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Animated splash screen for android in Gideros

( ) — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:01:53 -0500

Here is how you can implement an animated splash screen for Gideros exported Android project. First you need to create a main.xml file with this contents: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <FrameLayout...

Augmented reality using Appcelerator Titanium

( ) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:57:52 -0500

I was always interested in Augmented Reality apps. Since the first time I’ve got a smart phone with GPS and Accelerometer sensors, I’ve been experimenting with them to enhance the usability of apps and games. AR apps go even further...

AppRater for Gideros

( ) — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 09:01:15 -0500

Here is a quick implementation of Appirater in Gideros using Lua, thus it works on both Android and IOS devices. Download Gideros AppRater. You can provide a linkt to rate your IOS and Android version of apps. Basically AppRater...

Gideros Box2d Chains and Elastic Ropes

( ) — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:57:02 -0500

In this example we will try to create chains and elastic ropes in Gideros using Box2D library. So let's start with the easy one - the chains. If you image links in the chain, then they are not elastic and can rotate relatively to each...

AdMob plugin for Android

( ) — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:29:22 -0400

Gideros AdMob Plugin for Android to display and manipulate AdMob ads. You can find example Gideros project, example Android project with plugin source and plugin folder for...

Creating plugins for Android in Gideros

( ) — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 06:19:54 -0400

Hello, so I will try to explain the basics of creating and Android plugin. So basically how this works, is that you call lua methods from your Gideros project, which then underneath call C functions, which through JNI call Java functions. But...

Flurry plugin for Android

( ) — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:45:41 -0400

This is my first attempt on Gideros plugins for Android (hopefully not last). Basically its an analog of Flurry plugin for IOS using same methods as in Gideros documentation. Now you will also be able to use it on Android. You can download...

Using box2d joints in Gideros

( ) — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:05:13 -0400

In this tutorial we will go through joint types available in Gideros Box2d world. If you follow my tutorials you should already be familiar with mouseJoint which is the right way to drag dynamic box2d objects. I'll be using it alot in...

Gideros Unite framework for multiplayer games

( ) — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:21:55 -0400

Gideros Unite framework provides a way to implement Multiplayer games using Gideros Mobile. It uses LuaSocket to establish socket connections and even create server/client instances. It provides the means of device discovery in Local Area...

Gideros - Box2d Slingshot

( ) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:14:36 -0400

In today's tutorial we will create a slingshot mechanism, to launcha a draggable object. As you may have already guessed, let's take a draggable example as a template to start, and modify it, to add slinsghot mechanics. I'm not a...

Titanium Gesture recognition

( ) — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:57:02 -0400

Titanium Gestures class provides a way to define and detect gestures. You can define your own gestures, by providing array of points, that defines shape and provide callback function for each shape. It is also possible to detect gestures from...

Game Dev Story

( ) — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:49:54 -0400

If you've never become completely addicted to a game before, prepare yourself, because Game Dev Story is one big time-sink. But it's also one of the most satisfying little sim games to appear on a mobile platform in quite some...

Score REST API on PHP5 and MySQL

( ) — Thu, 31 May 2012 08:21:47 -0400

This is a simple set up for score REST API for your PHP5 + MySQL server. System handles multiple applications, and multiple tops for same application. It doesn't have an admin panel, so hope you don't mind creating new apps and tops directly from...

QuickTiGame2d for Titanium

( ) — Fri, 11 May 2012 06:15:21 -0400

Titanium was designed to create native apps on multiple platforms, but that doesn’t mean, that one can’t create a game using Titanium. In fact, there are some modules that will ease game development using Titanium Appcelerator. The...

ARBasketball

( ) — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:35:07 -0400

This game might not be as attractive and addictive as the other ones, but it has one great feature to make you want to try it out - it's Augmented Reality. Basically, what you will be doing it throwing basketballs to a 3D basket, which will...

Shadow Cities

( ) — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:40:36 -0400

First I was intrigued by the fact that it is the first location based MMORPG game ever. It was enough to try it out. From the first start the game sets up the mystical mood and provides quests to learn how to play it thoroughly. There are two...

Tim The Timber

( ) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:59:57 -0400

Actually, I'm not a fan of a break out game genre, but this one seemed interesting from the beginning. It took my interest through it's graphics. And when I downloaded and tried it, I was shocked, because I was expecting simple breakout...

Pepi Bath

( ) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:06:19 -0400

Having IOS device and child, meaning there is no way you can get without installing some children apps. And it's really hard to find one to almost 2 year old child. When we tried Pepi Bath, I thought that it was a little too complex for my...

Cover Orange

( ) — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:03:58 -0400

Having a shared family IOS device, meaning everyone will have their own preferences for games and apps to use. But for some reason, every one seem to like Cover Orange game. It's pretty fun and addictive puzzle game, where you need to hide...

Where's my Water

( ) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 04:53:48 -0400

Where's my Water is a great addictive game. Free version took me one evening to complete it only because I couldn't stop playing. Main goal of the game is to dig channels to direct water into specific tube to ensure a crocodile named...

Cut The Rope

( ) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:27:49 -0400

I love puzzle games. But this one I love the most, because it feels as it is puzzle/action game, where you need to not only think, but also react and sometimes in a limited time. I don't know the game I'd love better than this one, so...

Titanium Push Notification without 3rd parity service

( ) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:21:12 -0500

Push notifications is a great way to notify your users about new additions, improvmenets and other action about your app. Using Urban Airship is a great way start, but what if someone wants a free service, or simply doesn't want to rely on...

Any format countdown

( ) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:33:32 -0500

Titanium Countdown class displays (and updates) time left provided by user. Time can be provided in any time units, and they will be recalculated to specified time units. It is possible to specify which units or text will appear in countdown and...

Handling raw accelerometer data in Titanium apps

( ) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:43:35 -0500

Handling accelerometer in real mobile phone might be quite tricky. While in emulator that data is almost always perfect (haven't tried in windows 7 phone emulators, from what I've seen it's pretty decent emulator), the value in real...

Customized progressbar in Titanium

( ) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:54:20 -0500

For now there is a pretty limited options for users to customize progressbar for both IOS and Android platforms. But slider, on the other hand, has pretty advanced customization. As usage of slider and progress bar is pretty similar, we can take...

Choosing picture from gallery or camera

( ) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:00:01 -0500

Yesterday I got my mind blown. I was creating a battle system prototype using Titanium, for one of the games we are working on. And just for fun, I thought I'll add an option to choose picture of your enemy from gallery or shoot the new one...

Storing data in Titanium application

( ) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:16:57 -0500

Appcelerator Titanium has one really great feature that I haven't seen in other SDK. It's called app properties, which allows you to store simple values or objects for application, for example, high score, level where user currently is,...

10 things you should know before starting with IOS development

( ) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:22:04 -0500

Here are some things, that are kind of easy and unuseful piece of information for professional IOS developers, and it may even seem like a baby talk to them. But these are kind of things that took some time to figure out when I first started with...

Responsive web

( ) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:11:24 -0500

There is a new tendency in website development called Responsive web. Its ideology is about adjusting your website to different screen resolutions, including mobile phones, thus making your website mobile friendly. Adjusment is done using...

Save and load data module for Corona SDK

( ) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:44:39 -0500

Here is a dataSaver module for Corona SDK, that allows you to save and load files or separate app properties. app.data is file to store app properties and dataSaver.lua is a class itself. Just include module and store it in a...

Change image on Corona Physics object collision

( ) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:12:03 -0500

When you create newImage object, well basically you create image object, and you can't easily change it. So if you want, for example, change this image on collision, you should use sprites instead. Here is a quick example on how to do...

Corona SDK - Next level, reset level logic

( ) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:01:41 -0500

While developing games, you'll need to switch between levels and probably reset the current one, to let users another try. Here is how you can easily implement this logic to your game. In menu.lua file (or other main file you might have)...

Create pause button for Corona Physics game

( ) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:44:48 -0500

Corona SDK physics engine has built in start, pause and stop function. For game pausing will need two of them. So we simply create two buttons: pause and resume. function scene:createScene( event ) group = self.view --define button...

Corona SDK - Hide body on collision

( ) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:33:53 -0500

By default, you can't perform operations like removing or hiding Box2D object bodies involved in collision inside collision event handler. That's why you can either flag object and hide or remove it on next enter frame event, or simply...

Reading json from file in Corona SDK

( ) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:22:06 -0500

To read json string from file and parse it into table, you need to include json library, that comes with Corona SDK require "json" After that you can use this simple function to read string and parse it: function load( filename ) --...

About Corona SDK

( ) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:03:40 -0500

Corona SDK is so far most stable crossplatform SDK with most rapid development process I've seen so far, even without knowledge of lua language (all applications in Corona SDK are written in lua). This was so far the quickest way for me to...

Using JSON Framework for IOS

( ) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:45:51 -0500

I've read somewhere that IOS 5 have a native JSON parser, but if you aren't creating something specifically for IOS 5, you better use something, that will work on any platform. On of the most popular libraries I ran across is JSON...

Read from file

( ) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:09:06 -0500

In your Xcode project you should have a Resource folder. That's default location, when you're for example adding sprites, etc. You simply provide a filename. But when you want to read information from file, you need to provide full path,...

Using PhoneGap

( ) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:52:14 -0500

PhoneGap is platform, which allows you to create applications using HTML5 as a paltform. It means that you can use everything you know from webdevelopment. HTML, CSS, Javascript, all the frameworks like Jquery, etc. And it's really...

Objective C basics

( ) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:23:41 -0500

Objective-C language was new to me, and I found it's syntax a little more difficult to interpret than other programming languages like C++, JAVA, PHP, etc. So here are some basics of what is what, when developing IOS applications. So...

Installing Cocos2d

( ) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:05:25 -0500

When I started IOS development, I didn't know anything about Objective C, Cocoa API or MacOS itself. But as I read everywhere else, then first thing you need to do is to install Cocos2d framework, which helps a lot with IOS development. It...