A simple class for playing music and sound effects for android
I think that android has a few problems in the area of sound/music playback. After much digging, the only way that I have found to play back music and sound effects is android.media.MediaPlayer. I...
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Working with textures in android's OpenGL/ES.
As you may recall, I use textures to draw the moon backdrop for my android application, monolithandroid. Originally, I only used one texture and I used some code from Ed Burnette's forthcoming book...
View ArticleVideo for monolithandroid 1.0.3c alpha
I decided to put together a video to show graphics, gameplay and music for my game, monolithandroid. Comments are welcome!
View ArticleSummer development
Summer (especially in Greece) is really counterproductive. While the android engineers are working hard to put the finishing touches on our beloved operating system, I am going to the beach every day,...
View ArticleYet another SDK update
I just returned from my summer holidays and found a brand new android SDK (0.9beta) available for download. I downloaded it, and found that it introduces a lot of changes. Packages were renamed and...
View ArticleSome thoughts on google android as a gaming platform
With the launch of the first android device (T-Mobile G1) just around the corner, I would like to share with you a few thoughts regarding the viability of the android platform for gaming...
View ArticleMonolithAndroid needs you!
That is, I need beta testers to try the game out on a real hardware device like the T-Mobile G1. Yesterday, I published MonolithAndroid version 1.0.0 on the android market. Because I live in Greece, I...
View ArticleAnother monolithandroid beta is out
I just released another monolithandroid beta (monolithandroid1.0.1beta.apk). It seems that most of the previous beta 1.0.0 problems were related to 3 things.First, the prepareAsync call used in media...
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monolithandroid 1.0.2 beta version update
A new apk is up for grabs. I am referring to the monolithandroid 1.0.2 beta which can be found at http://code.google.com/p/monolithandroid/downloads/list The new apk uses the...
View ArticleMonolithandroid 1.0.3 beta release
The release frenzy continues with the release of monolithandroid 1.0.3 beta apk. This release corrects the texture loading problem of the previous 1.0.2 beta release. The problem manifested itself as...
View ArticleMonolithAndroid 1.0.4 beta is out
It' s been almost two weeks since I released an updated version of MonolithAndroid. But now version 1.0.4 beta is out! I've corrected a few bugs and added some features but there are still some...
View ArticleAndroid 3D graphics and SurfaceView
If you want to use OpenGL/ES, you have to use a SurfaceView class. The problem is that there are various parameters for the SurfaceView class. This, for example may work fine in the...
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How to display a license agreement on your android application.
It is usually good practice to present the user with a license agreement the first time it uses an app. You can show the user a preferably short text with the license agreement. A license agreement...
View ArticleMonolithAndroid renamed to Robotic Space Rock
Today, I received an email from google asking me to rename the game I published for free in the android market. The game is called MonolithAndroid. Was called, actually, because from now on, it shall...
View ArticleA class for playing music and sound effects revisited
A while back, I published a class that could be used for playing music and sound effects. That class used the android.media.MediaPlayer class and was developed against a pre 1.0 android SDK version....
View ArticleRobotic Space Rock 1.0.8 beta released!
I just released Robotic Space Rock 1.0.8 beta on the android market. Here's the changelog:1. Added easy mode. Now the screen spins in Normal and Expert Difficulty. The screen does not move in Easy...
View ArticleSome lessons learned from the android market
Sometime in December, I released a game I wrote, Robotic Space Rock (RSR for short) in the android market. This lead to a small stream of emails from angry users, claiming that the app I published was...
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Robotic Space Rock and other games fell victims of the DMCA
Today, I received a notification from google stating:This is a notification that the application, Robotic Space Rock with package ID org.teacake.monolith.apk has been removed from Android Market due to...
View ArticleNew! Improved! The 1.5 android SDK is here.
The android 1.5 SDK (based on the notorious cupcake code branch) is here and it is what the first release of the SDK should have been. Support for sound recording and playback through buffer...
View ArticleRobotic Space Rock 1.0.10 for android 1.5 (cupcake)
Since the release of the android 1.5 SDK, I wanted to update the code of RSR to use the 1.5 SDK. It seems that as far as openGL/ES is concerned, programming is greatly simplified by the introduction of...
View ArticleCan N900 and Maemo save nokia?
I absolutely love android, don't get me wrong but strong competition is a good thing. And android's only solid competition seems to be the one coming from Apple. Even though Nokia practically owns over...
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A groovebox using Arduino uno (part 1 of N)
Hello,it's been a while since I last wrote on this blog. The previous blog entry dates back to 2009. Wow, that was six years ago... In the meantime a lot of things happened. As a citizen of a crisis...
View ArticleA groovebox using Arduino uno (part 2 of N). Choosing the appropriate libraries.
In the last installment I introduced the Arduino uno groovebox concept. In order to be able to realize the design we need to use some libraries in order to perform the required tasks. Let me say that...
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A messenger program for the micro:bit
Use 2 or more microbits to send messages to one another. Use A and B keys to select letters, press both A and B keys to select a letter, and select '>' character and press both A and B keys to send...
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