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 →
Category: Programming
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 →
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 →
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 →