Tag: mobile

  • Tutorial – How To Create Swipe Views With Tabs In Android

    Hello Readers I have been making progress on my summarizer app lately. During these past couple of days I implemented a feature which lets the user swipe views as an alternative to having to tap on the tabs. This makes it more easy to swap between tabs. Here’s How You Can Do It Too If…

  • Day 16 & 17 – Learning Android Development

    Day 16 I spent the whole day finishing star-assault. The idea was to implement what was missing from the tutorial. On day 15 I had implemented turning and collision detection between bob and blocks. In total, what follows was what I added to the game: Gravity: Bob now falls down at a constant speed if…

  • Day 14 – Learning Android Development

    Today I reviewed the tutorial  from yesterday. I started adding little stuff to the game, all by myself. I can’t believe how much more I learned by trying to add stuff to the game, than actually reading the tutorial line by line or re-doing it. When you want to add something by yourself, you have to…

  • Day 12 and 13 – Learning Android Development

    I decided to start with game development on android. I will use a free library called libgdx and follow a tutorial on making a little 2D game with it. libgdx is a java library that allows its users to create games on their desktop and then deploy it to Android. The author of the tutorial says that…

  • Day 11 – Learning Android Development

    The tutorials on game programming in java from TheNewBoston didn’t go as smooth as I thought. As a result I was only able to see the first 12 tutorials. Setting up a simple animation loop is very complex compared to the pygame library in python. This is why it’s probably better to make games in Java…