Mobile Newsletter - Building Android Apps with Entity Framework

Thursday, February 16, 2017	View online

Welcome to this week's Mobile Development newsletter from CodeProject. Industry News Realm introduces comprehensive support for Xamarin to warm up to Microsoft developer community Realm is now making it easy for Microsoft developers to use Realm to build highly-scalable, production-ready real-time apps. Read more OnMSFT Building Android Apps with Entity Framework Entity Framework is great, but was difficult to use in mobile development projects—until Entity Framework Core came along. Read more Xamarin To Use Or Not To Use: Touch Gesture Controls For Mobile Interfaces Many criticize gestural controls as being unintuitive and unnecessary. Despite this, widespread adoption is underway already, and the UI design world is burning the candle at both ends to develop solutions that are instinctively tactile. The challenges here are those of novelty. Read more Smashing Magazine Apache Cordova Windows 5.0.0 This release introduces a major change in resource-file behavior (see the docs on how to get the previous behavior back for referenced files) and adds WinMD + C++ based DLL combination support for plugins. Read more Cordova blog Patterns for Referencing Dependencies in Cross Platform Development There are many ways to obtain a reference to a dependency in programming. You may have heard of patterns called Service Locator, Constructor Injection, Static Instances or even PubSub. All of these are valid patterns and have their uses, but there are also many incorrect ways to use them. Read more Xamarin Help Google will soon delete apps with no privacy policies from Play Store This week, Google warned developers whose apps collect sensitive user data, but do not include a privacy policy, that their apps are at risk of removal from the Play Store on March 15. Read more TechRepublic Carnegie Mellon researchers want to fix app permissions once and for all Mobile app permissions are a daunting problem: it's difficult to know exactly what each app on your phone is doing, reading, or tracking when you're not using the app. Read more The Verge © 2017 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. To stop receiving The Code Project Mobile Development Newsletter click Unsubscribe. 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