Author: Nic Raboy

Show Native Toast Notifications In An Ionic Mobile App

January 6, 2016

A popular way to display notifications within a mobile app is through Toast notifications. Previously I demonstrated how to display these notifications using Ionic Framework 1, but with Ionic 2 being all the rage, I figured it would make sense to demonstrate how to do this again.

iOS has no true concept of a Toast notification like Android does, but using the great plugin by Eddy Verbruggen, we can make it possible in iOS. This is the same plugin we make use of in the Ionic Framework 1 tutorial.

January 5, 2016

Nic Raboy

I’ve always wondered what it took to develop a real-time chat application. Being able to broadcast messages instantly to other people using the same application is a pretty cool concept. Since I’ve been playing around a lot with the Couchbase, Express, Angular, and Node.js (CEAN) stack, I figured it would be pretty awesome to try to make a chat application using those technologies. To make life easy, I found a pretty sweet library called Socket.io, which will do a lot of the tough broadcasting work.

We’re going to see how to create a very simple chat application, that with a little imagination, can become something incredible.

January 4, 2016

Nic Raboy

If you’re like me, you’re terrible when it comes to design and that includes graphic design. Creating icons throughout an app can be a rough process, not just from a creativity perspective, but also from the perspective of displaying these icons on various screen sizes and resolutions. Web developers have it easy with the incredibly useful Font Awesome glyph icon package. The thing is, it isn’t just web developers that can make use of Font Awesome.

It is very easy to include Font Awesome in your Telerik NativeScript mobile application. I already demonstrated using these glyph icons in an Ionic Framework, React Native, and even a native Android application. Now it’s time to do it with NativeScript.

January 3, 2016

Nic Raboy

This is officially the first episode in The Polyglot Developer Podcast! I’ve spent a long time thinking about creating a podcast, but now I can officially say that I’ve followed through with it. Episode #1: The Requirements for Developing Mobile Applications is an episode that I’ve broken into several parts because I feel there are different kinds of requirements.

What do you need in a mobile application?
What do you need to build a mobile application?
What do you need to do to drive success in a mobile application?

Those three topics should be considered by everyone looking to develop their first mobile application.

January 2, 2016

Nic Raboy

Previously I demonstrated how to use Oauth in an Ionic Framework 1 Android and iOS mobile application, but with Ionic 2 becoming all the rage, I figured my old guide needed a refresher.

Modern applications are always making use of APIs and data from third party services. The problem is, these remote services require a special kind of authentication to happen in order to work with the data they manage. The most common form of authentication for web services is Oauth.

In my Ionic Framework 1 tutorial I demonstrated Google Oauth, but this time we’re going to see how to use Facebook Oauth in an Ionic 2 application.

January 1, 2016

Nic Raboy

To help kick off the new year, I wanted to announce that I am creating a podcast titled The Polyglot Developer Podcast that will be released to iTunes as well as Pocket Casts.

You might have some questions regarding this, such as:

What is a podcast?
What will this podcast hope to accomplish?
How will this podcast differ from all my videos and written blog articles?

Let’s break it down and get everything cleared up on why you should care about the free podcast that I’m publishing!

December 28, 2015

Nic Raboy

Bluehost is a great service that is incredibly cheap, but depending on the amount of traffic that you receive, a Bluehost server may not be able to accommodate in performance. For example my WordPress blog, the one you’re on now, receives too much traffic, which is why I had to host it on a VPS service. In particular I’m hosting this WordPress blog on Digital Ocean. Now, not everyone needs more than Bluehost so don’t think it is a bad service from the start.

Here we’re going to look at migrating a WordPress blog from Bluehost to a Digital Ocean virtual private server (VPS).

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