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Implement GridViewFragment on Android

martinlie — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:42:32 +0000

This topic describes how you can easily display your data in a grid view for Android in Crosslight apps. You will learn how to configure GridFragment and create the binding provider for GridFragment. If you haven’t familiar with simple list in Crosslight, please check out Displaying Simple List. It is expected that you have successfully displayed a simple list and created the required View Model before continuing. Learn more.

The sample code is available to download in our Git server here. Feel free to leave any comment or feedback.

Cheers,
Martin Lie

Implement Circular Image on ListView

martinlie — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:19:11 +0000

Nowadays, you can see a lot of mobile apps displaying circular image on list view. This how-to topic shows how you can customize the appearance and presentation of cell template with image in a table view to achieve round corner in iOS, Android and Windows platforms. Learn more.

The sample code is available to download in our Git server here. Feel free to leave any comment or feedback.

Cheers,
Martin Lie

Implement Data Synchronization using Crosslight Enterprise Framework

martinlie — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 09:03:54 +0000

This how-to topic describes how to implement data synchronization using Crosslight Enterprise Framework. There is no doubt that data synchronization has becoming essential requirement in today’s business apps that allows online offline synschronization.

This post guides you how to implement data synchronization by creating a new Crosslight app from the Crosslight Business Template. You will learn how to enable the local data storage feature, configure the synchronization settings, preparing the domain models, and calling the synchronization API to perform two-way data sync. Learn more.

You can download the sample code from our Git server here. Feel free to leave your comment or feedback if any.

Cheers,
Martin Lie

Create Crosslight Business Apps with Local Data Storage (SQLite)

martinlie — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 08:14:18 +0000

This blog post shows you in-depth how to create apps that use SQLite as its local data storage using Crosslight Business Template. You will learn how to configure SQLite for the first time, setting up the domain model through Intersoft Entity Designer and add some simple settings and code to enable SQLite. Learn more.

We have made the sample code available to be downloaded from out Git server here. Feel free to post any comment or feedback.

Cheers,
Martin Lie

Using Crosslight SQLite for Local Data Storage

martinlie — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 09:36:45 +0000

This blog post will discuss topic on how you can use Crosslight SQLite as a local data storage for your apps. Before you start using Crosslight SQLite, it is recommended that you have basic knowledge about data binding and MVVM design pattern. Learn more.

We have created a sample that lets you learn how to create SQLite tables with capability to insert, update and delete the record, use LINQ Query and custom SQL Query and many more. The sample code can be downloaded from our Git server here.

Happy Learning!

Cheers,
Martin Lie

Create Custom Bindable Properties and Binding Adapter

martinlie — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:18:00 +0000

Crosslight includes predefined common bindable properties that work across all platforms such as Text, ImageSource and so on. With extensible architecture built in Crosslight, you can extend or add your own custom bindable properties. This post will guide you how to create custom bindable properties and implement the binding adapter for each platform, including iOS and Android. Learn more.

We have prepared a sample, which shows how to create a bindable property for TextSize that supports two-way data binding to the Android EditText and iOS UITextField control. You can download the sample from our Git Server here.

Enjoy developing!

Cheers,
Martin Lie

Crosslight Introduces Support for Xamarin Unified API

Jimmy Petrus — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 03:18:33 +0000

In the recent Evolve 2014 Xamarin announced 64 bit support and unified API for iOS and and Mac development which greatly improves code sharing between the two platforms. For the iOS platform, Xamarin introduces a new assembly called Xamarin.iOS which contains the new unified API among many other enhancements. More importantly, apps built with Xamarin.iOS will automatically support both 32 bit and 64 bit processor architecture which is required for new apps submission or app updates to Apple Store starting February 1st 2015.

Due to major fundamental changes, Xamarin introduced a new Xamarin.iOS assembly which will replace the monotouch assembly. This means that every library built on monotouch will need to be migrated to adhere to the native unified type and compiled against the new Xamarin.iOS. But no worries, we’ve got you covered! Just in time, we have upgraded every Crosslight iOS component to support the new Xamarin.iOS. Read on.

Introducing Crosslight iOS Unified Assemblies

We’re pleased to be the among the first Xamarin Enterprise partners to support the new unified Xamarin.iOS runtime. We have made available a set of new assemblies that leverage the unified runtime — see the list below.

Intersoft.Crosslight.iOS
Intersoft.Crosslight.Data.SQLite.iOS
Intersoft.Crosslight.Services.PushNotification.iOS
Intersoft.Crosslight.Services.Reporting.iOS
Intersoft.Crosslight.Services.Social.iOS
Intersoft.Crosslight.UI.iOS

These new assemblies can be found in a folder called “iOS.Unified” within the bin folder. The classic Crosslight iOS assemblies remain as is (in the bin folder), so you can continue working with existing projects that still use the classic Crosslight iOS assemblies.

It is worth to note that we will continue to support and maintain the classic Crosslight iOS components. However, new iOS components in the future will be solely based on the unified API to comply with the upcoming Apple’s 64 bit requirements.

Migration Guide

And here’s the best part — there are no code changes needed in your existing Crosslight iOS projects. That’s made possible because your Crosslight iOS projects mostly contain only lightweight wrapper classes to describe the view. Your real assets — the user interaction and business logic — remain untouched in the Shared project which will continue to work flawlessly, thanks to the strong emphasize on separation-of-concern (SoC) and architectural design pattern in Crosslight.

In fact, the only thing you need to do is simply upgrading your iOS project to the new Unified iOS project type with Project Migration tool available in Xamarin Studio and change the Crosslight assembly references. See the following screenshot.

Once the migration has completed, you will notice that your iOS project will now reference the new Xamarin.iOS assembly, not monotouch any longer. Finally, remove the existing Crosslight iOS assemblies, and add the new Crosslight Unified assemblies from the bin\iOS.Unified folder.

Note: If you do not see the Migrate menu in Xamarin Studio, please update Xamarin Studio and Xamarin.iOS to the latest version currently available in Beta channel.

Download Now

Crosslight 3.1 update can now be downloaded from our Git server here. In addition to various stability improvements, this release also includes the Crosslight iOS Unified assemblies which you can find in the bin\iOS.Unified folder. More details on the change log can be found in Crosslight 3.1 release notes. Not sure how to apply Crosslight update? Check out our update guide.

We highly recommend you to migrate your projects as early as possible so your apps are ready when the new Apple Store requirements take affect on February 1st. Xamarin will officially release the stable Unified iOS on early January, and so do we.

If you’d like to test drive the unified runtime prior to migrating your projects, please check out the migrated Crosslight iOS samples in feature/ios-unified branch. Some of the migrated samples include: MvvmSamples, DataSamples, DataSamplesDrawer, DrawerSamples, MyInventory, and MyInventory_WebApi. The rest of samples will be migrated completely on early January, in time with the final release.

For questions, issues report and feedback, please post them in Crosslight Community Forum.

Best,
Jimmy

Intersoft Studio 2014 R2 Delivers 500 Components for Mobile, RIA, and Web Development

Martin Lie — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:56:45 +0000

We are proud to announce the release of our next ultimate development toolset, Premier Studio 2014 R2. In this release, we continue delivering the next generation of our powerful cross-platform mobile toolset, Crosslight 3. Our Silverlight lineups also received numerous enhancements as well as our ASP.NET lineups. That’s not all. We also ship even better tooling support for cross-platform mobile development on both Mac and Windows. These exciting new features will definitely shave months off your development time table. Let’s tour some of the key highlights in this release.

Crosslight 3: Deliver Stunning UI Components with Full iOS 8 Support

Crosslight 3 is now power-packed with gorgeous UI components that are beautifully designed with highly customizable components, such as map views for showing different route directions, carousel view for displaying multiple images in the form of paged slider view, a keyboard input view for messaging apps, a calendar month view to easily present list of events and many more. Furthermore, this release includes full support for iOS 8 and smart layout mechanism for iPhone 6 Plus. You can expect all iOS services and user interface components to work flawlessly with minimal or no code changes in your apps.

Improved Tooling Support for Mac and Windows

Good news for Mac and Windows users! Crosslight 3 also now provides full tooling support for both Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio. You can now build Crosslight apps with either Xamarin Studio on the Mac or Visual Studio on Windows. Simply say, you don’t have to worry on building mobile apps with your favorite IDE as each of them supports many useful features such as Crosslight Project Wizard, Entity designers extension, Crosslight item templates and more.

Moreover, this release also adds even better tooling support for Visual Studio, allowing you to perform direct search for the class documentation on a specific Crosslight class. Crosslight Developer Center will automatically display the searching information.

In addition, Crosslight 3 also adds navigation drawer template for Windows 8 which enable you to create powerful Crosslight apps with navigation drawer interface across four mobile platforms, iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1.

Powerful Form Builder

Crosslight 3 gives significant upgrades to its Form Builder to achieve new scenarios easily. It now adds support for new editor types, such as radio button editor, checkbox list and child list view. Radio button editor is great for allowing single selection inputs for multiple choices. Displaying child list view will allow form builder to support even more business scenarios, such as displaying list of warehouses, branches, categories and many more is now possible.

Exciting Features for iOS and Android

This release brings more features for both iOS and Android. Crosslight 3 adds new APIs for iOS to enable new ways of interacting with the app. Furthermore, features like in-line editing, displaying custom edit actions using swipe gesture and many more will surely exciting for you to build more intuitive mobile apps. Learn more about iOS new features.

Not only iOS, Crosslight 3 also adds various improvements towards the Android platform. Features like drastic scrolling performance, MVVM support for MapViews and ImageButton and auto-complete EditText will obviously add some values to your mobile apps development. Learn More about Android new features.

Silverlight Lineups: Retina-ready with Modern Themes

In this release, Silverlight lineups receive significant enhancements for its display rendering quality. With retina-ready support, Silverlight controls are scaled beautifully across multiple screen sized and densities. They also now equipped with modern themes which share the same guidelines and visual aesthetic designed by Intersoft’s design experts. Furthermore, this release also delivers continuous improvements to the overall stability and reliability of the ClientUI components and frameworks.

Major Milestone in WebGrid 9

The most advanced data grid component for ASP.NET, the WebGrid 9, marks a major milestone in which you can perform various data operations reliably and seamlessly. In this release, new features include searching by text in value list, perform various data operations using JavaScript API, better copy and pasting support and direct print support.

Download Today

Visit our Crosslight Developer Center to get more information about Crosslight architecture, walkthroughs, samples as well as Crosslight roadmap. We just want to ensure that you always get the best “cutting-edge” toolset for your development. Download your free trial here and experience building cross-platform mobile, enterprise and web apps with less effort.

Cheers,
Martin Lie