So in one of my previous blog posts we covered how to scale your game for multiple screen resolutions using the matrix parameter in the SpriteBatch. Like all good problems that was just one solution or many, and since then things have moved on a bit. While that technique is […]
So as you may have noticed I’ve been playing about allot with OpenGL and android recently and I started to see some very weird behaviour. The normal activity life cycle states that when the lock screen is enabled, the activity will be Paused, then Stopped. This seemed to be the behaviour […]
In my previous post we looked at how to modify the ScreenManager class to support multiple resolutions. This works fine but what we also need is a way to scale the inputs from the Mouse or TouchScreen so that they operate at the same virtual resolution as the game does. We […]
In my last post we looked at using ETC1 compressed textures on the Xamarin Android platform. In that case we just used the texture and some fancy shader magic to fake transparency. In this article we’ll how we can split the alpha channel out to a separate file which we […]
When developing for iOS or Windows Phone you don’t really need to take into account different screen resolutions. Yes the iPhone and iPad do scale things differently but on the iPad you provide some special content which will allow the system to scale you game and still get it to […]
So …. supporting compressed textures on android is a right pain. There are a number of different graphics chips in play and they all support different texture compression formats, not very helpful. The only common format that is supported by all devices is the ETC1 format (ETC2 is GLES 3.0 […]
So you have a great android project you are working on. It might be a game or an app it doesn’t matter, the key thing is you have a ton of Assets you want to include. Not Resources, i.e stuff you find in the resources folder like layout/values etc, but […]