HowTo

These are some how-to documents that explain how to get some things done with MonoTouch.

Animation:

• Using CoreAnimation to display a ticker.
• Animate Rotating a UILabel 

Camera:

• Capturing images from the camera and Augmented Reality HowTo. 

Core Location

• MonoTouch and the iPhone: The GPS and Compass Functions

Data Access

• Basic data access with Vici CoolStorage

Device:

• Check the battery level.
• Use different views depending on the device orientation. 
• Detect the Hardware type 
• Registering custom Url handlers. 
• Launch your apps with a specific simulator 

Email

• Send an email from inside your app 

Entitlements:

• Add entitlements to your application.

Files:

• Where to Store Files
• Bundle files from your project in the application.

GameKit

• Bluetooth networking with GameKit

Google:

• Use Google Analytics to track your application usage. 

Graphics

• Drawing with Core Graphics 

Image

• Add an image, video or audio file to your project
• Get a UIImage as a byte array. 
• Rotate an Image
• Overlay / Composite two Images
• Setting an image background on a UITableView
• Round the corners of an image 

Interop:

• Consuming 3rd Party ObjC Libraries 
• Cross Compiling and Interopping with Open Source C libraries. 
• Checking the Encryption Flag in a Monotouch App 

Keyboard:

• Get a notification for when the keyboard appears.
• Dismiss the keyboard.
• Editing decimal numbers with UITextField 

Network:

• Bonjour with MonoTouch
• Change the network busy status indicator.
• Consume a WebService.

Performance:

• Visualize the Performance cost of using transparency.

Pinch Media:

• Using Pinch Media Analytics.

Push Notifications:

• Building push servers can be done using: apns-sharp 
• Sample MonoTouch Program illustrating how to use them.

Sound:

• Play a sound or Alert
• Recording sound from iPhone microphone 
• Using Flite Libraries to generate Text-To-Speech  

User Interface:

• Creating a new view with Interface Builder and referring it from MainWindow 
• Creating controls programatically.
• Use threads and asynchronous methods with threads. 
• Adding a UITextField to a UIAlertView 
• Using UIScrollView in code 

Video:

• Playback a video
• Capturing video images 

Web View

• Adding Local Content

WebServices:

• Using a webservice 
• Using WCF