Last year with iOS 9, Apple announced a new security requirement for your iOS and OS X apps: App Transport Security. From Apple’s docs: Starting in…
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In iOS, a view can contain two separate toolbar areas: a Navigation Bar, which displays at the top of the view, or a toolbar which…
Comments closedIn addition to the iOS Table Features I blogged about earlier, Xojo 2016r2 includes these additional powerful iOS features:
- Location
- Motion
- PicturePicker
- ScrollableArea
- SharingPanel
Making iOS apps just got a lot easier with the updates and enhancements to to the Table control in Xojo 2016r2. New features include:
- Scroll to a specific row in the table
- Row actions
- Row re-ordering
- Row editing
- Custom cells
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I’m sure you’ve all seen the iOS Mail app, which displays the number of unread messages in a small red badge in the top right of the app icon. You can do this too with your Xojo app and the magic of the Declare command.
Comments closedXojo is a popular way to create cross-platform apps for Windows, OS X, Linux, Raspberry Pi, web and iOS. I’m not surprised because Xojo makes creating software fast and fun! Xojo really is the best way to create cross-platform software.
Comments closedAnyone who has built an app in Xojo has used the Listbox method AddRow to create new rows. The iOSTable control in Xojo also has an AddRow method. However, unlike building a desktop app, AddRow is not always appropriate for iOS apps.
Comments closedYour iOS apps uses Views to display information to the user and often your app will have multiple views to show different information. These views can be displayed in different ways.
Comments closedXojo is similar to VB, Java and C#
The Xojo programming language is fully object-oriented and uses an object model that is quite similar to VB, Java and C#. If you are used those languages at all, you’ll be right at home with Xojo.
Available since 1998, Xojo was one of the first languages to use Automatic Reference Counting (ARC), something that other languages such as Swift and Objective-C now use. Xojo is type-safe and fully object-oriented making it easy to learn and use, but it also has advanced features such as namespaces, extension methods, exception handling, introspection, delegates and more.
Comments closedThe most direct way to support HiDPI* for custom controls is to draw into the Graphics object passed into the Paint event. That graphics object is already configured with the appropriate scale factor and double buffering- the entire control will be handled correctly by the framework if the DoubleBuffer property is set.
*As with other posts, we’ll use “HiDPI” to refer to both HiDPI on Windows and Retina on OS X.
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