Over the past few days I’ve been working on implementing the new Amazon iOS ads into Easy Amazon Ads for Unity. Things have been going fairly well and all the important stuff that’s present in the Android version into the iOS version. Both Android and iOS use the same EasyAmazonAdsManager class with only one minor change. For iOS, the
Galaxy Explorer uses Dropbox because mobiles devices don’t have a built in file manager. This can make it very hard for the user to figure out how to get files onto their device and where to put them. After thinking about it some more, I’ve decided to enable filesystem importing using the new “Import CSV”
The new version of Easy Amazon Ads for Unity includes the latest Amazon API, which is version 5.4.46. The big feature in this release of Amazon’s API is that it has support for Google’s Advertising ID. If you are releasing/have released an app on Google Play that uses Amazon Ads, then you are going to
A Julian date is just the number of consecutive days after midday on the 31st of January 4713BC. They are necessary for many astronomy applications. I’ve used the Julian date system for various calculations in all three of my space themed apps. In the original C code for Solar System Explorer, I did it the “hard way”.
Rather than adding a panel image behind every menu, it can be easier just to add an NGUI background image that’s used by the entire menu system. While it sounds easy, it is complicated by the need to maintain the image’s aspect ratio, no matter what the screen resolution is on a device. Designing an
Finding an inactive gameobject at runtime was one of the first challenges that I encountered when I started working with Unity. Functions such as Find() just scan the hierarchy. They skip any inactive gameobject encountered. This makes it hard to access a gameobject that is disabled, unless you’ve already assigned it to a variable. If the app starts
I was about to start work this morning when I received the following panicky email: Judging by the linked security message (and forum posts), they’ve blasted this email out to anyone who has an app that includes a version of OpenSSL older than a week. Apparently this post-Heartbleed SSL vulnerability has Google’s little head in a spin. They were
Wordpress responsive themes are a dime a dozen these days. Finding one that suits my needs and looks good, both on mobile and desktop, has been a challenge. I’m in the app business, so I wanted a WordPress responsive theme that would support individual app landing pages. I also wanted some sort of portfolio manager to
There’s been a lot of talk about the new Apple Swift language. Does the world really need yet another language that is proprietary? While Apple’s mobile business continues to be heathy, it long ago lost dominance in terms of overall units sold. This has lead to developers increasingly porting their apps to other platforms. Back
The latest Amazon Ads API is now supported by my Unity plugin including the new interstitials. The latest plugin has support for caching and showing interstitials, as well as events to catch the loading, failed to load and dismissed events. As usual, I’ve tried to make it as easy as possible. The showInterstitial method will