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Threadsafe SQLite

One of the main reasons for the thread API I discussed yesterday is a new threadsafe Database API. This new API allows you to wrap

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Easy Thread

Working with threads is usually ranked as one of the least intuitive and painful tasks in programming. This is such an error prone task that

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TIP: Listen on All Radios

Using toggle buttons in touch interfaces is very intuitive for many use cases. We implement them via RadioButton or CheckBox to indicate inclusive or exclusive

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Questions of the Week 50

I’ve been back from the bootcamp this past week and while I have committed many new changes I’m still taking things relatively easy after the

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Fingerprint/TouchID Support

Fingerprint scanners are pretty common in modern hardware both from Apple and some Android vendors. The problem is that the iOS and Android API’s for

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TIP: Use the Native EDT

The bootcamp is winding down and I’m finally back to our usual scheduled posts. I’d like to open with a common practice that isn’t nearly

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Questions of the Week 49

Next week we’ll resume the bootcamp so I might publish one last blog post after this and that’s it for another two weeks. It’s been

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Properties are Amazing

I wrote about properties before but I got a sense most people didn’t understand how amazing they truly are. In this post I would like

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