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Unity: Making a simple audio visualization

DimasTheDriver — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:34:18 +0000

Another Unity programming tutorial. This time, featuring how to create a simple audio visualization using the AudioSource.GetSpectrumData() method. Read more...

Unity: Creating GUI transitions

DimasTheDriver — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:52:13 +0000

This Unity3D scripting tutorial shows how to create a simple GUI transition using a 4x4 Matrix, a Vector3 and the SmoothStep() method. As an example, it explains how to create a horizontal transition between two GUI elements. A sample project is available at the end of the post. Read more...

Unity: Animated texture from image sequence – Part 2

DimasTheDriver — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:42:25 +0000

This Unity post series explains how to read a sequence of images as an animated texture. This is the second and last part, showing how to create a script that uses less memory but more processing power than the previous one featured on the first post. Read more...

Unity: Animated texture from image sequence – Part 1

DimasTheDriver — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:42:30 +0000

This Unity post series explains how to read a sequence of images as an animated texture. The first part shows what are the necessary requirements to make the animation script work. Read more...

Android: Creating a two color LED notification

DimasTheDriver — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:56:54 +0000

This Android programming post explains how to make the color of the notification LED change back and forth, using an AsyncTask, a Notification object and the notification manager. An example project is available at the end of the post. Read more...

Android: Obtaining the current orientation using a BroadcastReceiver

DimasTheDriver — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:00:00 +0000

This Android tutorial explains how to obtain the current screen orientation using a BroadcastReceiver. Also, it shows how to set the correct IntentFilter that checks for orientation changes. An example project is available at the end of the post. Read more...

Android: Creating a WebView dialog

DimasTheDriver — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:56:32 +0000

This Android programming tutorial explains how to create a custom dialog that contains a WebView that can render any website. Not only that, but it also explains how to load a specific CSS file to correctly render the web page in the WebView. Read more...

Android: how to create a loading screen – Part 3

DimasTheDriver — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:44:48 +0000

Third and final post of the series that shows the details of creating a loading screen that displays the progress of a background process. The code featured in this tutorial uses a AsyncTask subclass to execute code in a background thread, just like the first post of the series. However, this final article explains how to use a customized loading screen inflated from a layout XML file, instead of relying on an object of the ProgressDialog class. Read more...

Android: how to create a loading screen – Part 2

DimasTheDriver — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:40:52 +0000

Second post of the series that will show the details of creating a loading screen that displays the progress of a background process. This tutorial recreates the same loading screen as the previous post, however, this time, it uses Thread and Handler objects to do the job. Read more...

Android: how to create a loading screen – Part 1

DimasTheDriver — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:33:16 +0000

This is the first post of a series that will show the details of creating a loading screen that displays the progress of a background process. In this first tutorial, how to create a simple loading screen using a ProgressDialog object and the AsyncTask class is going to be explained. Read more...