Use CCMenuItemSprite and CCMenu in iPhone to create menu. call this function to set up the menu for your home page in your iPhone game or you can change this code directly to ANDROID and it will work. Make sure you have all the images mentioned in the above example. This menu will appear on… Read More »
Below is a simple function to implement this.
Hi all… In this tutorial I will show you how to add links in a menu in Adobe AIR/ FLEX. It is really simple. Just add a normal menu item and on the click handler for menu items match the label and navigate to the URL, that’s all. Check out this example. Change the mx:Application… Read More »
Many of our application reqiures sending data from one intent to another. This is done by putting data into one intent using putExtras() and getting it in the other intent using the getExtras() which matches the string value. However you can pass string, boolean, integer etc between intents. For passing data between intents you need… Read More »
Hi all…. We all need to know which key is pressed in an application up on which we may need to take an action. For example if the user presses “Ctrl + s” we know he want to save. So for that we need to listen to keyBoard events. For this we use the keyBoard… Read More »
The following code helps you to invoke a phone call in ANDROID without any user interaction. This code uses intent to start the activity. You know that intent can be used to start another acitivty from with in an application. Dialing a number is done using this code… and Calling number using
This sample code comes handy when you have to check that an application is already installed in your ANDROID Phone. Call the below function appInstalledOrNot() with the package name of the app installed on the ANDROID Device as a string parameter. This function returns true if the app is installed otherwise returns false.
Hi all…. In this tutorial I will teach you how to make use of Gestures in ANDROID and make your own application. Follow the below steps exactly to get an idea of how to use gestures. 1. Make a gesture Library. 2. Add your own gestures into it. 3. Export it to your applications and… Read More »
This simple example makes your activity full screen by hiding the Title-Bar and gives more space for your application. ;
Hi all, In this tutorial I will show you how to get the information about all the applications installed in your ANDROID phone. What you have to do is create a ANDROID project inside the package pack.GetAllInstalledApplications amd name the java file “GetAllInstalledApplicationsExample.java” and copy the following code into it. Here the “getPackageManager().getInstalledPackages(0);” gets information… Read More »
Hi, If you are a game developer then you will always need a sequence of images to be animated & the best way to do it is via sprite sheet animations. But how can a sprite sheet be made? Suppose you have a sequence of images of any animations, how will you convert it into… Read More »
This is a very tricky part and initially i was also ran in to strange problems . Before uploading to android market you must do the following steps. Create a Certificate Signing your application apk Finally Zip align the signed apk First the application you created should be converted to apk format. For this if… Read More »
This code works for all API Levels. The below code works for API level 5 or Higher…..
This is a normal error when you import some project into eclipse. I will show you how to solve this First try cleaning the project from project->Clean. If this didn’t work, then try these Follow these steps 1. Go to Project » Properties » Java Build Path » Libraries and remove all except the “Android… Read More »
Hi, Suppose you have a sprite sheet of the desired animation you want. But how will you use that sprite sheet animation in your program using cocos2D? That’s simple. See the following code first. Note : But how to make a sprite sheet? That topic can be found here. Making of sprite sheets from individual… Read More »
Hi, In order to verify an email address you have entered is valid or not using Objective C, use the following code. – (BOOL) checkYourMail: (NSString *) myEmail{ NSString *checkMail= @”[A-Z0-9a-z._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+.[A-Za-z]{2,4}”; NSPredicate *matchMail = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@”Matching %@”, checkMail]; return [matchMail evaluateWithObject:myEmail]; } 🙂
Hi, If you want to Pause an instance of NSSound which is being played in Cocoa Mac, use the following line of code. [yourSound pause]; ‘yourSound’ is the NSSound Object. Similarlyl for resuming NSSound in cocoa Mac [yourSound resume];
This is a really simple example illustrating gestures in ANDROID. You Know that everything you do with your hand inside the phone is a gesture like SingleTap, doubleTap etc. Here is a quick illustration of this. For this the activity must implement OnGestureListener. The GestureDetector detects the gestures. Let’s look at the example. The layout… Read More »
Hi all,In this tutorial I will show you how to open browser from an ANDROID application. This is done through intents. You know that intents are used to invoke other activities. So we here invoke the browser activity. The following code will open the default browser in your ANDROID phone. This is the manifest file… Read More »
Hi, In certain situations you may need to make visible or invisible certain sprites. But how to set a sprite visible and invisible in Cocos2D? See the following Cocos2D code. //Set the sprite’s visible value to 1 to make it visible yourSprite.visible = 1; //Set the sprite’s visible value to 0 to make it invisible… Read More »
Hi, There may arise some situations where you need to change the z value of a particular sprite during an action in Cocos2D. So how can you do that? See the following lines of code. CCSprite *sample= [CCSprite spriteWithFile:@”trialImage.png”]; sample.position = ccp(160,240); [self addChild:sample z:1]; /* Some of your actions goes here! */ [self reorderChild:sample… Read More »
Hi, Want to invoke an action when a text field (UITextField) is clicked using Objective C? Use the following. [myTextField addTarget:self action:@selector(textFieldTouched:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchDown]; – (void) textFieldTouched:(id)sender { //Here goes your actions on TextField Clicked } 🙂
Hi, Sometimes you may need to create some buttons to the View using Objective C code rather than using Interface Builder. Here is how you can do that easily and efficiently. //You can create button with type. Here I am creating a Custom Button UIButton *myButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom]; //Then what? Give action to be… Read More »
For showing a number of animations sequentially in Cocos2D we use the CCSequence. CCSequence can accept a number of actions as parameters which will be executed in sequence , ie one after another. Here is a sample code to so this. /* This action will scale my_sprite */ id scaleTo = [CCScaleTo actionWithDuration:4 scale:1.5]; /*This… Read More »