I am very active on Stack Overflow, the Ionic Framework forums, Twitter, and even my own blog. I like helping people and I like seeing that everyone who seeks my help becomes successful in their work. A common thing I see with the people that I help is they are unfamiliar with how to properly troubl...

Job interviews for software engineering and other programming positions can be tough. There are too many things to study, and even then it still might not be enough. Previously I had written about a common Fibonacci number algorithm and finding duplicate values in array. Those skill refreshers were ...

So you’ve released a great mobile app and have had a decent amount of downloads, but no one is rating or reviewing it. Downloads can be increased significantly by having a greater number of ratings. So how do you encourage more downloads in your Ionic Framework Android or iOS mobile application? Tha...

You’ll notice previously I did a post regarding the Fibonacci number, a popular interview question for programming jobs. To keep up with this trend of interview questions, we’re going to look into the different ways of finding duplicates in an array. Finding array duplicates is a good question becau...

Not too long ago I wrote a very popular tutorial for integrating Crosswalk into your Ionic Framework mobile application. Since then, the guys at Ionic released version 1.3.2 of their CLI and it makes the process even easier than I had previously demonstrated. The CLI integration is still beta and th...

If you’re familiar with the material I write on my blog, you’ll probably be confused at why I’m making such a post. Anyone who has been a part of a Computer Science program at a university will probably have dabbled with Fibonacci in their first semester of school. However, many Computer Science gra...

Since starting this blog in July of 2014, I have had an unexpected amount of growth. So much, that a lot of strain has been placed on my virtual private server (VPS). A common issue that has plagued me and many other WordPress users is the awful MySQL crash due to exhausted resources. This is becaus...

I’ve received a few requests from my subscribers for an article regarding embedding videos in their Ionic Framework application. This could be a challenging task for a few reasons. There are known issues with the HTML5 <video> tag for Android. One might also ask how to make the videos responsive for...

I’ve still been doing a lot of fiddling with Express web framework for Node.js. I recently ran into an issue with saving data to sessions because much of the documentation online is outdated and no longer functional. However, I did get it working, and am going to discuss it in this guide. If you’re ...

So you’ve been playing around with Ionic Framework for a while now and have decided that maybe $ionicPopup dialogs are not meeting your needs because they don’t look native enough. As we’ve come to expect, Apache Cordova has a plugin for us to correct this, giving us native device popup dialogs in o...

I work with very large Oracle enterprise databases all the time. Consistently, I find myself trying to sift through schemas in the database to find relationships between tables. When tables aren’t named appropriately and you have a lot of them, this can be a long and painful process if you do it man...

Recently I did an article regarding SQLite as an alternative to local storage in an Ionic Framework application. The article was a guide for using the Apache Cordova SQLite plugin for data management. Since writing that post, a few of my readers asked me how to ship an application with a pre-populat...

The Tinder App recently got a lot of attention, especially the swipe cards are suddenly appearing everywhere. Ionic is already creating a solution for everyone to easily create these kind of cards with HTML5 and Javascript. Therefore, in this tutorial I will show you how to add Tinder-style swipe ca...

There are often times where you would need to copy information from your mobile application to your devices native clipboard. Maybe you are making an address book application and you want to copy a phone number to the clipboard when you click on a contact. Doing this with native code can become a ch...

If you’ve been keeping up with some of my previous posts, you’ll know that I’ve been making an effort to move away from PHP ZendFramework (or PHP in general) to Node.js. Up until mid December 2014, my personal profile website www.nraboy.com has been using PHP ZendFramework 2, and for whatever reason...

A follower of my blog recently came to me asking for help with their Magento API service. If you’re unfamiliar with Magento, it is an Ecommerce solution by eBay that uses Oauth 1.0a to handle API requests. If you’ve been keeping up with my blog you’ll notice I had done a previous post on Oauth 1.0a,...

A while back I wrote an article on how to parse XML using PHP. Since then I’ve slowly been transitioning away from PHP, yet XML continues to be a burden that I can’t get rid of. Not all APIs return JSON so it is the application developers responsibility to handle the XML. Lucky for us there is a con...

If you’ve been keeping up with my work, you’ll remember in 2014 I released an app called OTP Safe for Android and iOS. This was a hybrid application created with Ionic Framework, that manages time-based one-time passwords (TOTP) commonly used for two-factor authentication (2FA). I’m starting 2015 of...

I was recently asked by one of my subscribers if I knew how to upload files from an Android or iOS device to a remote server using Ionic Framework. My initial response was no, but it didn’t stop me from taking a whack at it. Using the AngularJS extension set, ngCordova, with Ionic Framework and the ...

If you develop Apache Cordova applications long enough, you’re eventually going to notice little things that you feel you can improve in the development / deployment lifecycle. Making use of hooks in your Apache Cordova project can yield many great things for your project. The post Hooks With Apache...

It is an expectation of modern mobile applications to have a fancy UI with smooth animations and gesture controls. Users want to be able to drag things, see smooth transitions, popups and other neat UI wizardry. A common UI feature, as found in apps like Gmail, are swipe-able list items. Whether it ...

Lately there has been a lot of buzz about Firebase and now that it has been bought by Google, it is probably only going to get bigger. Firebase has a very thorough datastore API making it very useful for applications that can leverage JavaScript. Now you might be asking yourself, well can’t I use th...

Many times when developing Android applications, you’re doing it to pair with a web server. You’re planning on creating this awesome web service / Android experience, but you aren’t quite ready to publish the web service to the internet. The following will show you how to connect the Genymotion Andr...

I’ve recently been exploring other options when it comes to web frameworks. I come from a PHP ZendFramework background, but since having upgrading to ZendFramework 2, I’ve not been impressed. Since then I’ve been exploring more of Node.js. However, like PHP, web programming often works best with a f...

JavaScript is a forgiving language unlike Java or C#. Because of this, we can’t always trust that our code is correct. I don’t mean that the logic may not be correct, I’m talking about syntax and structure. Lint via Wikipedia: …modern lint checkers are often used to find code that doesn’t correspond...

Because of popular request, I decided to make my entire WordPress blog secured behind an HTTPS connection. In addition to requests, I also read that search engines such as Google reward site owners that have complete sites behind HTTPS. In a previous post I made, I explained how to generate and inst...

A very popular pattern on all mobile platforms is the tabbed interface. This interface is especially popular on iOS where it is encouraged by Apple’s design language over a side menu. It has the advantage that the user can see all of the options available to them whereas a side menu’s options are hi...

Debugging your source code is a critical part of any application development process and Android is no exception. A lot of people post comments or email me asking me to help them with their application that isn’t working. The first thing I try to ask for are the log files. I do this because 90% of t...

Previously I had written a post regarding how to use the Apache Cordova InAppBrowser plugin to launch external URLs in an Ionic Framework application. This previous post was basic and was only enough to get you started. Since then, I’ve been asked a few times how to use the InAppBrowser as the defau...

When coding, it is good practice to reduce duplicating your code as much as possible. When you build a website, multiple pages may be grouped with specific layouts that are used any number of times. You don’t want to duplicate your layout code across these pages. A common thing to do in web design i...