Category: Tutorials

On this site I’ve mentioned many different iOS game engines on the open source iOS game engines list, and the commercial iOS game engines list.  For the most part the free game engines are all 2D.

I recently found out about another game engine known as Nineveh from this forum posting that has entered into open beta.  It looks great so far, and is well documented so if you want to play around with it you can just dive right in.

A few of the features offered are:

• Support for .OBJ and Collada meshes
• Reflections, Speculars, Bump mapping
• Easily combine shader effects

You can find Neveh here:
Nineveh.gl

Be sure to check out their set of video tutorials if you want to learn how to use Nineveh quickly here:
Nineveh.gl/docs/tutorials/

While it’s still in open beta it looks great.  The have stated that this is a free game engine  – and not just freely available because it is in open beta.

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On this site I’ve mentioned many different iOS game engines on the open source iOS game engines list, and the commercial iOS game engines list.  For the most part the free game engines are all 2D.

I recently found out about another game engine known as Nineveh from this forum posting that has entered into open beta.  It looks great so far, and is well documented so if you want to play around with it you can just dive right in.

A few of the features offered are:

• Support for .OBJ and Collada meshes
• Reflections, Speculars, Bump mapping
• Easily combine shader effects

You can find Neveh here:
Nineveh.gl

Be sure to check out their set of video tutorials if you want to learn how to use Nineveh quickly here:
Nineveh.gl/docs/tutorials/

While it’s still in open beta it looks great.  The have stated that this is a free game engine  – and not just freely available because it is in open beta.

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I’ve mentioned Cocos2D-X previously – the C++ version of the popular Cocos2D game engine that allows for cross platform development on iOS, Android, and Windows complete with templates written for Xcode and Visual Studio.

Not too long ago I saw that Lua scripting was added into the build on Github along with a demo project showing a simple game scene. This has now been added to the official release.

Every function available within Cocos2D-X is available through the Lua scripting engine. You can check out the “HelloLua” project for syntax.

You can find the official news on this release here:
0.8.5 released! Lua support, xcode4 templates and more.

The homepage for Cocos2D-X can be found here.

No workarounds like Wax needed for Lua scripting anymore, the speed looks good so at the very least this is a great start for official Lua scripting within Cocos2d.

Read More: iPhone Dev News

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I’ve mentioned Cocos2D-X previously – the C++ version of the popular Cocos2D game engine that allows for cross platform development on iOS, Android, and Windows complete with templates written for Xcode and Visual Studio.

Not too long ago I saw that Lua scripting was added into the build on Github along with a demo project showing a simple game scene. This has now been added to the official release.

Every function available within Cocos2D-X is available through the Lua scripting engine. You can check out the “HelloLua” project for syntax.

You can find the official news on this release here:
0.8.5 released! Lua support, xcode4 templates and more.

The homepage for Cocos2D-X can be found here.

No workarounds like Wax needed for Lua scripting anymore, the speed looks good so at the very least this is a great start for official Lua scripting within Cocos2d.

Read More: iPhone Dev News

©2011 iPhone, iOS 4, iPad SDK Development Tutorial and Programming Tips. All Rights Reserved.

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I’ve mentioned Cocos2D-X previously – the C++ version of the popular Cocos2D game engine that allows for cross platform development on iOS, Android, and Windows complete with templates written for Xcode and Visual Studio.

Not too long ago I saw that Lua scripting was added into the build on Github along with a demo project showing a simple game scene. This has now been added to the official release.

Every function available within Cocos2D-X is available through the Lua scripting engine. You can check out the “HelloLua” project for syntax.

You can find the official news on this release here:
0.8.5 released! Lua support, xcode4 templates and more.

The homepage for Cocos2D-X can be found here.

No workarounds like Wax needed for Lua scripting anymore, the speed looks good so at the very least this is a great start for official Lua scripting within Cocos2d.

Read More: iPhone Dev News

©2011 iPhone, iOS 4, iPad SDK Development Tutorial and Programming Tips. All Rights Reserved.

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I’ve mentioned Cocos2D-X previously – the C++ version of the popular Cocos2D game engine that allows for cross platform development on iOS, Android, and Windows complete with templates written for Xcode and Visual Studio.

Not too long ago I saw that Lua scripting was added into the build on Github along with a demo project showing a simple game scene. This has now been added to the official release.

Every function available within Cocos2D-X is available through the Lua scripting engine. You can check out the “HelloLua” project for syntax.

You can find the official news on this release here:
0.8.5 released! Lua support, xcode4 templates and more.

The homepage for Cocos2D-X can be found here.

No workarounds like Wax needed for Lua scripting anymore, the speed looks good so at the very least this is a great start for official Lua scripting within Cocos2d.

Read More: iPhone Dev News

©2011 iPhone, iOS 4, iPad SDK Development Tutorial and Programming Tips. All Rights Reserved.

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There are quite a few documentation tools out there.  What’s really great about this tool is how easy it is to use for an Objective-C developer.  The end result is that  you can generate HTML  documentation looks exactly like Apple’s own documentation complete with navigation along with fully indexable and browsable Xcode documentation.

The tool is Appledoc from Gentlebytes, and along with the source of the project they have provided extensive usage examples and documentation.

Here’s an example of the generated HTML documentation:
Sample appledoc documentation

The homepage can be found here:
http://www.gentlebytes.com/home/appledocapp/

The Github page can be found here:
https://github.com/tomaz/appledoc

Looks like a good solution for anyone wanting to create great looking documentation easily.

[via Alex Curylo]

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There are quite a few documentation tools out there.  What’s really great about this tool is how easy it is to use for an Objective-C developer.  The end result is that  you can generate HTML  documentation looks exactly like Apple’s own documentation complete with navigation along with fully indexable and browsable Xcode documentation.

The tool is Appledoc from Gentlebytes, and along with the source of the project they have provided extensive usage examples and documentation.

Here’s an example of the generated HTML documentation:
Sample appledoc documentation

The homepage can be found here:
http://www.gentlebytes.com/home/appledocapp/

The Github page can be found here:
https://github.com/tomaz/appledoc

Looks like a good solution for anyone wanting to create great looking documentation easily.

[via Alex Curylo]

©2011 iPhone, iOS 4, iPad SDK Development Tutorial and Programming Tips. All Rights Reserved.

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There are quite a few documentation tools out there.  What’s really great about this tool is how easy it is to use for an Objective-C developer.  The end result is that  you can generate HTML  documentation looks exactly like Apple’s own documentation complete with navigation along with fully indexable and browsable Xcode documentation.

The tool is Appledoc from Gentlebytes, and along with the source of the project they have provided extensive usage examples and documentation.

Here’s an example of the generated HTML documentation:
Sample appledoc documentation

The homepage can be found here:
http://www.gentlebytes.com/home/appledocapp/

The Github page can be found here:
https://github.com/tomaz/appledoc

Looks like a good solution for anyone wanting to create great looking documentation easily.

[via Alex Curylo]

©2011 iPhone, iOS 4, iPad SDK Development Tutorial and Programming Tips. All Rights Reserved.

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There are quite a few documentation tools out there.  What’s really great about this tool is how easy it is to use for an Objective-C developer.  The end result is that  you can generate HTML  documentation looks exactly like Apple’s own documentation complete with navigation along with fully indexable and browsable Xcode documentation.

The tool is Appledoc from Gentlebytes, and along with the source of the project they have provided extensive usage examples and documentation.

Here’s an example of the generated HTML documentation:
Sample appledoc documentation

The homepage can be found here:
http://www.gentlebytes.com/home/appledocapp/

The Github page can be found here:
https://github.com/tomaz/appledoc

Looks like a good solution for anyone wanting to create great looking documentation easily.

[via Alex Curylo]

©2011 iPhone, iOS 4, iPad SDK Development Tutorial and Programming Tips. All Rights Reserved.

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Once again Apple has posted the sessions from WWDC, and this year’s are extremely important thanks to the upcoming release of iOS 5, and the official release earlier this year of Xcode 4.

The sessions are available free  – for those that aren’t registered iOS developers you can register as an Apple developer without payment.

The content presented within the sessions is protected by confidentiality agreement so I won’t go into the details so you will need to log in to get all the details.

You can find the video’s here:
http://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2011/index.php

There are over 100 sessions available so if there is something you want more information on it’s probably in there!

©2011 iPhone, iOS 4, iPad SDK Development Tutorial and Programming Tips. All Rights Reserved.

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Once again Apple has posted the sessions from WWDC, and this year’s are extremely important thanks to the upcoming release of iOS 5, and the official release earlier this year of Xcode 4.

The sessions are available free  – for those that aren’t registered iOS developers you can register as an Apple developer without payment.

The content presented within the sessions is protected by confidentiality agreement so I won’t go into the details so you will need to log in to get all the details.

You can find the video’s here:
http://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2011/index.php

There are over 100 sessions available so if there is something you want more information on it’s probably in there!

©2011 iPhone, iOS 4, iPad SDK Development Tutorial and Programming Tips. All Rights Reserved.

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Once again Apple has posted the sessions from WWDC, and this year’s are extremely important thanks to the upcoming release of iOS 5, and the official release earlier this year of Xcode 4.

The sessions are available free  – for those that aren’t registered iOS developers you can register as an Apple developer without payment.

The content presented within the sessions is protected by confidentiality agreement so I won’t go into the details so you will need to log in to get all the details.

You can find the video’s here:
http://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2011/index.php

There are over 100 sessions available so if there is something you want more information on it’s probably in there!

©2011 iPhone, iOS 4, iPad SDK Development Tutorial and Programming Tips. All Rights Reserved.

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Once again Apple has posted the sessions from WWDC, and this year’s are extremely important thanks to the upcoming release of iOS 5, and the official release earlier this year of Xcode 4.

The sessions are available free  – for those that aren’t registered iOS developers you can register as an Apple developer without payment.

The content presented within the sessions is protected by confidentiality agreement so I won’t go into the details so you will need to log in to get all the details.

You can find the video’s here:
http://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2011/index.php

There are over 100 sessions available so if there is something you want more information on it’s probably in there!

©2011 iPhone, iOS 4, iPad SDK Development Tutorial and Programming Tips. All Rights Reserved.

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There are many guides, and libraries available to make HTTP communication between iOS apps/servers easier.  I’ve found an excellent step-by-step tutorial that demonstrates how to use NSStream and CSStream to communicate from within your iOS apps to a TCP server.

The tutorial is from Cesare Rocchi and also demonstrates the basics of creating a custom TCP server using Python, and the Twisted networking engine along with how to make a simple interface for the client in Cocoa Touch..

You can find the tutorial here:
How To Create A Socket Based iPhone App And Server

You can read more about the Twisted networking engine on their offical site here:
http://twistedmatrix.com/

Overall this is a great tutorial that guides you with detail through every step.

 

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