Picasso is a great open-source SDK which let you display images efficiently on Android. I wanted to use it in my MvvmCross app because it really helps you having great display performances especially on list.
I have my images available as a remote HTTP URL in my ViewModel and I wanted to do this the easy and fast way. I then created a target binding !
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I have read, as a maybe a lot of you, that Sqlite is now shipped with Windows 10 : it’s true. Let’s see how you can target it.
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Today I faced a specific need withing a WPF application: I have a well-tested and already in production code which works well for a given user and I need to create an application to execute the same “one-thread/context” code for a lot of users at the same time. The code uses a lot of static fields, properties and can’t be run as it is in different threads.
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In this blog post I will show you how to create a 2D #XAML app which will be able to display a 3D view (holograms) and then how to go back to the 2D view from the 3D view.
We wil do this using DirectX and Unity.
As you can see in this video, the “context” of the leaved Windows is kept : the scroll position does not change.
Some days ago when uploading my Windows app to the Store, I’ve got a strange error message : “A previous submission for this app was released with a Windows Phone 8.1 appxbundle. Subsequent submissions must continue to contain a Windows Phone 8.1 appxbundle.”. Here’s how I fixed it !
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When working with the WinRT SDK you somethimes get exceptions from it with only an hexadecimal code to help you understand what the error is. Often, when you look for it on Google/Bing, you end with no help and no way to fix the error. There is a way to know the associated error message !
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When you build a Windows Phone App, you for sure take some time to translate it in several language. By default there is no easy way to translate the app name but you can do it. Here is a quick “how-to” !
Let me introduce you a new feature of Internet Explorer 11 which is available in your Windows 8.1 apps too : the MutationObserver. This object lets you observe the changes on any HTML element of your DOM.
“Content before Chrome” is the Leitmotif of Windows Store Apps. You’ll usually end up using a lot of images in your app and getting the dominant color of a picture may actually be useful. My first attempt to achieve this was to get the bytes of the picture and calculate the average value. There is actually an easier and faster solution using the Windows Rutime API.
Windows 8.1 comes with a new feature in the WinJS SDK : a scheduler. Let’s see what it is and how to use it!
In Windows 8, every job is nearly done as soon as you execute it. You could play with the msSetImmediate function but it was still a little mode “hack” than “code”.
With Windows 8.1, the SDK introduce a scheduler used by the whole WinJS framework. This scheduler helps you to define what is important (animations, visual feedback, manage user input) from what can be delayed (background work, data processing not used immediatly).
The goal is to let you build application which reacts immedialty to the user will.
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