This series of tutorials will teach you how to make an endless running style game using the Corona SDK. An endless style running game would be a game like Monster Dash, Canabalt, or NinJump.
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iOS SDK: Working with UIAlertView and UIAlertViewDelegate
In this tutorial you will be introduced to one of the most commonly used Cocoa-Touch classes: UIAlertView. With this class, you can quickly notify users of important or urgent application information. You may also force user feedback by combining the UIAlertView class with the UIAlertViewDelegate protocol. Read on to learn how!
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Android Essentials: Enhancing Your Applications with App Widgets
A great way to improve your application is by providing an app widget to accompany it. App widgets are simple controls can be placed on places like the Home screen, informing the user of important updates within the application. App widgets remind the user you’re your app exists and help encourage them to use the application more often, among other benefits. In this tutorial, learn to create a simple app widget to enhance to the user’s experience in the Tutlist tutorial application.
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Android Fundamentals: IntentService Basics
Today we’d like to take a quick tour of one of the lesser known, but highly useful types of services you might want to use: the IntentService.
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Android Essentials: ListView Item State Management: A “Read Item” Flag
One common feature of “reader”-type applications is keeping track of items that have been read, or previously viewed. This tutorial is going to show you, by way of implementation in an existing application, how one might go about incorporating a read flag feature into a ListView control.
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Android Fundamentals: Database Dates and Sorting
Android uses SQLite technology for its local database. This works quite well. However, occasional quirks exist when compared to a fully featured relational database. One such quirk is that SQLite doesn’t support any sort of date type. Luckily, it does support date functions and is capable of storing dates in numerous formats. This tutorial will provide you with a method for working with dates in the context of adding dates to the “TutList” application database and (finally) showing a list of tutorials, sorted by date.
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Android Fundamentals: Status Bar Notifications
Often times, applications will perform some background operation—maybe while the app is running or maybe triggered on a scheduled alarm. The user won’t know what’s going on, though, unless they are informed of some event. Luckily, Android has an easy notification system that allows applications to display a message in the status bar and provide informative details to the user when something important occurs.
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Android Fundamentals: Scheduling Recurring Tasks
Many applications have a need for regular, background actions to take place. For instance, in the “TutList” application we’ve been building over a recent series of tutorials, the content list is stale until the user initiates a refresh from the options menu. Why can’t the application simply update its data at regular intervals? Well, it can and it should. Let’s implement this new feature right now!
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Android Fundamentals: Downloading Data With Services
The tutorial content of the still-unnamed “TutList” application we’ve been building together is getting stale. The data has been the same for over a month now. It’s time to breathe some life into the application by providing it with a means to read fresh Mobiletuts tutorial data on the fly.
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Android Fundamentals: Properly Loading Data
The UI thread is a bad place for lengthy operations like loading data. You never know how long data will take to load, especially if that data is sourced from a content provider or the network. Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) introduced the concept of Loaders and, in particular, the CursorLoader class that offloads the work of loading data on a thread, and keeps the data persistent during short term activity refresh events, such as an orientation change. We’ll incorporate the Loader as a new feature in our ongoing tutorial series building a yet-to-be-named tutorial reader application.
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