I have mixed feelings about Android Studio, Google’s new IDE for Android development. On the one hand, the official Eclipse-based ADT has always been pretty bad. Performance is terrible, memory consumption is insane, it breaks down all the time, and I have persistent issues that force me to “clean” projects and restart the application dozens […]
Continue reading →The 26th edition of the weekend-long competition Ludum Dare is just wrapping up. The theme this time around was “Minimalism”, and as I had decided to create something for the Oculus Rift, I decided to re-create a scene of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey: the scene where astronaut David Bowman has to rescue Dr. […]
Continue reading →If it’s not obvious by previous posts or some of my posts on Twitter, I’ve been playing with the Unity platform for a while. The idea is to learn enough of it to be able to create a Unity game for Ludum Dare (which, incidentally, will take place again this weekend). My previous Ludum Dare games […]
Continue reading →This video has been making the rounds recently. It is somewhat longer than it could have been, but I still think every web developer should watch it. Loading a web page is a slow affair, especially on mobile devices. Everybody knows that. The important point, explained in the video, is that there are techniques that […]
Continue reading →Facebook has just announced their new mobile initiative on Android, called Facebook Home. After much speculation from the tech press predicting anything from a Facebook phone to just an update to their existing mobile app, the real deal seems to be something in the middle: a mix of new applications that work on top of […]
Continue reading →Since I’ve had my first web server set up – somewhere around the year 2000 – I’ve been running tools to analyse my logs daily and generate statistics of visits such as referrers, browser versions, screen resolution, and other useful data. I have tried several different tools since then, but the one I’ve been using […]
Continue reading →This morning I was thinking to myself, “I wonder if you can create models dynamically in Unity in order to develop a game with procedural assets”. A quick search led me to Unity’s reference page for the Mesh object, and to my surprise, this is the description of the object: A class that allows creating […]
Continue reading →Much has been said about testing your Android applications on several different devices , and several different services exist to test deployment of your application if you want to make sure it runs on certain devices. But in my opinion, nothing beats releasing beta Android applications on Google Play. To illustrate what I mean, a […]
Continue reading →Last weekend was the 25th edition of Ludum Dare, the online 48-hour game development competition. My entry was called Fry Fleshlings Fast, a somewhat constrained effort due to time restrictions (but still a fun effort, of course). I have just published a post-mortem about its development on Ludum Dare’s official blog denoting what went right and […]
Continue reading →It’s time for Android developers to start creating their applications for Android version 4.0 or higher. My own personal and experimental Android applications are seeing a bigger Android 4+ user base than anything else. Kana Mind, for example, supports Android 2.2+ but only 5% of its user base is using this version… 36% is on […]
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