I’ve been searching for a good VOIP solution for the Oculus Quest. I wanted something that would work cross-platform and that could scale well. UE4 had a Vivox implementation built-in so I decided to check […]
If you are worried about people hacking your ShiVa based game then obfuscation is a good place to start. Obfuscation is very simple to implement in your Android project and is a good starting point […]
TOP SECRET EMPIRE PERSONNEL ONLY You’ve done it! You’ve finally found the droids you were looking for. But hey, wait a minute, they don’t even power on?!? How are you supposed to re-purpose them for […]
My brother and I have been working on a game for the upcoming OUYA console. We got a little burnt out on a particular design issue and needed a breather, a small fun project to […]
What is this? This is an open source project that I’ve started to help ShiVa developers get the latest/greatest Android SDK implementations. The goal for this project is to be a single Android project that […]
Sometimes you encounter issues on Android that seem so blatantly simple, you can’t imagine that you are the first person to have hit them. This seemed like a simple case where my TextView items were […]
I recently received a Sony Smartwatch as part of Sony’s promotion. I haven’t been this excited about a watch since I was rocking my Casio Calculator Watch back in 2nd grade.
This article covers the basics of exported Android ShiVa projects. If you are trying to integrate Java or C libraries, for instance the ScoreLoop API, the following information could come in handy. I had to […]
As we are narrowing in on the release of our game, we turned our attention on the game performance. Our low end target is an Android HTC Inspire, mid-range is an HP Pre Plus and […]
Many Android devices have an LED next to the camera lens that can be used as a flash. I’ve been doing some research on the so-called Torch mode of this LED. Torch mode simply turns […]
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