It’s Okay to Start From Scratch The announcement of the new facebook.com came with plenty of cool new features and ideas (see here). But, the most impactful idea I grasped onto was that it’s okay to start from scratch sometimes. Whether it be a technical or client project, we often find ourselves so deep into […]
Last week I made a list of the multiple different options for storing persistent data within an iOS Application. This week I thought I’d take a look at some of the different options for data storage within Android OS. Shared Preferences The first option we’ll discuss is the SharedPreferences class. You can use SharedPreferences to […]
In almost every mobile application you will have need to store data, whether it be to preserve state, to save information for the user, or to cache data received from a web service for “offline mode”, it is almost inevitable. Depending on your applications specific needs, there are many different options you can choose from, […]
When creating an iPhone application, there are so many things that people, including Apple, tell you NOT to do, but there is rarely a time that people recognize what an app does right. They look at an app, and say “wow”, this looks pretty. They, however, don’t know why it looks so good. Here are […]