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  • Mobile

    Windows 8 AppBars in WinJS

    Microsoft’s guidance for Windows 8 applications is based on content over chrome. Development styles for prior versions of Windows often included navigation controls, buttons, tabs, and other non-content related items intermixed with the data, often obscuring the information that the application was trying to convey. This isn’t to say that we were all doing it wrong all of these years, as there wasn’t a mechanism (or even guidance) in place to provide an alternative.
    January 18, 2013
  • Mobile

    Windows 8 GridView, ListView and SnapView

    Every Windows 8 application must also support SnapView, in which your application is allocated 320x768 pixels – that is, your application is squeezed into a relatively thin sliver on the left or right of the screen. GridView leaves much to be desired in SnapView and the common solution is to hide your GridView and to display the same data in a ListView, which works well in those dimensions as it scrolls vertically.
    January 17, 2013
  • Mobile

    Deploying Applications to iOS Devices Without Provisioning First

    One of the capabilities of Icenium that makes testing your mobile apps simpler is the ability to deploy applications in development to iOS devices without the need to provision them thought Apple’s developer portal, which requires a $99/year developer account. While getting a device provisioned...
    January 17, 2013
  • Mobile

    Environment Filter and other improvements

    The new additions to the service include the ability to use Environment data in the Advanced Query and improvements to the usability of the filtering experience by introducing an ability to tag and annotate individual items. Also included is a new feature that allows you to better control how data in the feature views are visualized by providing both expand and collapse functionality.
    January 16, 2013
  • Mobile Xamarin

    Chrome apps accelerated events

    Do you know what's better than building a Windows Application? Building a single application that not only runs on Windows, but also runs on Mac. And Linux. AND Chrome OS. Chrome Packaged Apps run anywhere that Chrome runs. They give you complete access to the device's native API's...
    January 16, 2013