Sencha Touch is awesome, but sometimes can be frustrating. Some components just don’t have the events that you need. For example you can’t add a tap listener for a container inside of your controller’s config. I know you can add a listener on the component in the view, but I hate doing this because it […]
I use UITableViews in almost every app I build, and sometimes I need to implement a pull to refresh like a boss. Its pretty easy so lets get started. Adding a UIRefreshViewControl Lets set up the scenario first. You have a storyboard with a view controller, and inside the view controller is the the UITableView […]
There are a lot of ways to get data from websites, most of the time this is in the form of an API. When this isn’t available, you can build a scrapper to pull data right off of the website through its html. When can you use a scraper? Anytime you have access to html […]
Navigation is something that almost every web app has to deal with, and most of the time navigation will have an active state. There are a couple of ways to do this, and I am going to demonstrate using jQuery as well as plain javascript just in case you don’t have jQuery in your project. […]
A little over two months ago my wife and I had our first child. I has been an amazing experience, and has changed my life forever. The biggest thing that has changed for me is I don’t have any time or energy anymore! I used to be able to work all day, hang out with […]
A couple weeks ago when wondering the web I came across an exciting new HTML 5 mobile framework that is powered by angular, and looks pretty cool! Its called the Ionic framework. It’s still in alpha, but it looks very promising, and here are some of the highlights from their website. Fast and responsive With minimal […]
The last year and a half has allowed me to really focus on front end development, more specifically front end development with html5 for mobile devices. I wanted to share my experiences to hopefully help developers choose the right framework if they are considering using Sencha Touch or building a HTML 5 hybrid app. I […]
Lately I have been playing with AngularJS and I am in love with it. Angular has these really cool components called filters which are described as: [custom_blockquote style=” grey”] A filter formats the value of an expression for display to the user. They can be used in view templates, controllers or services and it is […]
Today I was working on an iPhone project that required a custom UICollectionViewCell in my UICollectionView. Utilizing interface builder, and a custom xib you use this same technique to customize just about any UI component. I made my the project available from git hub: https://github.com/barrettbreshears/CustomCollectionViewCell Open up your project and add a new user interface […]
Sencha Touch is a HTML 5 framework that allows you to create cross platform mobile apps. When used with cordova you can build HTML apps that look and feel like a native app allowing you to cut down in your development time and budget. The frameworks learning curve is a little steep but once you […]