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 →
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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 →
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 →
IPhone… Flash light when receiving call, SMS or email
I keep getting asked why my iPhone camera flash flashes whenever I receive a phone call, text message or email, which is actually really useful especially when you are in a noisy environment. Someone even mentioned that they were about to develop an app to do just that.,, no need: Go to Settings –> General –> Accessibility And enable: LED… Read more →