Upcoming Presentation: Android Developer Conference

Turns out I will be speaking at the Android Developer Conference (AnDevCon) in Santa Clara, California on December 1st, 2015 to December 3rd, 2015.

If you’re unfamiliar with AnDevCon, it is a big deal. It is probably one of the better, if not the best, development conferences focusing on everything Android.

Per the AnDevCon website:

AnDevCon is the technical conference for professional software developers and engineers building Android apps. Offering mobile app development training, embedded Android secrets, and Android app development tutorials and classes, AnDevCon is the biggest, most info-packed, most practical Android conference in the world.

Top 5 Hybrid App Bloggers To Follow 2015

There are a lot of blogs out there on the internet and many on the topic of hybrid mobile app development. By hybrid mobile app development I am talking about technologies like Apache Cordova, Phonegap, Ionic Framework, and React Native. Basically all the technologies for building applications using web technologies. However, when it comes to blogs, not all are created equal.

This article is more of a personal opinion than anything, but I’m going to list off five blogs / bloggers that I feel deserve a shout out based on the quality of their material.

Saving Data In Your NativeScript Mobile Application

Recently I started fiddling with NativeScript from Telerik because I’ve been hearing a lot about it when I attend various developer conferences. If you’re unfamiliar with NativeScript, it is a cross platform mobile development framework similar to Ionic Framework and React Native. The difference being that NativeScript claims to map your UX to native layouts and give you full access to all device APIs.

Starting out, the thing I had some of the most trouble with was persisting data since it was poorly documented. Here we’re going to look at building a simple application that saves data to be accessed in the future, rather than only during the application session.

Launch The Web Browser In A NativeScript Mobile App

With my Telerik NativeScript adventures pressing on, I ran into an obstacle that took me quite some time to figure out. I wanted to launch a URL from within my application in the iOS and Android system web browser. It wasn’t obvious in the documentation at the time of writing this, but after a lot of trial and error, I figured it out.

In this guide we’re going to look at launching URLs in a web browser from our NativeScript application.

NativeScript 101: A Quickstart to Building Mobile Apps

I am very pleased to announce my second quickstart course titled NativeScript 101: A Quickstart to Building Mobile Apps found on the learning service Udemy. This course follows in the same direction as the previous course I released titled Ionic Framework 101, but instead of Ionic Framework we’re covering Telerik NativeScript. If you’re unfamiliar with NativeScript, it is a hybrid technology similar to Apache Cordova, but instead of using web interfaces it uses native device user interfaces giving your apps a truly native look and feel.

A little background on what I hoped to accomplish in this quickstart course.

Upcoming Presentation: ConnectJS 2015

In case you’re in the area and are interested, I will be in Atlanta, Georgia on October 16 and October 17 speaking at ConnectJS. This is a conference focusing on JavaScript development and mobile application development.

I will be giving two presentations titled Quick and Easy Development with Node.js and Couchbase Server and Developing For Offline Mobile Experiences.

Update A Nexus Device To Android 6.0 Marshmallow

Last year when Android 5.0 Lollipop came out I didn’t want to wait for an over-the-air (OTA) update so I flashed my Nexus device manually. I wrote about this experience in a previous post. This time I upgraded my Android operating system to the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow release.

We’re going to see how to upgrade a Google Nexus device to use a vanilla version of the Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system.