Splash Screen Demo With Sound « More Is Not Always Better. Splash Screen Demo With Sound I did a little experiment to see if I could add sound to my splash screen demo.
I never had done anything with sound in Android but had wanted to try it out for quite some time. It turns out that it was very easy to do. The demo app looks exactly like the previous Splash Screen demo. The only difference is that it nows plays sounds. Here’s what I did: 1. 2. Mp1 = new MediaPlayer (this, R.raw.laser_01); mp1.start (); 3. If (mp1 ! If you are interested in the source code for the demo, here is a link to a download page for it: download Splash with Sounds. In researching this, I came up with some questions that I want to follow up on. When should you use SoundPool and when should you use MediaPlayer? Android en 2012: desarrollando aplicaciones. El auge del desarrollo de aplicaciones Android es imparable.
Cada vez hay más desarrolladores interesados en crear aplicaciones para la plataforma y las ofertas de trabajo se han multiplicado hasta niveles increíbles hace un par de años. Las empresas cada vez se preocupan más por tener presencia en los terminales Android. Hasta hace poco el iPhone era el único que estaba en su mente. Sin duda las aplicaciones Android no son una moda pasajera. Este año 2012 será la explosión del mercado de aplicaciones Android. 20 horas de YouTube para aprender a programar Android. Somos muchos a los que nos encantaría empezar a programar en Android pero no tenemos el tiempo necesario para ir a un curso ni tampoco estamos dispuestos a pagar tanto dinero.
Hoy os ofrecemos una solución que seguramente satisfará a mucha gente: Cursos de Android por youtube. El usuarios changingtheunknown ha recopilado en una lista de reproducción de Youtube nada más ni menos que 200 vídeos de tutoriales para Aprender en Android. Efectivamente, vamos a tener un curso completo dividido en 200 vídeos de entre 4 y 9 minutos de duración que forman un total de 20 horas de tutoriales de programación Android. Los vídeos van seguidos y están en inglés. Entiendo que me preguntéis si hay en castellano, pero ya os aviso: si queréis programar en Android tenéis que saber inglés SI o SI para entender las cosas (y entender la documentación, y saber buscar snippets en stackoverflow…). En definitiva, una oportunidad única para pegar un buen repaso a Android desde cero. List of Videos for Android Application Development.
Make Money on Android – eBook Released! I am happy to announce that my eBook marketing report “Make Money on Android” has been finished!
From now on it is publicly available and can be purchased from my blog! So if you wish you could make over $3000.00 per month on Android Apps this eBook is for you! Update: eBook have been updated with new monetization methods and updated stats on 16.05.2012! With the update a new price has been introduced. Believe me it is worth it! Make Money on Android – is great marketing guide to make real money on free Android applications. Here are first reviews (from the comments below): Althought I first thought too that $20 was way too much , I bought it and I can declare that FOR ME (disclaimer: I repeat: FOR ME) the first advise is being worth the money. 20$ for knowledge about making thousands of dollars is a joke price for me, really.
Thanks to this 30 pages eBook you will learn: Plus I will give you 7 days money back guarantee! Click below to get your copy right now: Android Developer Income Report. A lot of people says that there is no real money in the Android development.
They say that if you want to make money you should write for iPhone, iPad and all other iThings… This is not true! I am not a one of guys that is making thousands of dollars but my income seems to be steady and is still growing. Moreover I am not one of top developers nor any of my apps have been promoted by Android Market. I am just an one among of thousands of Android developers with not to well known apps. And what may be really surprising all my apps are free as Google do not allow developers from my country (Poland) to sell apps via Android Market! So keep in mind these facts: None of my apps has been ever promoted in Top of Android MarketI am providing only free apps (mostly due of Android Market limitations)Even if I would be able to sell apps I would not use it as main income source… (I believe that you still can make more from ads…) I have started to learn Android Development on April 2010.
One game, many frameworks. There’s no doubt 2012 will be the year of the frameworks.
Roger Engelbert in his blog rengelbert.com show us how to do a mobile Frogger game using four different frameworks: Starling, Sparrow, Cocos2D and LibGDX. This is the game involved in the experiment: Use arrow keys to move the frog, or click on the frog controller in the bottom right corner of the game. Here is a brief intro by Roger: I will first explain something of the logic controlling the game.
So these tutorials are not meant to be on how to build a game like Frogger, but how to blitt stuff to the screen. Having said that, I thought I might as well explain enough of the game logic so that you can separate that logic from the actual framework code. The Game Engine The engine manages a series of Screen objects, but displays only one screen at a time. For this example I created two screens, one called a MenuScreen that shows the instructions on how to play the game, and one screen called GameScreen where the actual game runs.