Create A Couchbase Lite Todo List With Native Android

By now, if you’ve been keeping up with my tutorials, you can probably put two-and-two together and determine that I’m really trying to get into the NoSQL world. Up until now I’ve brushed upon Google Firebase, Facebook Parse, and Apache CouchDB, most of which I’ve done some kind of todo list type application. Now of course, many of my previous tutorials were based on hybrid app development instead of native.

This time we’re going to take a look at Couchbase’s version of NoSQL in a mobile Android application. In particular a native Android application.

Using Gradle In Your Command Line Android Project

I’ve been developing mobile Android applications since 2011 and up until now I’ve been using nothing but Apache Ant for building them.

Now you’re probably like, it is 2015, why aren’t you using Gradle like the rest of the world? Well, I like Apache Ant, and I had no real reason to switch. However, I’ve decided this is the year I jump ship.

If you’re like me, a no IDE rebel coming from an Apache Ant world for Android development, this might help you out in making the switch to Gradle.

Adding Background Images To Ionic Framework Apps

I started working on an app and decided it was time to step up my design game. Usually my apps suffer from looking plain or dated even though they have some insanely awesome functionality (ex: OTP Safe). However, after looking at many other apps, I came to the conclusion that an app can look more attractive just by including a logo or some other kind of branding images.

The tricky part here is, how might you add images to your Ionic Framework application and have them look good across devices with multiple screen densities? After doing some research I found that this could easily be accomplished by using background images created with CSS.

Use Parse Core In Your Ionic Framework Mobile Apps

It is time I talk about another cloud data storage option for Ionic Framework. Previously I had shown how to use the Dropbox Datastore API, Firebase, and PouchDB to store information remotely.

This time I am going to discuss how to store data using Parse, a Facebook company, and retrieve data from the cloud.

Create A Complex Calculator App Using Ionic Framework

If you’ve been keeping up, I previously wrote two tutorials on the topic of evaluating mathematical expressions. The first tutorial was on the topic of converting an Infix expression into a Postfix expression also known as Reverse Polish Notation using the Shunting Yard algorithm. The second tutorial was on the topic of solving the Postfix expression.

Using the hybrid application framework, Ionic Framework, we’re going to create a calculator application for solving these complex expressions. Think of it as a mobile front end for the nice algorithms we made.

Print Data To Paper Or PDF Using Ionic Framework

Have you ever built an app that has heavy content that might need to one day be printed to a PDF or to paper? Maybe you’re building the next great email or news app, both of which have an expectation that you should be able to print what you’re reading.

Both iOS and Android have printing functionality. We are using Ionic Framework, and lucky for us, printing to either of these platforms couldn’t be easier when we use the Apache Cordova Printer Plugin by Sebastian Katzer.

Sign Into Firebase With Facebook Using Ionic Framework

To continue on my trend of Firebase and Ionic Framework based tutorials, I thought, wouldn’t it be cool to sign into your Firebase application using a social media account such as Facebook?

Out of the box Firebase and AngularFire offer some nifty methods for authentication, however they don’t work quite as expected when it comes to mobile hybrid applications and I’ll explain why.