Pong like game as iPad SWIFT Playground
Last week on WWDC Apple showed a short demo about a Swift Playground for iOS, which was part of iOS 10 on iPads. They focused on using playgrounds to teach kids and students coding. That seems a little bit unspectacular and is a...
Apple Watch as a Gaming Platform – Use the Digital Crown to control sprite movement for a Pong like game
Use the Digital Crown to control sprite movement Welcome to my new WatchKit tutorial. Today I’ll show that it is possible to use the Apple Watch as a gaming platform. First let’s look back to the first WatchKit...
Quick Tip: Endless scrolling tutorial with SpriteKit and SWIFT (Part 2 of 2)
Natural endless scrolling with easing Welcome to my scrolling tutorial: Part 1: Endless scrolling with background tiles Part 2: Natural endless scrolling with easing In part one I showed how to implement endless scrolling. This...
Quick Tip: Endless scrolling with SpriteKit and SWIFT (Part 1 of 2)
Endless scrolling with background tiles Welcome to my tutorial series about scrolling: Part 1: Endless scrolling with background tiles Part 2: Natural endless scrolling with easing This video gives an impression what...
Quick Tip: How to use the Apple TV remote to control a sprite in your TVOS Apps
How to use the Apple TV remote to control a sprite in your TVOS Apps Since my Apple TV Developer kit arrived one week ago I had plenty of time to try certain things. I will blog about some of my prototypes in the next days. Today...
Quick Tip: How to use the remote control in your TVOS Apps for Apple TV in SWIFT
How to use the remote control in your tvOS Apps for Apple TV in SWIFT There are already dozens of ‚Hello world‘ tutorials published for the new Apple tvOS, so let’s do something different. I’ll show how to...
Quick Tip: Implement the new Google AdMob / AdSense Cookie Policy
In the last days Google sent out emails to App developers which uses their AdSense and AdMob frameworks explaining the new Google Cookie Policy. Google urges them to inform their users about the usage of the advertising cookies:...
Quick Tip: Combine iAd and AdMob Ads for iOS in SWIFT
Use iAd and AdMob ads in the same app Today I’ll show how to use iAd together with AdMob ads. If you use the interstitial ads provided by Apples iAd frequently, you might have seen that the fill rate is not always 100...
Quick Tip: Integrate iAd banners in your iOS App with two lines of code
The easiest way to add iAD banners to your app Today I’ll show a very simple way to integrate an ad banner to your iOS app. Most tutorials (including mine) explain the complex way by implementing the ADBannerViewDelegate...
I’ve published an update for my (Watch) puzzle game in the Apple App Store
Yet Another (Watch) Puzzle Game: Simple puzzle game inspired by the 15 Puzzle for Apple Watch, iPhone and iPad. New in version 1.3: Puzzle mode – slide image tiles instead of numbers.