Mobile Newsletter - Saving data to a file in your Android application

17 articles this week Thursday, June 05, 2014 View online Welcome to this week's Mobile Development newsletter from CodeProject. Advertisements LearnSwift.tips Well, that didn't take long. Here's a good start on all you need to know about Apple's new iOS programming language. (more: Learn Swift) At long last, iPhone apps will have access to full-speed web browsing Until now, iPhone applications that wanted to display content had to use a separate, slower Apple browsing technology from the one employed in the mobile version of Safari. With iOS 8, though, developers will have access to Apple's fastest Javascript and other improved browsing methods as long as they use Apple's latest WebKit programming interface. (more: re/code) Her name is Cortana. Her attitude is almost human. A biography. (more: Engadget) Need a software collaboration system? Look no further. ::Workspaces now powers CodeProject! Start organizing and tracking your own development projects in real time. Git, task tracking - as many projects as you want and with a premium account you can make your workspaces private. Start using it today! Smartphone market share: Android stays ahead of Apple, Microsoft widens lead over Blackberry comScore is out with its latest monthly U.S. smartphone market share stats, and Android continues to stay ahead of the pack while Blackberry is slowly going bye-bye. (more: Geekwire) So you want to be an Android developer? Start with these resources Where to start, and which way to head first. (more: TechRepublic) Introducing DZone's 2014 Guide to Mobile Development Making informed decisions about mobile development requires an understanding of a wide variety of tools, strategies, and challenges, as well as careful consideration of the benefits and costs of every choice. DZone's 2014 Guide to Mobile Development was produced to help you understand these choices. (Requires registration) (more: DZone) Google ramps up efforts to attract developers for its smartwatch Do people even use watches anymore? (more: Infoworld) Latest Articles 17 articles overall. 16 new, 1 updated. New articles added Android Sample Code: Random Number Application - Android on Intel This paper provides an overview of random number APIs and also shows how to use different APIs to generate random numbers on the Android* OS. Real-time End-to-End H.265/HEVC Solution for Intel® Architecture-based Platforms - Android on Intel In this paper, we will investigate the HEVC codec characters and optimize the CPU-based software video trans-coding technologies， which provide the best video quality and the most flexible programming model. Our end-to-end solution can maximize Intel® Architecture (IA) platforms' capabilities for th Android* Tutorial: Writing a Multithreaded Application using Intel® Threading Building Blocks - Android on Intel In a recently posted stable release of Intel Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB), we have added experimental support for Android applications; i.e., building Intel TBB libraries for use in Android applications via the JNI interface. Peer-to-Peer Applications on Intel Android* Developer Guide - Android on Intel This article will highlight the basic steps to setup the socket connection between two Android devices. How-To: Test your app for FREE on Intel Android devices using appthwack.com - Android on Intel Appthwack is a cloud based real device testing website. This website allows you to test your Android, iOS and Web applications on the real device over cloud. NDK Android* Application Porting Methodologies - Android on Intel This guide is intended to help developers port existing ARM*-based NDK applications to x86. How to Use an Android Layout Mockup Utility that Generates Usable XML and Java - B. Clay Shannon Generate Layout XML and Java that can be used in Android Studio with no coding whatsoever Product Showcase How to debug an App for Android* x86 and the tools to use - Android on Intel This article provides a walk-through of Android application debugging tools and is designed to help developers new to the Android SDK and related tools get up to speed faster and resolve defects more effectively on Android x86 platform. Building Dynamic UI for Android* Devices - Android on Intel In this document, we will focus on a few Android UI programming techniques that will help you to achieve the goal of a dynamic UI – use of the action bar, tab, and swipe views with dynamic application data to enhance the screen navigation, use of Android fragments to design multiple-pane and master- Automatic Android* Testing with UiAutomator - Android on Intel I want to tell you about a wonderful tool to automatically test the UI of Android* applications. The name of this tool is UiAutomator. Sample Code: Data Encryption Application - Android on Intel This paper introduces data encryption APIs that are available through either Java* or OpenSSL*. Both solutions work on the Android* OS. Using the Android* x86 NDK with Eclipse* and Porting an NDK Sample App - Android on Intel In this article we will discuss how to configure Eclipse to take advantage of this feature, and walk through porting a sample NDK app. Windows Phone 7/8 Updating App Tile using Background Agent in Windows Phone 8 App - Madhur Kapoor Background Agents and Scheduled Tasks allows your application to execute to code in the background even when the application is not running in the foreground. This is quite useful in various type of scenarios where you want to update the Live Tile frequently, show a toast notification on getting som New Tips and Tricks added Android Push to Single Android Device - Attila Kúr Alternative Push Notifications (without GCM) targeting a single device How to Add Borders to Android Widgets - B. Clay Shannon Add borders to Android widgets, such as EditTexts, to "set them off/apart" Add Menu Items, and Respond to Them, in Android Activities - B. Clay Shannon Wherein the steps to add menu items, and respond to them being selected, is delineated Technical Blogs updated Android Saving data to a file in your Android application - Cindy Potvin This is the second post in my series about storage in Android applications. The other post is available here : http://blog.cindypotvin.com/introduction-how-to-save-data-in-your-android-application/ This post is about saving to a file from an Android application, which is the easiest way to store dat © 2014 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. To stop receiving The Code Project Insider News click here. CodeProject 503-250 Ferrand Drive, Toronto Ontario, M3C 3G8 Canada +1 416-849-8900 x 100 Please do not reply directly to this email. It was sent from an unattended mailbox. For correspondence please use webmaster@codeproject.com