MonoTouch.Info - Entries tagged with Mike Bluestein
MonoTouch Sample - BabySmash for the iPhone built with MonoTouch - iBabySmash
Scott Hanselman has an application called BabySmash that comes in very useful if you have young children. During presentations he has shown BabySmash on a number of devices (BabySmash is available on codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/babysmash). Mike Bluestein has now made a BabySmash for the iPhone and dubbed it iBabySmash :) and best of all he has made the source available on github: http://github.com/mikebluestein/iBabySmash. From his blog post: The example shows how to generate various geometric...
MonoTouch App - Congress111
Here are some screenshots of a new Congressional iPhone app I made called Congress111. It provides easy access to members of the United States Congress. Thanks to the great data and api’s provided by Sunlight labs and Govtrack.us that made this possible. The app is free and you can get it from the app store here.
MonoTouch App - ProdRecall - By Mike Bluestein
Mike Bluestein has a MonoTouch iPhone App up on the App Store. ProdRecall provides easy access to various US Consumer Product Safety Commission data feeds for recalled products. The link directs you to the app within iTunes.
MonoTouch Article - Sending Mail from an iPhone App with Monotouch
Mike Bluestein writes a quick article on his blog showing you how you can send email on the iPhone from within your application using the MFMailComposeViewController in the MonoTouch.MessageUI namespace.
MonoTouch Sample - A consumer product recall application using data from Data.gov
Mike Bluestein creates a sample consumer product recall application using data from the data.gov website after he heard about the plethora of government data sets that are available on there. It’s a pretty straight-forward tab controller application with a fast scrolling technique he showed in an earlier post. It shows product recalls sorted by date across several categories.
MonoTouch Article - Using MPMusicPlayerController and MPMediaPickerController to play music from your library
Mike Bluestein writes an article (with code sample) about the MPMusicPlayerController and MPMediaPickerController. These controllers let you can interact with your iPod library on your iPhone. You can select and play music (podcasts, etc) using these classes and the associated MPMediaPickerControllerDelegate without leaving your application (actually the music plays in the background just like the iPod app). The short demo app will open the MPMediaPickerController modally to allow selection of a song.
MonoTouch Article - Fast Scrolling a UITableView in Monotouch
Mike Bluestein writes a blog post about a port he did of a fast scrolling example done in Objective-C. This shows you how you can enable fast scrolling in your applications (the main thing to note is CustomTableViewCell.DrawContentView). He also provides a link to the source.
MonoTouch Article - A Quick Look at the Monotouch iPhone Debugger
Mike Bluestein writes a quick entry covering the new debugger in MonoTouch 1.2 and provides a link to where you can get further information.
MonoTouch Article - Setting an image background on a UITableView
Mike Bluestein writes a blog entry detailing how to set a background image on a UITableView so that the background doesn't scroll with the table view.
Monotouch Article - Using the Google Data API in your iPhone application
Mike writes a blog post that demonstrates one of the advantages of using MonoTouch. He shows you how you can use the Google Data API in your iPhone application to create a calendar application named gCal. This article also shows the use of the HttpUtility class in System.Web. If you are interested in re-using existing libraries then this article is worth a read.