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Location, Motion, PicturePicker & More: New iOS Features in Xojo

Published July 12, 2016 by Paul Lefebvre

In addition to the iOS Table Features I blogged about earlier, Xojo 2016r2 includes these additional powerful iOS features:

Location
Motion
PicturePicker
ScrollableArea
SharingPanel

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New iOS Table Features in Xojo

Published July 12, 2016 by Paul Lefebvre

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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Set iOS App Icon Badge Number

Set iOS App Icon Badge Number

Published June 17, 2016 by Paul Lefebvre

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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Community Action: Share Your Xojo Tips on Medium

Published June 9, 2016 by Paul Lefebvre

Xojo 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.

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Being Efficient with iOS Tables

Published May 23, 2016 by Geoff Perlman

Anyone 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.

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iOS View Navigation Tips

Published May 18, 2016 by Paul Lefebvre

Your 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.

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If Smartphone Encryption Is A Red Herring, How Do We Track The Bad Guys?

Published February 4, 2016 by Geoff Perlman

In the blog post Smartphone Encryption is a Red Herring, I pointed out the folly of requiring an encryption back door for the Good Guys to use. So the question arises- “What can be done? If we don’t want a global encryption back door that can be used by anyone, can we still track the Bad Guys?”

The answer is yes. There are plenty of options that don’t require a global back door. I’m not passing judgment on whether these are inherently good or bad options, just that they are available when there is a reason to track a Bad Guy.

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Smartphone Encryption is a Red Herring

Published January 27, 2016 by Geoff Perlman

As the Founder and CEO of a software company that makes a development tool for mobile platforms, as well as for desktop and web, I have a lot of experience with encryption. The current controversy over encryption is really important to me. During World War II, the Germans created a way of sending encrypted messages to commanders in the field. The device came to be known as an Engima machine. It looked like a typewriter but had an encryption key that changed a message into unreadable noise. That message could only be decoded if you knew the key used to encrypt it. The Allies worked very hard to get their hands on one of these devices so they could learn how it works and be able to decrypt the messages and know what the German military plans. Ultimately the Allies figured it out and it helped them win the war. If this has peaked your curiosity, check out the movie U-571 (a fictional account of the effort to obtain an Enigma machine) and The Imitation Game about the team that figured out the encryption key.

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Making An iOS App For The Daily WTF API

Published January 20, 2016 by Paul Lefebvre

If you work in the technologiy industry, I’m sure you’ve heard of the Daily WTF site. Their fun stories about technology gone wrong makes it one of my favorite web sites.

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Deploy iOS apps to your devices without an Apple Developer Membership

Published December 3, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre

With the release of Xcode 7, Apple combined the iOS and Mac Developer programs into a single Developer Program. Previously these programs were $99/year for each and now they are $99/year for the combined Apple Developer Program which lets you create and deploy apps for iOS and OS X.

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