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Xojo for Students

Published January 25, 2024 by Xojo

Xojo is a programming language and development environment for creating cross-platform applications for macOS, Windows and Linux from whatever computer you use – Mac, Windows or Linux. You can also create web, iOS, Android and Raspberry Pi apps with Xojo. To empower students, Xojo has partnered with GitHub to offer Xojo Pro to all students in the GitHub Student Developer Pack. In addition to Xojo, the Pack includes tons of free tools to help students expand their technical knowledge and learn new skills.

Students looking to begin their journey into programming choose Xojo for its ease of use and dedication to cross-platform development. Plus, Xojo is true rapid app development and is ideal for building prototypes and mockups really fast. All of these features benefit from Xojo’s OOP-focus. Xojo also has an active and helpful community and years worth of free, on-line resources.

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Remote Debugger: How to debug your app on any computer

Published January 19, 2024 by Geoff Perlman

If only you could run your app in debug mode on a specific, remote computer. With Xojo, you can. Let’s talk about Xojo’s Remote Debugger.

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Webinar Follow-Up: Using Xojo to Develop NetSuite Android Apps

Published December 19, 2023 by Tim Dietrich

Last week I was thrilled to present Xojo’s “Using Xojo to Develop NetSuite Android Apps” webinar. This blog post is intended as a follow-up to that webinar. I hope to provide some additional information that we didn’t have time to cover, answer some of the questions that came up during and after the webinar, and also provide a link to the Xojo project that we created during the webinar.

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Android Design Extensions 2.0 for Xojo 2023r3 and Later

Published December 12, 2023 by Martin T.

Half a year has passed since the introduction of Android as a new target in Xojo 2023r2, and hundreds of framework and compiler bugs have been fixed and new features introduced. This is also the case in the latest Xojo release 2023r4. So it’s time to take the Android Design Extensions to a new level and release version 2.0. This version works with Xojo 2023r3 and late releases.

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Simplicity and Security, Xojo Cloud is Ideal Hosting for Xojo Web Apps

Simplicity and Security, Xojo Cloud is Ideal Hosting for Xojo Web Apps

Published October 30, 2023 by Xojo

Xojo Cloud is the premier hosting solution for developers looking for a reliable, secure and high-performance hosting environment for Xojo web applications. Xojo Cloud is developed specifically for Xojo web applications and offers a range of benefits for you and your applications that make it worth the investment.

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Android Improvements in Xojo 2023r3

Published October 10, 2023 by Paul Lefebvre

Android remains in Beta, but there have been many fixes and improvements in Xojo 2023r3 and I’d like to highlight a few including: more support for dark mode, additions to MobileTextField, a Destination property, a HasBackButton property, MobilePopupMenu, enhancements to MobileHTMLViewer, support for running JavaScript, the new Kotlin Declare and more detailed in this post.

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Get Set

Published October 10, 2023 by Paul Lefebvre

If you need to work with sets, you may find Xojo’s new Set class useful.

A set is a group of items, not unlike a Dictionary. You can add or remove items from the set, as you might expect, but some of its more unique capabilities let you do a difference, intersection and union of two sets.

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Adding Icon Badges and a Manifest to Xojo Web Applications

Published October 5, 2023 by Ricardo Cruz

With macOS Sonoma, users can add a Xojo web app to the Home / Dock. That brings icon badges and manifest files to Xojo web apps starting with Xojo 2023r2. Let’s see how you can use them to make your web apps more accessible and useful.

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Develop Database Apps with Xojo

Develop Database Apps with Xojo

Published September 26, 2023 by Xojo

After you have designed your interface and begun coding, your next step may be to connect to a database. This blog post tells you the databases supported by Xojo, shows you where to find code samples and examples, plus tutorials and videos that walk you through connecting, updating, querying and managing a database, plus, an introduction to Xojo’s new DBKit. Get the resources and knowledge you need to get your first database project off the ground today.

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Over 20 years of native, cross-platform app development and still going strong

Published September 6, 2023 by Xojo

The recent news about Microsoft discontinuing Visual Studio’s support for Mac has got us talking about longevity in the field of software development. We all know technology changes rapidly and you, and the tools you use, can’t afford to stand still. Here’s an infographic that illustrates how Xojo’s been continually updating and modernizing since 1996 while other development tools come and go.

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