Xamarin announced something awesome yesterday. Because we love seeing indie games succeed, Xamarin wants to support indie game developers all over the world in bringing their games to billions of mobile gamers. We want every indie game developer to enjoy the power of C# and Visual Studio, so we have an […]
One of the many requests I see from customers of Xamarin.Android is the ability to “run a script” after the package has been built and signed, or do some process before the build process. Allot of people end up trying to use the CustomCommands which are available in the IDE to […]
Xamarin recently published a interview with George Banfill from LinkNode on their Augmented Reality product, you can see the full interview here. Since then I’ve had a number of requests from people wanting to know how to do this using MonoGame and Xamarin.Android. Believe it or not its simpler than […]
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 […]