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It’s been a while since I’ve written anything here, so I thought I’d just share a short update. I find myself struggling to find the time to blog, while going to work, the gym, programming and so on. On top of that the sun is showing up, and the weather is to good not to be outside. My first app in the app store (“Parker Gratis“) has now been released a little over a month! I decided not to advertise to much about it, seeing as I had an update that I wanted to get in before the masses started to download it. When the update was approved I published a link to the app on Facebook, and the number of downloads doubled within a day! So far there have been a few entries of parking locations, but I see that the interest increases. I also got a question on when the Android version comes out, so that is my current working project. Who knew the Android emulator could cause so much trouble? More on that later. ...

This Friday I released my first iOS app! It’s called “Parker gratis” (“Park for free”), and it is an app for the Norwegian market for now. [ A friend of me came up with the idea for the app. We were talking one day when he said that it would be nice to have an app where you could locate free parking spots nearby your location. I liked the thought of the idea, and decided to go on to create the app. I did some research on the app store, and found that there were some apps like this, but not for the Norwegian market. ...

Googling for this subject, localization in Xamarin, I really couldn’t find anything that really explained how to do it. Also Xamarin does not have any guides on how to do this, but there are a few posts in the forum in this regard. So this is my contribution to the world; a short write-up on how to translate your app to any language, the easy way. First I need to mention that there are different ways this is done for iOS, Android and Windows Phone. While reading on this topic I noticed that there is a way to do this with Xamarin Forms, however since I haven’t used that yet, this post will focus on localization for iOS in Xamarin. ...

Like I mentioned in my post, my goals for 2015, I was starting this year with a course on Coursera. The course is now reaching its end, and I want to tell you a bit about it. The course is a six-week course on cryptography, hosted on Coursera, and led by Dan Boneh, a professor at Stanford University. Dan Boneh is a professor in computer science and electrical engineering and his main research focus is applied cryptography and computer security. ...

I mentioned in an earlier post that I have chosen to use Xamarin for cross-platform development. In this post I will write a bit why I chose Xamarin. My way towards app development started with the introduction of Windows 8. With the store Microsoft presented (and the lack of apps for it) I saw an opportunity to create some apps for the Windows platform. The first (and only one) app I created was a remote controller for Onkyo receivers, specially created for the Microsoft Surface. This was programmed using C# and XAML. Moving on I found that I still were using an iPhone myself. Seeing as I still have some ideas for apps I personally want to use, I saw the need to change programming platform. ...