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Since XCode made them available, Storyboards became a key concept for almost any GUI-oriented app: there's nothing wrong about it - there isn't a better way to design & arrange your views, …
Objective C: removing UIStoryboard constraints programmatically Read More
One of the most interesting Entity Framework features is the Lazy Load function, which allows a deferred data load of your related entities, meaning that DB data won't be loaded until you specifically request …
Enable or disable LazyLoading in Entity Framework Read More
When developing an iOS app you might need to have a few more images or photo in the iOS Simulator device. Unfortunately the process isn't as straightforward as you would expect …
Add images and photo to iOS Simulator Read More
Your beloved Galaxy S5 ceased talking after the latest android update? Fear not, for this is a common problem due to one of the new features of Google operating system's …
Samsung Galaxy S5 ringtone and notifications sounds not working anymore after upgrading to Android Lollipop Read More
With responsive design and adaptive layouts constantly increasing their audience, the importance of controlling the visibility of HTML elements inside the viewport is continuosly increasing. Unfortunately, neither javascript nor the popular jquery frameworks provide a native way to …
Jquery.scrolling: check HTML elements visibility in Viewport after a page scroll or resize Read MoreWe already discussed in a previous post how easy it is to create, publish and mantain a repository hosted on github.com by only using Mercurial and TortoiseHG without additional software - including Git. Here we'll go a step …
Manage GitHub Project Pages with Mercurial and TortoiseHG Read More
Introduction I don't think there's a single developer who doesn't know GitHub, the popular source-control web hosting service for Git. If I'm wrong and you never head about it I strongly suggest you to fill …
Using GitHub with Mercurial and TortoiseHG Read MoreLike 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