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Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Rhythos RPG Builder Kickstarter

There seem to be not too many Kickstarter projects that promise open-source results (and I have to admit, incentives are lower if you don't get a copy of a cool game at a discounted price ;) ), but the Rhythos RPG builder project looks like one very much worth of support:

The guy behind it (don't miss the slightly goofy video on the kickstarter page ;) ) seems to be quite far along development already, basing the editor on a previous game of his and utilizing the Liberated Pixel Cup graphics.

He is also asking for non-monetary contributions, so check out his newly set-up community website to learn more about how to contribute.

While personally I don't see myself playing such 2D RPGs much, I contributed because it seems like a great platform for young game developers to start out with... and you have to catch them early as they say (no pedobear reference intended :D ).

How to get indexed in Google Fast | Indexing Secret Tips

Those who are seriously into website development know the importance of getting your webpages indexed by search engines. Sometimes it takes a long time for search engine spiders to crawl your site, which results in keeping your new pages non-indexed. But there are some tricks to increase the indexing rate of your website, so that search engine spiders crawl your website more frequently.

Here bestrix.blogspot.com will provide few secret tips to increase the indexing speed of your website. Most recent study of SEO has has provided an insight into Indexing strategy of Search Engines. This secret strategy will be described in the points given below.

How to get indexed in Google Fast ? Secret Tips

Use Facebook and create a page for your website. This page will be your fanpage and people can like your website on Facebook. Plus you will get a Facebook Badge which you can use on your website. In addition to that you should use some third-party services that will automatically update your Facebook Page whenever you post something on your website. Facebook is one of the most used sites in world, so search engines give priority to content posted on it. So when your latest article /post was posted on Facebook, its chances of getting indexed by google and other search engines are increased significantly.
Similarly you can also use Twitter, and use third-party services to twit on your behalf whenever you upload a post or article on your website.
Apart from that you should post your links in comments on different blogs and websites. Make sure that you post you links on those websites which have high page rank (PR) or High Alexa. Due to these links chances of your website getting crawled by search engine spiders will increase much more.
You can also post articles on article websites about the content on your website. Upto 3 different links are allowed in such articles.

If you get benefit from these suggention, or if you have some other suggestions then feel free to comment on this post.

Getting current display orientation of android device

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In some situations we need to to know what is the current display orientation of the device. In this post i explain how to get the current orientation of an android device. In order to get the display orientation of the android device you need to first get the display information of the device.

For getting the current display info you need to get an object of WindowManager class using the method getWindowManager(). After getting it you need to obtain an object of Display class using the WindowManager object and getDefaultDisplay() method.

WindowManager manager = getWindowManager();

Display disp = manager.getDefaultDisplay();

MainActivity.java

package com.orientationdemo;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.Display;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.WindowManager;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
WindowManager manager = getWindowManager();
Display disp = manager.getDefaultDisplay();
if(disp.getWidth() > disp.getHeight())
{
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(),"Orientation:LANDSCAPE", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
else
{
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(),"Orientation:PORTRAIT", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
}
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
return true;
}
}

You can change the orientation of AVD using the short key ctrl + f11

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Control display orientation of an android device.

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In some cases you want to fix the display orientation for your app in landscape or portrait. In this post i will explain how to restrict the orientation of your app only in landscape or portrait mode.
You can set the display orientation by using the following method

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);

If you want to restrict the display orientation in portrait mode, then you can use the following.

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);

Also you have to made some changes in the androidmanifest.xml file as follows.

<activity

android:name="com.orientationdemo.MainActivity"

android:label="@string/app_name"

android:screenOrientation="landscape" >

MainActivity.java

package com.orientationdemo;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.pm.ActivityInfo;
import android.view.Display;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.WindowManager;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);
}
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
return true;
}
}

AndroidManifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.orientationdemo"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >
<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="8"
android:targetSdkVersion="17" />
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
<activity
android:name="com.orientationdemo.MainActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:screenOrientation="landscape"
>
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
</manifest>

Registering events for views

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MainActivity.java

package com.registerevent;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
Button b1, b2;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
b1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
b2 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button2);
b1.setOnClickListener(bListener);
b2.setOnClickListener(bListener);
}
private OnClickListener bListener = new OnClickListener()
{
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
String label = ((Button)v).getText().toString();
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "you click" +label, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
};
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
return true;
}
}