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Like you probably already know, the ActionBar of an Android App can be set to allow backwards navigation from a child Activity to its parent, assuming that the relationship has been properly configured in the AndroidManifest.xml …
Android Studio: customize the "back to parent" ActionBar icon image (homeAsUpIndicator) Read MoreStarting from iOS7 the status bar style can be modified in two different ways or, to say it better, with the following scopes: per-Controller, meaning that each controller will be able to …
XCode: set Status Bar style and color in Objective-C Read MoreProportional image resizing is a fairly common scenario while developing an Android app: there are a number of situations where you might want an image to stretch itself to horizontally fit …
Android: proportionally stretch an ImageView to fit the whole screen width while maintaining its aspect ratio Read More
The first 2015 italian Twitter Webinar hosted by #TwitterAcademy ended a couple hours ago: it was mostly focused on an extensive overview of the two monitoring/advertising platforms granted by Twitter to …
#TwitterAcademy Feb-10 Italian Webinar: TwitterAnalytics, TwitterAds, QuickPromote and more Read More
I've already covered the practical advantages of the code-first approach featured by Entity Framework 6 in a previous post: the key concept there was all about creating the whole data model starting …
Entity Framework Code-First: how to generate an auto-increment ID field Read MoreYou probably already know that Windows 8 has a nice on-screen virtual keyboard just like any other mobile-ready OSes. Once activated, the keyboard will automatically slide-in every time a textbox field gains …
How to disable the On-Screen Touch Virtual Keyboard in Windows 8 Read More
Starting from Visual Studio 2012 the good ol' Cassini Web Server has been replaced by IIS Express. While Microsoft spent quite an amount of words describing the benefits brought by this not-so-minor change, the …
IIS Express: allow external requests from remote clients & devices Read MoreThe increasing need for speed in developing responsive, mobile-friendly websites recently shifted more and more web developers towards the use of some advanced CSS-based framework and/or boilerplate like Bootstrap, Foundation, Gumby, YAML, Skeleton and many others. Each one of them offers …
CSS namespaces: how to avoid conflict between style sheets files Read More
In the past few months we've seen the Bootstrap framework became more and more popular among web developers. The reasons are fairly obvious, we're talking about a powerful CSS/JS enhancement library featuring …
Using JQuery UI and Bootstrap togheter in the same web page Read More
WordPress 4.1 is now live! With the brand-new Twenty Fifteen theme widely adopted by many blog and websites, the Infinite Scroll Jetpack module is becoming more and more popular (if you don't know what we're talking …
WordPress: customizing the Jetpack Infinite Scroll Footer plugin module Read More