UITextField’s Limitation UITextField has a property called secureTextEntry that hides the characters as you type them (except for the last one, which is hidden after a brief moment). This is useful for things like a password field. However, you will notice that the keyboard icon that lets you choose languages is absent. This means that [...]
Java has a very useful class called the BlockingQueue. With a blocking queue, the dequeue operation will block until there is something to be dequeued. A blocking queue is very handy and can be used to solve the classic producer-consumer problem. I needed a similar class in Objective-C, but I could not find one. The [...]
Our game is out in the app store! Please check it out here. You can also visit the game’s Web Site.
Here is how to symbolicate iOS crash reports. Make sure the .app or .ipa and the .dSYM files are the same ones created at the time of the compilation. Step 1 If you have an .app file Place the .app file and the .dSYM file into a folder. If you have an .ipa file Rename [...]
Max Texture Size of iOS Devices When loading OpenGL textures (or sprites, sprite sheets in Cocos2d), the max size for 1024 x 1024 2048 x 2048 4096 x 4096 iPhone 2giPhone 3g iPhone 3gsiPhone 4iPad iPhone 4siPad 2iPad 3
Prerequisites This is the final part to a four part series about simulating a soft body physics in Box2d. Before continuing, you should read and understand the following tutorials. 1. Quick Tip: Mixing OpenGL and Cocos2d (Triangle Fan) 2. Soft Body Physics with Box2d and Cocos2d Part 1/4 3. Soft Body Physics with Box2d and [...]
Prerequisites This is the third part to a four part series about simulating a soft body physics in Box2d. Before continuing, you should read and understand the following tutorials. 1. Quick Tip: Mixing OpenGL and Cocos2d (Triangle Fan) 2. Soft Body Physics with Box2d and Cocos2d Part 1/4 3. Soft Body Physics with Box2d and [...]
Prerequisites This is the second part to a four part series about simulating a soft body physics in Box2d. Before continuing, you should read and understand the following two tutorials. 1. Quick Tip: Mixing OpenGL and Cocos2d (Triangle Fan) 2. Soft Body Physics with Box2d and Cocos2d Part 1/4 We will be using OpenGL to [...]
Rigid Body and Soft Body Physics This is the first of a 4 part series which will show you how to simulate a simple soft body physics object in Box2d. We will be attempting to draw a fully texture mapped, squishy object. In part 1, I will be constructing the physics object. Box2d is a [...]
Cocos2d and OpenGL Cocos2d hides most of the complexities of OpenGL, but every now and then you will be forced to write some custom OpenGL code. You can override the draw method of CCNode to perform your custom OpenGL drawing. You don’t have to write the code for scaling, rotating or translating inside the draw [...]