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Creo 2.4

The last time we published a blog post was in September 2019. I was in Palo Alto (CA) at that time, and a lot of things happened in the past months. The world is changed due to Coronavirus and there is, even more, a needs to create software faster and

📽Using REST APIs to access a Firebase database from Creo

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📽Using REST APIs to access a Firebase database from Creo

Create an iOS app to authenticate and access a Firebase db, retrieve some data and display them on a table view in minutes.

📽 How to Authenticate Your App to Firebase Using Creo (video)

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📽 How to Authenticate Your App to Firebase Using Creo (video)

Firebase provides a realtime database and backend as a service. The service provides application developers an API that allows application data to be synchronized across clients and stored on Firebase's cloud. Today we learn how to create an app to login to Firebase with email and password from

Say Hello to Creo Community Edition!

Say Hello to Creo Community Edition!

Today is a big day for Creo users. We are happy to announce that we have released Creo Community Edition, free to use and with no time limits.

📽Create A Diary Application in 20 Minutes (video)

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📽Create A Diary Application in 20 Minutes (video)

This time I want to teach you how to create a secret diary application for your iPhone.

Welcome to Creo video-coding sessions

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Welcome to Creo video-coding sessions

In the next few days, I'm going to publish some coding video sessions using Creo on this blog.

How you can build a private photo-sharing app in 30 minutes with Creo

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How you can build a private photo-sharing app in 30 minutes with Creo

Ciao designers and wannabe mobile developers all over the world. Incredibly useful stuff this time. Great—Italian—design, how to use the File Manager to store your files, how to share pictures with one line of code, how to get precisely N pictures in each row using a CollectionView, and much more.

Creo 2.1.6

With just one line of code you can share images, strings, url and data.

Using Creo to make something people want: learning custom views

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Using Creo to make something people want: learning custom views

Starting with this article, I'm going to create a beautiful app with Creo putting together what I learned until now and adding some more cool things like creating a Custom View Template and using the File Manager to store your photos.

How to create a Happiness Journal app in Creo using SQLite

How to create a Happiness Journal app in Creo using SQLite

Sometimes you want to store data locally on your iPhone, and to do that you need a database on your local device. This time we're going to use SQLite to create an app to keep track of your happy moments during the day. We want to use it

Instagram in less than a day using Creo ;)

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Instagram in less than a day using Creo ;)

Our journey in the SelfieApp world is becoming more and more interesting. Until now, we learned: 1. How to take pictures 2. How to apply a saturation filter before shooting 3. How to browse our photos from the iPhone camera roll If you missed my previous articles, and you want

6 minutes to create a cooler SelfieApp with a slider and squarish pictures

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6 minutes to create a cooler SelfieApp with a slider and squarish pictures

It's amazing what you can learn building a simple Selfie application. Our plan for today article is to move a step forward from our last version of the SelfieApp and learn more about: 1. Taking squared pictures and make the Selfie App beautiful 2. Learning how to use

How to work with Camera Roll, TabBar and CreoPlayer (SelfieApp Part 2)

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How to work with Camera Roll, TabBar and CreoPlayer (SelfieApp Part 2)

In a few minutes, you'll learn how to work with new Creo controls and object. This time CameraRoll, CollectionView, TabBar, and custom buttons. We'll use CreoPlayer to demo our app on the iPhone. All that with zero lines of code.

How to create a selfie app with two lines of code

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How to create a selfie app with two lines of code

3, 2, 1 Go! Last time I introduced myself and closed the blog post leaving you with 3 simple tasks: 1. Download Creo free trial 2. Read something about Creo development environment 3. Read something about the Gravity language Now we are ready to create our first iOS application, and

Welcome to Creo by examples

Creo by examples

Welcome to Creo by examples

As a software developer, your first day in a new development environment is like the first day in school in a foreign country. You know more or less how things should work and what they mean. At the same time, you don't understand every concept, and sometimes you

Our Next Goal Is to Help You Learn Creo

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Our Next Goal Is to Help You Learn Creo

In the past months, we improved Creo a lot, continually aiming to make it the development environment of choice for a new breed of iOS developers. Recently we talked to some of you and gathered feedback about the product. I want to say thank you to those who agreed to

Creo 2.1.5

We are really proud to announce the immediate availability of Creo 2.1.5. This version fixes a lot of internal issues (also in the iOS runtime) and adds support for the long requested Apple iOS Simulator. The complete changelog is available in our Version History [https://docs.creolabs.com/

Creo 2.1

At Creolabs we worked really hard in order to add new and exciting functionalities to Creo. This release adds support for some great additions that will really speed up even more the design and development process.

Announcing Creo 2.0.7

Announcing Creo 2.0.7

We are proud to announce that in Creo 2.0.7 you can use ImageFilters to CameraView, applying a real-time filter to a video streaming is now possible with just a few clicks on the Inspector.

Choose the right navigation for your mobile app

Choose the right navigation for your mobile app

Choosing the right navigation path for your mobile app is a fundamental decision that drives your app design and development. A good navigation approach should feel natural and familiar and shouldn’t draw focus away from the main content.

What's new in Creo 2.0.6

What's new in Creo 2.0.6

In Creo 2.0.6 we addresses some bugs and we added tons of very powerful features that I'd like to cover in this post. 1. New RGBBuffer [https://docs.creolabs.com/classes/RGBBuffer.html] class to directly access pixel related information for any Image [https://docs.creolabs.

Building iOS apps made simple?

Building iOS apps made simple?

Creo is a macOS app pitched as one of the simpler iOS development tools delivering fully native app experience. I just couldn’t resist building something to see how it actually works...

An iOS audio recorder in 4 lines of code

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An iOS audio recorder in 4 lines of code

Starting from Creo 2.0.4 [https://creolabs.com/download] a new AudioRecorder [https://docs.creolabs.com/classes/AudioRecorder.html] class has been available. With this class developing an audio recorder is extremely simple. We’ll start this tutorial by adding an AudioRecorder class to the main DesignBoard (an AudioRecorder1

What's new in Creo 2.0.4

What's new in Creo 2.0.4

In Creo 2.0.4 we fixed a lot of issues and we improved several classes. We also introduced new functionalities and new UI improvements based on the feedbacks we received from our users on the official Slack channel [https://join.slack.com/t/creolabs-public/shared_invite/enQtNDI2MzA5NjgyODAxLWYyOTQzZDgxZWZkODYxZDM3ZmRhNWM0N2UxM2EwNDEwMGNjMTdkMDRiMmM2YzNkMTkwMmVhYmQwYWFhYzg1OGU] . 1. Horizontal

Creo 2.0: The exporter

Creo 2.0: The exporter

With Creo we really want to build a tool with no compromises and we really want to change how mobile applications are developed. Our exporter makes no exception. For the first time, designers can send production-ready source code to developers for the final tweaks and customizations. There are some tools