So far we put all the code in one file. In previous example if we wanted to add more balls we would have to add several lines of code for every ball we add – like creating new bitmap, setting new position, anchor etc. Even the functions
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Tag: mobile
Gideros Mobile Tutorial 5: Events
So far we only displayed some graphics on the screen, we even animated (not real animation though, just rotation of one bitmap) it but there was no user interaction at all. We had one event in Tutorial 4 but it was not really explained in details what it does.
Events and addEventListener
With events we handle
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Gideros Mobile Tutorial 3: Shapes
It’s nice to have something else on the screen than just text. Let’s try to draw some shapes. I will leave out step-by-step explanation on how to add files to projects, how to start Gideros Player etc because this was covered in previous tutorials.
Drawing Shapes
You can draw primitive shapes with Gideros on the
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Gideros Mobile Tutorial 2: “Hello World”
Hello World
Every tutorial starts with “Hello World” and who am I to break this tradition? 🙂 Please keep in mind that I will not be teaching Lua language, concepts of Objects, functions etc. I am assuming that you are a developer who knows at least one language and have a basic understanding of how
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Gideros Mobile Tutorial 1: Installation and interface
Install Gideros Mobile
This is fairly simple: go to Gideros Mobile website and download SDK then run setup. It’s just few “Next” clicks. After you are done it is best to go to their registration form and register for free. This way you will be able to export and build
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Gideros Mobile Tutorial : Mobile Game Development
Why am I learning Mobile Game Development?
I always enjoyed making games on C64 and Amiga (AMOS Professional was great!) when I was a kid. Platformers and turn-based RPG games. It is now different time and smartphone games are all the rage. I always wanted to try making some simple mobile game but the first
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Google Sync Turned Off on my Android! How do I turn on Google Sync?
Yesterday I noticed that all my Google services were not being synced on my Nexus 7 (Android 4.2.2) anymore. Emails were not automatically downloaded, Calendar,Chrome, contacts etc were not updating. On top of that I was getting weird “Sync was unsuccessful” (or something like that) messages on my PC’s browser. Sure enough – sync was
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Fix the “no connection” in your Google Play / Market with date change
There are several reasons why you can get “No connection / Retry” error message in your Google Play or Market. Some are really a connection, wifi or 3G related and some aren’t. There is another reason that might give you this message and it is not really related to connection. This happened to me when
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