Google Analytics SDK v4 with libGDX
Introduction Google discourages the use of the legacy Analytics SDK in new projects. Instead the want you to use Android Native Application Tracking as provided by Google Play Services. Some documenta... Read More
AdMob with libGDX
Introduction As of August 1, 2014 Google requires you to implement the Play version of the Mobile ADS SDK in your app. They offer some documentation on how to do this in Android Studio. However, we us... Read More
Google Play Game Services with libGDX
Introduction Android changes, libGDX changes and Google Play Services change really fast. In order to implement Google Play Services in a libGDX Android app I proceeded from the excellent tutorial by ... Read More
Android game: Cave Fizzer
How deep can you penetrate our cave system? Meet the Fizzer in his exploration of the underground world. The concept will probably feel familiar: – Travel as far as you can. – Do not hit t... Read More
Accessing a Dutch HTTP proxy from abroad
While I’m based in Germany, there are several reasons to occasionally surf the web with a Dutch IP address. Since I’m an XS4ALL customer it would seem a convenient solution to use their pr... Read More
Rotate a Texture Animation in libGDX
Using an Animation instance is a common way to create an animated sprite in libGDX. To optimize rendering we apply Textures instead of Sprites. Rotating a Sprite is trivial (with setOrigin and rotate(... Read More
Login and user profile data retrieval with Facebook PHP SDK V4
The Facebook PHP API has been revised dramatically. At the time of this writing it still appears to undergo significant changes so your mileage may vary depending on the revision of the SDK you downlo... Read More
An indeterminate progress indicator on Android
Here’s the indeterminate progress indicator that we use in several apps during asynchronous operations. You may find it useful and we’ll refer to it in future posts. The trivial code check... Read More
Using the Holder pattern
In our discussion of Android ListViews we showed how to reduce inflation costs by using convertView to recycle our row Views. A further optimization would be to reduce the use of findViewById() by app... Read More
Starting an Android Activity containing a MapView takes forever
When an android map activity is started it may take quite a while to be up and running. What is worse, it needs some time to load, which disrupts smooth user interaction when started from a list item,... Read More