Practical Android

  When dealing with a mobile application, storage is a feature we cannot live without, whether it’s to handle relational data or persistent data in general, which is queried for different operations throughout it’s lifecycle. Most if not all mobile platforms offer SQLite database storage method which consists of a helper class and some method of initialization and querying which are both declared by the programmer. In most cases, it’s just some boilerplate code consisting of declaring table names, column names and types, primary keys, foreign keys.. and all that jazz. But we are discussing cross platform native development here, let’s see what’s what in the area of local storage in Xamarin. Ok, so the classical model of a cross platform application consists of a Core project, which is actually a .Net class library, and a couple of platform specific projects which have a link to the Core project. Each of the platform specific projects have – you guessed correctly, platform specif...

  It’s been couple of months since I’ve had a chance to post here, but it’s been an amazing time for me in terms of adapting new/old technologies for my development skills, and I have a bag full of new knowledge which has been accumulated and is waiting to be put on the blog, So in the coming weeks I’ll start posting a lot of code samples, architectural guidelines and how-to-do’s. In My professional career as a software developer, the first contact I had with OOP was with C#, back in 2007 as part of a course I took for web development which involved mostly ASP.Net, Windows forms and at the time - the diapers of WPF and Silverlight which were the latest buzz by Microsoft along with c# 3.0 and the 2.5 .Net framework. As time passed, I took on Java in order to acquire the skills which will allow me to program for the Android platform, which is my (Native) passion in the last 3 years or so. Developing for Android in Java is really something all java programmers are able to adapt to as...