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6 Hours Of Android Game Development In Under 2 Minutes – Time Lapse Video
Jul 20th
If you’re like me, you’re probably pretty into your Android device. You may have even toyed around with the idea of possibly taking a summer course at your local community college to make an app of your own, with dreams of one day publishing to the Android Market and “hitting it big.” Angry Birds “big.”
If you’ve ever been curious to see what exactly would go into developing an Android game from start to finish and get a peek into the life of Android game development, today is your lucky day! Since you nor I, have 6 hours of free time on our hands, developer Hunter Davis took the time of making this handy time lapse video of him producing an Android game app — only crammed into 1 and half minutes of video and to the music of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee.” (Watch on YouTube and enable annotations for the developers running commentary).
[Via HunterDavis]
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Yongzh’s Emulators Now Free at SlideMe, Get Them Before Two Weeks’ Time
Jul 16th
We understand Google’s need to take Yongzh’s popular game emulators off the Android market. They have since moved to SlideMe and, through the good graces of whatever higher being you believe in, made the applications free… for the most part. The N64 emulator will still run you $4, but we can’t imagine many of you are playing that anyway – just too many damn buttons! But if you’re interested in the others and want to give them a go on your phone (hint hint, Xperia PLAY owners), head over to SlideMe now. Note: this promotion is only running for two weeks, so you may want to jump on this as soon as possible. Yongzh states he’s doing this to make paid customers from the Android market happy who have paid for the apps before Google removed them from the market. [Reddit]
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Now is Not the Time for Texts on the Now Network, Sprint Users Experiencing SMS Outages
Jul 11th
If no one is responding to your text messages today and you happen to be a Sprint subscriber, it’s not because they are ignoring you. The carrier is reporting SMS outages across their network and has taken to Twitter to reassure the masses that they are well aware of the problem and are hard at work on a fix. If on the other hand no one is responding to your text messages and you don’t happen to be a Sprint user, then yes, they are most likely ignoring you. What a pity.
[via Engadget]
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NASA Releases Full-Fledged Android App in Time for STS-135 Launch, Not Much Better Than Alternatives
Jul 8th
Waiting for a full application for NASA that’ll let you keep up with those shuttle launches? They’ve finally released a full-fledged Android application. It’s a welcome addition to their stable of applications as their iOS offerings have been something of much desire for Android users. Here’s a look at the full list of features you’ll be in store for upon downloading:
Features:
– Thousands of images from NASA IOTD, APOD and NASAImages.org
– On demand NASA Videos from around the agency
– Current NASA Mission Information
– Launch Information & Countdown clocks
– Current Visible Passes for the International Space Station (ISS)
– ISS and Earth Orbiting Satellite Tracker
– NASA Twitter Feeds from around the agency
– News and Features from the NASA topic areas
– Facebook® Connect and Integrated Twitter™ client for easy sharing
– Live Streaming of NASA TV
– NASA TV and What’s On Your TV schedules
– Map and links to all of the NASA centers
– Featured content section
But even with all of that, there may be better experiences to be had. I downloaded this application myself and was met with a world of trouble. The first boot got me to the splash page, but none of the buttons to access any of the content showed up. Upon rebooting the app, I was met with said buttons, although they had no images. Still, I tried tapping one and got a force close upon doing so.
Not only that, but the application held my device’s responsiveness hostage long after force-closing. A third try got everything loaded and responsive, but it proceeded to tell me that I had no internet connection although I’m sitting on a strong WiFi signal. Backing out of the app and going in again, I was met with the force closing and unresponsiveness issues again.
More than that, users in the market are saying the video portion of the application just kicks you to NASA’s site in the browser anyway, meaning you will need flash to use the most desirable function of this application. They suggested an alternative: NASA TV.
While it doesn’t give you nearly as much information and content as the official NASA App, it won’t outright deny you the ability to use its meager set of goods compared to the buggy and poorly-coded experience the official offering provides. Unfortunately, recent updates to NASA TV now requires flash player. You can try the official NASA app here, but do give NASA TV a try if that gives you as many issues as it gave me.
Note: NASA is scheduled to launch Space Shuttle Atlantis, a shuttle carrying logistics tools and supplies for the International Space Station, at 11:26am Eastern. This will be the Space Shuttle program’s last launch. PS: Two Nexus S devices will be on board themselves carrying out special missions on the final space shuttle launch.
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Nintendo To Finally Enter The App Store For The 1st Time!
Jul 6th
After many years of resistance, Nintendo has relented and will be making their first-ever contribution to the App Store with an app called Pokemon Say Tap – a game that’s unavailable on the 3DS or the Wii, and exclusive to the App Store.
The game is unique from most of Nintendo’s other Pokemon-related offerings. Rather than it being one of Nintendo’s traditional RPGs, Pokemon Say Tap will be a rhythm-based game that has you tapping on Pokemon cards in sync with the game’s music.
One odd aspect of this is that the game doesn’t officially have Nintendo as the publisher, but rather a Nintendo affiliate that controls all of the Pokemon-related licenses and marketing (though Nintendo still had to approve the app.)
This is notable for several reasons – first, it’s the first Pokemon title released on non-Nintendo hardware, and also because Nintendo has traditionally carried a firm stance against releasing games through the App Store.
Could this be Nintendo’s way of testing the App Store waters without assuming much risk? Could we see more NIntendo games coming to iOS in the future? Personally, I’m getting sick of all the cheap Mario clones, and thirst for the real experience!
Your thoughts? Sound off in the comments!
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