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Version: 2025

Specific features of iPhone/iPad applications
Developing an application for iPhone/iPad
The development of an iPhone/iPad application is performed in 2 steps:
Compiling a WINDEV Mobile project in Xcode
When the WINDEV Mobile project for iPhone/iPad is generated on the development computer, the generated files must be transferred onto a Mac in order to be compiled...
Generating an iOS application
Several steps must be performed to develop an iPhone/iPad application:
fListResource (Function)
Lists the resources integrated to the application.
Non-maximized windows in iOS
A non-maximized window can occupy a section of the screen only...
Signature of iOS applications
Signing an application is mandatory from Xcode 8...
Speech synthesis in the mobile applications
The phones can talk!...
Managing contacts (mobile devices)
In your mobile applications, you can directly manage the contacts on your mobile device (Android, iPhone, iPad, etc.).
MacOS - Developing an application in Catalyst mode
Apple has recently released an SDK to natively compile iOS applications for MacOS...
Action Bar of a window
Action Bars replace the title bar of a window and display different types of information...
fExtractResource (Function)
Extracts a resource from the application into a physical device location.
Overloading a WLanguage function or using a WLanguage function in an SQL query
WLanguage includes the "WL" keyword......
HAdd (Function)
Adds: the record found in memory into the data file (query or view). the record found...
Language (Property)
The Language property is used to get and change the language used.
Email (Property)
The Email property is used to get and change an email address.
5. HFSQL Client/Server
A WINDEV Mobile application can also use an HFSQL database in Client/Server mode....
WLanguage properties of Internal Window controls
List of WLanguage properties of Internal Window controls...
GesturePointerType (Function)
Returns the type of pointer used on the device: finger, mouse or stylus.
fAttribute (Example)
Usage example of the fAttribute function
NFC: Transferring data
NFC (Near Field Communication) is a wireless communication technology at short range and high...
Array (Type of variable)
An array is a structured type that is used to group a set of elements of the same type...
RETURN statement
The RETURN statement is used to exit the current event, process or procedure and return a result...
TableSearch (Function)
Performs a search in: a Table control, a TreeView Table control, a table displayed...
HTransactionCancel (Function)
If a transaction is in progress, cancels all the operations performed on the data files...
The Button control
The Button control allows the user or the Web user to run a specific action with a simple click......
Source (Property)
The Source property is used to get and change the source of an element.
geoTrackingEnable (Function)
Enables the management of location tracking in a WINDEV Mobile application.
gFontStrikeout (Function)
Builds a sequence of characters used to specify whether the text that follows the call...
BeaconStopBackgroundDetection (Function)
Stops one or more Beacon detections in the background.
EmailCheckAddress (Function)
Checks the validity of an email address.
rssEnclosure (Type of variable)
The rssEnclosure type is used to describe and handle the attachment of an entry of RSS stream...
ScreenToSource (Function)
Automatically initializes: the values of a data file's items in memory with the values...
DeleteAll (Function)
Deletes all the elements: from a one-dimensional or two-dimensional WLanguage array....
SocketConnectSSL (Function)
Used to establish a secure connection to an SSL server.
Cookie (Type of variable)
The Cookie type is used to handle the cookies transmitted in the HTTP requests.
NFC constants
List of constants used by the NFC functions...