Building enterprise apps will almost certainly involves data access. Crosslight aims to be the holistic solution you need to build enterprise mobile apps quickly and easily. Therefore, in this release, Crosslight 2 ships with powerful data access that supports the latest Microsoft techonlogies such as WebAPI 2 and [...]
Read MoreCrosslight 1 marks a great start for developers jumping into cross-platform mobile development. Built solid grounds, the MVVM pattern, Crosslight paves the way for extensible, maintainable, scalable, testable, and making your code highly reusable to use on four platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Windows [...]
Read MoreIf you are iOS users, you might already familiar with the Mail app. When new messages arrived, notice that the new items are inserted smoothly with beautiful animation. The implementation for such insertion is in deed challenging since it needs to take account the actual [...]
Read MoreIn my previous blog post, I’ve covered how to create a new business app using the Crosslight Project Wizard. Today, I would like to share how to handle push notifications in Crosslight apps using the new Unified Push Notification Services introduced in recent release. This video [...]
Read MoreSince the inception of Crosslight last year, we have seen a number of approaches which attempt to address cross-platform development, particularly on the native mobile platforms. We have received frequently asked questions regarding the best practices for cross-platform mobile development, and what would be the [...]
Read MoreLast week, we released the first update for Crosslight 2 which includes enhancements and stability improvements. One of the noteworthy improvements is better support for the iOS navigation drawer control, particularly when used in conjunction with other containers such as tab bar and collection view. The Android components are [...]
Read MoreWhen building applications, I always encourage the team in-charge, to look up and apply the appropriate design patterns for the application. In our latest release (Crosslight 2), we introduced several new services such as RestClient, SQLite, EntityContextProvider, EntityContainer, etc, enabling you to easily create data [...]
Read MoreIn this new v2 release, the Crosslight Project Wizard now sports a powerful business app template that will greatly accelerate your mobile development experience. The business template leverages the Intersoft App Framework, comprehensive use of the RestClient with the repository pattern for streamlined data retrieval, [...]
Read MoreUpdate; For those of you who missed the webinar, we have uploaded a recording at our YouTube channel. Xamarin has done a great job of introducing Android and iOS to the C# world. Working closely with Xamarin, we have taken cross-platform mobile development to the [...]
Read MoreWe have posted another video tutorial to help you better understand how screen navigation works in Crosslight apps. In this video we covered the tabbed navigation and the most popular navigation pattern seen in mobile apps nowadays, the navigation drawer. This video will highlight the [...]
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