write about it here.

  • Simple RPN Calculator

    Posted August 7, 2023  in Mobile Development, Miscellaneous, Flutter

    I started a new project this weekend, a simple RPN Calculator project I'm writing in Flutter. The app will be free and advertisement free. My goal is to publish it on the app stores as well as a web application.

  • Apache Cordova API Cookbook Site Retired

    Posted February 9, 2022  in Mobile Development

    My Apache Cordova API Cookbook came out years ago and Cordova's moved a long way from the version 4 covered in the book. In this post, I announce that I retired the book's landing page.

  • Apache Cordova 4 Programming Site Retired

    Posted February 9, 2022  in Mobile Development

    My Apache Cordova 4 Programming book came out years ago and Cordova's moved a long way from the version 4 covered in the book. In this post, I announce that I retired the book's landing page.

  • Ionic Slides Example

    Posted May 18, 2020  in Mobile Development

    After struggling a bit to understand how to use the Ionic Slides component, I finally figured it out and published this post describing the solution and pointing the reader to a full sample app using Slides on my GitHub account.

  • Platform-Specific Links in Ionic

    Posted May 14, 2020  in Mobile Development

    When I submitted my mobile app to Apple for inclusion in the App Store, they rejected my app since it used Android screen shots in the app's tutorial (using Ionic Slides). This post describes how I updated the app to display different graphics depending on whether the app targets Android vs. iOS.

  • First App Store App

    Posted May 13, 2020  in Mobile Development

    I created a mobile app called Time Slicer and this post announces that the app was accepted by Apple into the App Store.

  • Learning Progressive Web Apps Code Available

    Posted December 21, 2019  in Mobile Development

    Letting readers know that I published the source code repository for Learning Progressive Web Apps.

  • Introducing the Time Slicer App

    Posted November 27, 2019  in Mobile Development

    I was watching the evening news one day and started thinking about how much of the show was allocated to different topic categories (local news, national news, sports, etc.); I was especially curious about what the ratio was of news vs. commercials (there seemed to be a lot of car commercials). I decided to build an app that enabled me to capture (measure) the amount of time allocated across multiple categories. I thought perhaps that others would like a similar app, so I decided to publish it as my first app store app.

  • 9-Patch Files for Ionic Capacitor Apps

    Posted November 13, 2019  in Mobile Development

    I wanted to build a 9-patch icon for an Android app I was building and found an article by Josh Morony that attempted to describe how to do it. After finally figuring it out, I wrote this article to fill in some of the missing or unclear details in Josh's article.

  • Apache Cordova 3 Programming Site Retired

    Posted July 2, 2018  in Mobile Development

    Announcing the shutdown of the landing page for my Apache Cordova 3 Programming book.

  • Advancing Technology in Wilmington Meetup

    Posted March 16, 2018  in Mobile Development

    Announcing my presentation at the Advancing Technology Meetup in Wilmington

  • My ReactiveConf 2017 Sessions

    Posted November 18, 2017  in Mobile Development

    Highlights my presentations and experience at ReactiveConf in Bratislava.

  • Visual Studio App Center Launched Today

    Posted November 15, 2017  in Mobile Development

    With much fanfare, Microsoft launched Visual Studio App Center today.  This is the product team I work on at Microsoft.

  • PhoneGap Day 2017 Presentation

    Posted November 3, 2017  in Mobile Development

    Highlights my presentation at PhoneGap day 2017.

  • NCDevCon 2017 Presentation

    Posted November 2, 2017  in Mobile Development

    Highlights my sessions at NCDevCon 2017

  • Epic UX Failure at Bandsintown

    Posted January 22, 2017  in Mobile Development

    Expresses my frustration with the Bandsintown application.

  • Microsoft Cordova (TACO) Docs

    Posted December 17, 2016  in Mobile Development

    Describes my work as a contractor working on the documentation for the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova.

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