Just a short one: I recently wanted to see if one of my Unity plugins was compatible with FireTV which is pretty much just Android with some restrictions. When I finally realised that I wasn’t going to get a stable connection on my old FireTV stick which just randomly disconnecting I finally gave up and tried with a newer FireTV… Read more →
Steps to Create a Xamarin project for Android 6
I had a need to do this recently, so I’ve recording here for posterity (and to help me remember how to do it in the future)… Create a new project in Visual Studio 2017… Set the minimum Android Version to whatever you need… In my case my app is in a controlled environment that will never be lower… Read more →
A 4k UV Map grid (4096 x 4096) for UV Unwrapping
I had a need for a 4096×4096 UV Map grid and couldn’t find one easily, so knocked one together in Photoshop. Feel free to use it if it’s helpful. Here is the Photoshop file…. Download and some variations below… Read more →
Steps to create a native Android plugin for Unity in Java using Android Studio – Part 2 (of 2)
In Part One of “Steps to create a native Android plugin for Unity in Java using Android Studio” of this blog post / tutorial, I described how to create a really simple ‘hello world’ method in Java using Android Studio that can be compiled into an Android Archive (.aar file) which can then be used as a native Android plugin in… Read more →
Steps to create a native Android plugin for Unity in Java using Android Studio – Part 1 (of 2)
I’ve created a number of Android / Java plugins for Unity using Android Studio so thought I’d document the process. Please let me know if there are better ways of doing any this 🙂 Update: Download Code for this Assumptions: I’m assuming that you already have Unity3D installed, if not, get it from here (Choose the most up to date… Read more →
Windows 10 First Major Update – Version 1511 (OS Build 10586.36)
So I turned the monitors on on my main PC today to find it was rebooting for an update. Not a huge issue. After a normal update though, it booted into the screen that I’ve not seen since installation. Seems it’s either doing a reinstall or some new huge update. After a number of hours* with no option of using… Read more →
More Windows 10 Woes. Apps missing from start menu after “upgrade”
So after “upgrading” to Windows 10 I wondered why I couldn’t find a large number of programs I commonly use… Spotify, Notepad++, Visual Studio to name but a few. I’d imagined that Microsoft was quietly removing some apps (from the start menu, rather than actually uninstalling them) for nefarious reasons.. eg to push their own agenda. It turns out that it’s far… Read more →
Windows 10 Upgrade? Perfect, painful or pitiful?
So I’ve finally made the leap on my main home machine and upgraded to Windows 10. What have I found out so far… Nvidia Really really really don’t want to support older Graphics cards anymore. I had to change my ageing but perfectly usable (under Windows 7 and Window 8/8.1) 7800GTX card which came with a Dell PC that I previously… Read more →
Asp.net WebApi 2.2 (REST) with Webforms and VB.net – Passing multiple simple POST Values (Part 2)
In the previous post I looked at how to add a very simple WebApi 2.2 REST service and demonstrated GET method using VS2013 and in particular VB.net (as the years go by VB.net examples are becoming rarer; it seems everyone is moving to C# and whilst I can program in C# I prefer VB.net). In this post I wanted to know how… Read more →
Asp.net WebApi 2.2 (REST) with Webforms and VB.net – Simple Example with Visual Studio 2013 (Part 1)
I’ve been playing with ASP.net WebAPI recently and wanted to see if it was possible to use WebAPI into an ASP.net Web Forms Application. It looks like the answer is yes that is possible. I found a number of examples online eg “5 Simple Steps for Using Web API in ASP.NET Web Forms Application” but most .net examples these days seem to… Read more →