One of the most powerful data visualization frameworks on the web is D3.js. The visualizations can be simple or really complex. If you're curious for more examples, the D3.js visualizaiton gallery has some real amazing work. With such a powerful and flexible framework comes the tradeoff of being familiar with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG, etc. Despite needing a basic knowledge of all those topics, there…

It doesn't matter if you're loading a configuration file, data set or even something obtained from a website to use as a data source, there is a performance tradeoff you'll encounter because of the processing time that occurs while parsing JSON or XML. This blog post covers how well loading and reading JSON & XML files using native APIs perform on iOS & Android.

To test…

The IGOverlayView is a powerful and extremely flexible control for displaying any type of view that will overlay another view, with or without animation, when shown or dismissed. A total of 12 overlay animations are included, with 2 of these animation types allowing for custom animations limited by your imagination.

A toast message is an brief auto-expiring information…

The IGLabel is an iOS control for creating rich text labels. It works similarly to the generic UILabel and applies styles to text in a similar fashion that is done when using attributed strings. It is also based on Core Text to boost performance and functionality over the generic UILabel.

Tappable content is series of characters, words or sentences that allow interaction…

Beautiful Soup is a powerful Python library for extracting data from XML and HTML files. It helps format & organize the confusing XML/HTML structure to present it with an easily traversed Python object. With only a few lines of code you can easily extract information from most websites or files. This blog post will barely scratch the surface of what's possible with BeautifulSoup, be sure to visit the…

The idea of using a honeypot to learn about potential attackers came to me while chatting with a friend that had exposed his SSH port to log into while away from home. He had mentioned that Chinese IPs had been attempting to gain access. These attacks reminded me of when broadband internet was introduced and there was quite a few firewall software apps protecting internet users. In these…

Side menus are a common UI pattern found in iOS apps. With the release of NucliOS 2014 Volume 2, we included a side menu control that makes it simple to add a side menu to any view. This post walks the basics of creating a side menu with this latest release of NucliOS.

The IGSideMenuView is a control that consists of a contentView that overlays a configured menu on the left or right…

The 2014 Volume 2 release of NucliOS is packed full of new controls and features to help you easily create stunning apps using Xcode or Xamarin.iOS. Without further ado, the following are the new controls and updates included with this new release.

Our feature rich IGCalendarView was updated for 2014 Volume 2 with added functionality for customizing the appointment color.

When designing an app that makes use of multiple view controllers it may become necessary to pass data back and forth between the view controllers. This common occurance will be covered in this blog post by demonstrating passing data to the next view controller as well as passing data back to the previous view controller.

To pass data forward to…

With the release of NucliOS 2014 Volume 1 we've included a flow layout control (IGFlowLayoutView). This control allows you to easily create a dynamically sized list of items that can be scroll horizontal or vertically, similar to the UICollectionView. Like any other Infragistics control, this powerful flow layout can have its style fully customized, cells reordered or even resized.

With the recent release of NucliOS 2014 Volume 1 we've added an iOS control that can render 12 different barcode types. The graphic below shows all of the currently supported types.

Creating a barcode with IGBarcodeView is super simple. You create an instance of IGBarcodeView like any other view, and then set the value to render.

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CGRect barcodeRect = CGRectMake(0, 0, 300…

Having the right set of tools can take your development quality to the next level. This article provides you with my personal current top 10 apps to use for Mac and iOS development in 2014.

Simply the best cross platform developer tool on the market. Xamarin Studio can be used to create Android, iOS, Mac & Windows apps. (Mac & Windows apps must be created in their respective…

The IGProgressView that comes with the NucliOS controls is an easy to use and extremely flexible control. It's unique design allows for many different progress visualizations, including custom shapes all in one control. This post will cover the many different visual possibilities of the IGProgressView to help you create stunning apps.

The #1 annotation shown shows the default shape of standard…