This blog post contains the notes for week 4 of the developer skill sprint focusing on the Language and the RTL to the Rescue

This blog post contains the notes for week 3 of the developer skill sprint focusing on the Parallel Programming Library

Keeping tack of personal health and fitness programs is a central aspect of the Internet of Things. Smart devices, aka Things, gather bioinformatic data from our bodies and from our daily routines. This data is collected and sorted by Connected Apps giving end users and doctors alike a data driven roadmap to provide preventative health behavior, remote monitoring, and diagnosis. In this blog post, find out how Appmethod and the Bluetooth LE component streamlines the integration of the WAHOO Balance Smart Body Scale with a Connected App.

This blog post contains the notes for week 2 of the developer skill sprint focusing on how to Be User Friendly with Taskbar buttons, Jump Lists and More

This blog post contains the notes for week 1 of the developer skill sprint focusing on Modernizing Your VCL Application Look and Feel With Styles

Connectivity is at our fingertips – figuratively and literally. For the first time in history, the human body is being used to interface with a new generation of gadgets and devices. With the invention of motion and gesture control devices like the Myo Gesture Control Armband and the Emotiv Epoc brain computer interface headset, the human body is now able to control everything with the flick of a finger, simple motion or through thought patterns.   In this article, we are going to highlight key new IoT (Internet of Things) devices that developers should consider when developing connected solutions for the home and medical space.    

C++ has had a well-earned reputation for being a powerful, high performance cross platform language. It has also enjoyed great success within embedded systems of all types as C++ is excellent with low level hardware and it is supported on virtually every single operating system. Why then hasn’t it become the de-facto programming language for mobile, cross-platform development?  One of the key reasons is that the creators of Android and iOS selected different primary languages for their app...

  In todays post we will dive a little deeper into the exploration of gesture control as an emerging form of input. Learn how the Myo Gesture Control Armband from Thalmic Labs can be used with Appmethod to create new user experiences with traditional UI/UX components. Specifically, we will take a look at FireFlow, a photo gallery scroller that ships as a demo with Appmethod.   FireFlow, a Demo Photo Gallery FireFlow is a sample demo that illustrates how to create a photo gallery wi...

  Computer-brain interface has been a mainstay of science fiction, but did you know there are devices available today that can use our brainwaves as a computer input. How well does it work? Is it practical? How far away is it from reality? Where does the Brain Computer Interface fit within the Internet of Things?  In this post, we will dive into the future of thought as input for wearable devices with real-world examples and code. Demonstrations will be shown using the Emotiv EPOC hea...

In this post I will cover the top 5 best practices to achieve great mobile user interface and user experience application design.   When designing mobile applications you should use standard interface and experience design patterns that users expect. Navigation across the application should be gesture enabled and flow in a clear and effortless fashion. Do not try and replicate the desktop experience on mobile but rather extend it from a top down fashion. Use responsive design concepts to adopt to the evolving ecosystem of screen sizes and form factors. User interface (UI) is a subset of user experience. If the user experience were a road trip (getting from point A to point B), the UI would be the roads and the scenery. If the roads and the scenery were great, but ultimately didn’t get you where you wanted to go, then the overall experience would be a failure.