Working with UIRefreshControl
When Loren Brichter introduced the idea of “pull to refresh” in Tweetie 2 a few years ago, it wasn’t long before developers started to adopt this ingenious and intuitive concept. Even though Twitter...
View ArticleCreate a 3D Page Folding Animation: Page Sketch & Spine Fold Effect
This two part mini-series will teach you how to create an impressive page-folding effect with Core Animation. In this installment, you’ll first learn how to create a sketch pad view and then how to...
View ArticleCreate a 3D Page Folding Animation: Polishing the Page Fold
This two part mini-series will teach you how to create an impressive page-folding effect with Core Animation. In this installment, you’ll learn the steps necessary to polish the page fold created...
View ArticleBest of Tuts+ in January 2013
Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to...
View ArticleBuild a Multiplayer Minesweeper Game: Server-Side Setup
This two-part mini-series will teach you how to create a multiplayer game called Minesweeper Flags. In this tutorial, you will learn how to implement the server side of the application, the database,...
View ArticleBuild a Multiplayer Minesweeper Game: Client-Side Creation
This is the second installment of the Minesweeper game mini-series. In this tutorial, you will learn how to fully implement the client side of the application. We will use a native iOS application that...
View ArticleiOS 6 and the Social Framework: Twitter Requests
This tutorial will teach you how to use the iOS 6 SDK and the Social Framework to load dynamic content from Twitter. To do so, I’ll teach you how to build a Twitter profile generating application. Read...
View ArticleAndroid SDK: Receiving Data from the Send Intent
On the Android platform, the Intent system allows users to share content between apps. You can send and receive multiple types of data on Android but in this tutorial we will implement receiving either...
View ArticleiOS Quick Tip: Create a Dynamic Action Sheet
Welcome to this entry-level quick tip about working with action sheets. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a simple action sheet dynamically using content from an array. This technique will...
View ArticleCreate a Hundreds-Like Game – Interface Creation
In this tutorial series, you’ll learn how to create a game like the popular Hundreds. The objective of the game is to reach 100 points without the circles touching while you raise the score. Read...
View ArticleCreate a Hundreds-Like Game – Adding Interaction
This is the second installment in our Corona SDK Hundreds game tutorial. In today’s tutorial, we’ll add to our interface and the game interaction. Read on!Where We Left Off. . .Please be sure to check...
View ArticleAndroid SDK: Creating a Simple Tween Animation
The Android platform facilitates three different types of animation you can define in your application resources: property, tween and frame. In this tutorial, we will create a simple tween animation...
View ArticleWindows Phone: Connecting with Facebook
In this tutorial, we will talk about how to interact with the Facebook API, and all the tools you need in order to connect with it. Specifically, the app that we are going to make will be able to...
View ArticleAndroid SDK Quick Tip: Creating Frame Animations
In this Quick Tip article, we will run through the necessary steps required to implement a frame animation in an Android application.Of the three types of animation you can implement in Android apps,...
View ArticleiOS SDK: Previewing and Opening Documents
Sandboxing on iOS makes the platform much more secure and this ultimately benefits every user of the platform. However, because of the strict rules inherent to sandboxing, sharing data between...
View ArticleBlackBerry: Working with XML
XML is one of the most commonly used data-interchange formats on the web. With the proliferation of smartphones, it has become a common requirement to parse and display XML documents on mobile devices....
View ArticleAndroid SDK: Creating a Simple Property Animation
With Android you can include various types of animation in your apps. In this tutorial we will create a basic property animation using Android’s Object Animator and Value Animator classes. The result...
View ArticleiOS 6 SDK: Displaying App Store Products In-App
Have you ever had the need to send a customer from your iOS application to the App Store? Maybe you wanted her to rate your application in the App Store or you just wanted to promote one of your other...
View ArticleBest of Tuts+ in February 2013
Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to...
View ArticleCreate a Bubble Popping Game – Tuts+ Premium
In this tutorial series, you’ll learn how to create a bubble popping game. The objective of the game is to pop the required bubbles using a single tap. Read on!Tutorial Preview Get the Full Series!This...
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