Marmalade SDK news – Marmalade 5.1.8 now available for download

Down with the dreaded flu right now so just a few quick blogs for now. I find it amazing and cool just at how often Marmalade update their SDK. I’m also ultra excited about the impending 5.2 release, lots of cool new stuff due including native UI. I’m hoping to… Read more“Marmalade SDK news – Marmalade 5.1.8 now available for download”

Marmalade SDK Tutorial – CIwGameSprite – Creating a Robust Sprite Class

This tutorial is part of the Marmalade SDK tutorials collection. To see the tutorials index click here Well, another busy day and as usual I have too much to do and there are only 24 hours in a day (I could do with coding and blogging on a ship travelling… Read more“Marmalade SDK Tutorial – CIwGameSprite – Creating a Robust Sprite Class”

General Programming Tutorials – Beautiful Classes

Welcome to my first blog on general programming techniques and object oriented software design patterns, part of my general programming series . I’m sharing these programming techniques and software design patterns with you in the hopes that it will enable you to write more readable, functional, re-usable and extensible code, saving you… Read more“General Programming Tutorials – Beautiful Classes”

The Big List of Android App Stores – Where to sell and what to avoid

This list has been replaced by a new and updated list that I now host on my app and game marketing blog at Free Games Bandit Welcome fellow Android developers! So you wrote the latest smash hit Android game or app but want to know where do you sell it?… Read more“The Big List of Android App Stores – Where to sell and what to avoid”

Marmalade SDK Tutorial – Dealing with files and the file system

This tutorial is part of the Marmalade SDK tutorials collection. To see the tutorials index click here This evening we are going to cover dealing with files and the file system in a cross platform manner using the Marmalade SDK. Note that there is no associated code with this tutorial as… Read more“Marmalade SDK Tutorial – Dealing with files and the file system”

Marmalade SDK Tutorial – Quick and easy audio and music using s3eAudio and IwSound

This tutorial is part of the Marmalade SDK tutorials collection. To see the tutorials index click here Today we are going to cover playing sound and music the very quick and very easy way using the Marmalade SDK. As usual if you just want the associated article source code then you… Read more“Marmalade SDK Tutorial – Quick and easy audio and music using s3eAudio and IwSound”

Marmalade SDK Tutorial – Marmalade’s resource management system

This tutorial is part of the Marmalade SDK tutorials collection. To see the tutorials index click here Well, its Saturday evening and instead of being slumped up against a bar talking nonsense and singing songs of old bloody coding battles with my fellow drunks, I’m sat here writing Tutorials to educate… Read more“Marmalade SDK Tutorial – Marmalade’s resource management system”

Marmalade SDK Tutorial – Time and Timers

This tutorial is part of the Marmalade SDK tutorials collection. To see the tutorials index click here A little bit rushed today, so please forgive and point out any mistakes that I’ve made. In today’s tutorial we are going to cover time and timers. As usual if you just want the associated… Read more“Marmalade SDK Tutorial – Time and Timers”

Android and iOS Market share – Who’s ruling the roust!

I recently came across this great article on techcrunch and thought it a worth while mention to you budding game and app developers. According to this article Android now has 41.8% of the US market (up a staggering 5.8% on last quarter), whilst Apple’s iOS has a very respectable 27%… Read more“Android and iOS Market share – Who’s ruling the roust!”