How to Upload a Xamarin.Forms App To the App Store
We’ve written a few Xamarin.Forms tutorials on the HangZone blog lately. Maybe you’ve even made a Xamarin.Forms app of your own! It’s easy to deploy these apps directly to your …
A Programming Demonstration of Frame Rules in Super Mario Bros.
If you’ve ever spent any time on Twitch, you’re likely familiar with speed running. Essentially, gamers try to complete video games as quickly as possible. Often aided by glitches and …
How To Make A Custom EntryCell in Xamarin.Forms
Xamarin.Forms is an excellent cross-platform tool for enterprise apps that don’t require a lot of platform specific functionality. These sort of apps tend to have a lot of tableviews for displaying …
How To Fill A XAML Rectangle with Multiple Colors
We usually write about iOS and Android on the HangZone blog, but legend has it that there are some mobile devices out in the wild that run Windows. These unicorns …
Spelldom Final Thoughts
As we announced earlier, our virtual world of Spelldom finally closed its doors this month. It’s been almost three years since we launched back in 2015. We’ve all spelled a …
How to Create a Stream of Colorful Bubbles using a Blend Overlay in Swift
As a developer, it’s usually helpful to take a quantitative view of things. Colors are no different. Most of us learned in school that you can mix the primary colors—blue, …
How to Make a Timer App that Stores Sound and Vibration Settings in UserDefaults
People are very particular about sound when it comes to their mobile experience. A great music track can help to immerse a player in a mobile game. Well placed sound …
How to Display Five Day Forecasts in our Weather App
Longtime readers of the HangZone blog will know exactly what the current temperature is, thanks to our blog post on how to call an external weather API. Unfortunately, they have …
How to Build A Shaking Game for iPhone
For years, I’ve wanted to make an app that focuses entirely on shakes. I just couldn’t think of any reasonable idea that warranted that sort of user interaction. That is …
How to Build an iOS Weather App with an External API
When you’re building an app, it’s often necessary to retrieve data from an external API. Perhaps you’re making the next great sports app, and you need to retrieve updated scores. …