After being available for just a week now, iOS 10 has already been installed on 34% of iOS devices. It may end up outpacing the adoption…
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In this Xojo tutorial we will see how simple it is to make an iOS App that shortens an entered URL using the public API of Bit.ly. We will use our own subclass inherited from Xojo.Net.HTTPSocket, and the Declare statement in order to use some functions and methods found on the native Cocoa Touch API. In fact, the use of Declare is mandatory because with the new Xojo Framewok we don’t yet have access to the EncodeURLComponent function available with the old framework. This one is a big help in substituting any ilegal character with his hexadecimal value for the final URL’s composition.
Comments closedStarting with iOS 9, some iPads now support app multitasking which allows you to use more than one app at a time on the device. These apps can be displayed side-by-side or with an overlay. Your Xojo iOS apps support this feature automatically when all the Supported Orientations for the iPadScreen are turned on for your app.
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Xojo is a great way to start making iOS apps. Whether you an app developer or you are just learning and want to make your own iOS apps, here are some reasons why you ought to look at Xojo.
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When you run your iOS projects from Xojo, they launch in the iOS Simulator. You can change which simulator starts by going to the Shared…
Comments closedLast 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…
1 CommentIn 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.
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