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Mobile Software Development on Keyvan.TV - #monotouch #monodroid

I was recently interviewed on Keyvan TV regarding mobile software development . We talked a lot about monotouch, mono for android, the general marketplace for mobile, and other assorted things. PS. On a personal note, it was a great honor to be featured.

Posted to More Wally - Wallace B. McClure (Weblog) by wallym on 08-30-2011
Technology and Friends Show #167 - Wally McClure on Mobile #monotouch #monodroid

Back on July 1, 2011, I sat down with Dave Giard and we talked about mobile on Technology and Friends Show #167 .

Posted to More Wally - Wallace B. McClure (Weblog) by wallym on 08-02-2011
How did I get here? My route to Android, iPhone, Windows Phone 7, and interest in Mobile Devices

I get asked all the time how/why I got interested in mobile and jumped on this fairly early. I tend to give half answers because it wasn't just one thing that took me to mobile, but a whole host of separate ivents culminating in a specific event where I wasdoing market research in May/June 2008....

Posted to More Wally - Wallace B. McClure (Weblog) by wallym on 12-27-2010
Thoughts on Windows Phone 7 - Android - iPhone - Blackberry

Now, we're 8-9 months down the road from my last posts on Windows Phone, Google Android, and the general mobile marketplace. Wow, how things have changed. First off, Google Android has really taken off in its number of units in the marketplace. While I wasn't the first person to complain about...

Posted to More Wally - Wallace B. McClure (Weblog) by wallym on 08-30-2010
The iPhone 20 second rule

If you didn't know it, the iPhone has two twenty second rules that developers need to pay attention to: The iPhone has a startup timer. If an application takes longer than 20 seconds to start up, it is killed by the iPhone OS. The iPhone OS will kill any application that is unresponsive for longer...

Posted to More Wally - Wallace B. McClure (Weblog) by wallym on 01-07-2010
One thing I don't like about MonoTouch applications

With .NET, executables are fairly small. Every application shares the .NET Framework, so the applications don’t have their own copy of the framework. MonoTouch is not built into the iPhone. MonoTouch applications must have their own copy of the framework. MonoTouch is compiled into your application....

Posted to More Wally - Wallace B. McClure (Weblog) by wallym on 01-06-2010
UIAlertView - the alert box for the iPhone

There are times when the user needs to be presented with some information or question. MonoTouch has a UIAlertView object. The UIAlertView is instantiated with a set of parameters. On the object instance, the .Show() method is called. For .NET developers, this is similar in concept to the .NET MessageBox...

Posted to More Wally - Wallace B. McClure (Weblog) by wallym on 01-04-2010
Opening another application on the iPhone using NSUrl

The NSUrl class is what allows an application to open other applications within the iPhone OS while passing parameters. The calling sequence is fairly simple. There are two steps to making this call: 1. When the NSUrl class is instantiated, a string representing the URL scheme is called. Note that different...

Posted to More Wally - Wallace B. McClure (Weblog) by wallym on 01-01-2010
UIPicker in the iPhone with MonoTouch

The UIPicker is visually different than the drop down listbox that most .NET developers are familiar, however, it is designed to perform the same type of function. It allows users to select from a fixed set of data isntead of typing in data in a text box. Programming with it is fairly simple. Inherit...

Posted to More Wally - Wallace B. McClure (Weblog) by wallym on 12-31-2009
The Mono / MonoTouch Soft Debugger

Honestly, I thought that it was really cool when the Novell guys put a soft debugger into Mono/MonoTouch so that it is possible to debug an application running on the iPhone Simulator or on the actual device. Basically, its a set of code inside of MonoTouch that will talk back to the debugging device...

Posted to More Wally - Wallace B. McClure (Weblog) by wallym on 12-30-2009

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