Interactivity and Occasional Intrigue with Sam Keene
The differentiating feature of Daydream from other head locked VR systems on the market is its handheld controller. As a developer, there are a lot of cool tricks you can do with the controller to create a delightful experience and help your app really stand out. There’s the superhero effect: presenting wrist locked UI with the … Continue reading Build a Vive / Tilt Brush Style Controller in Daydream
Yesterday Unity announced native support for the Daydream platform. This is great news for developers for several reasons: It taps into the massive development community that Unity has. Any Unity developer is now by default also a Daydream developer. Unity already has a rich ecosystem of talented game devs, application devs and artists. I’m excited for … Continue reading Unity Announces Native Daydream Support
I’ve been wanting to make a cool dynamic 2D water effect for a while now. There are a lot of code examples out there for other platforms: Android, HTML 5 and JavaScript, but i was unable to find any example for iOS. So I spent the afternoon putting this together, download the Xcode project from … Continue reading 2D Dynamic Water Effect for iOS
Making a custom keyboard in iOS 8 is extremely easy, if you think otherwise you’re a dinosaur! Currently, as of Xcode 6 Beta 6, there’s very little documentation and examples, but that doesn’t mean it’s hard. I spent the better half of an afternoon banging my head against a desk until I realized how simple it … Continue reading iOS 8 Custom Keyboards – In Two Steps
Although awards aren’t everything, it’s nice to be recognized for hard work in an industry that sometimes feels like a meat grinder. So I’m super happy that one of the projects I worked on in the last twelve months took out two major wards at Cannes in two categories that I specialize in: Gold in … Continue reading Gold and Bronze Cannes Lion Award Wins
A shortened version of this post was originally published on the RGA Tech Blog One of the more interesting features to be released as a part of iOS7 was the Multipeer Connectivity framework. The framework allows for the creation of mesh networks through communication between multiple devices in close proximity without having to be connected … Continue reading Mesh Networks in iOS 7
Mesh networks have been causing a buzz in the tech media lately. I wrote this blog post for the RGA tech blog to explain the technical aspects of how they work in iOS 7: http://techblog.rga.com/mesh-networks-in-ios7
This post was originally published on the RGA Tech Blog In Part I of our iBeacon series my colleague Andy Hawkes introduced the concept of iBeacons. My team and I have also been playing around with the creative possibilities of this new technology and testing its technical limitations. We’ve been working with at least one … Continue reading iBeacons v Geofences
The ability to detect whether a user has entered a specific geographic location is a useful feature that was added to iOS in version 4. There are several aspects to creating a monitored region (geofence) that I’m going to go over in a series of tutorials. In this tut we create a core location region … Continue reading iOS Geofencing using Core Location
So I come from a Flash background (I know, I know) and one of the things I really like about coding in AS3 is the event based system. AS3 allows custom events that bubble through the hierarchy of objects and only those objects listening to the event need respond. It’s very elegant solution that conforms … Continue reading NSNotificationCenter Tutorial