Developers: Your perspectives do matter to the mobile industry.

<p>Hello developers, please share your opinions and experience in mobile development by participating in the following survey<br>https://s.zoomerang.com/s/pivotalperspectivesnovember</p>

Hello developers, please share your opinions and experience in mobile development by participating in the following surveyhttps://s.zoomerang.com/s/pivotalperspectivesnovember…

Marmalade SDK: Exception: Multiply Overflow

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I was performing some transformations (scaling) on 2D sprites like this:</div><pre class="brush:cpp">CIwMat2D matrix;<br />rot.Scale(IW_FIXED(2));<br /></pre>When I ran the app I received the following exception:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">IwAssert failure (GEOM, 350). Message: Multiply overflow </blockquote></div>The avoid this exception, you must set your matrix to the Identity matrix before applying transformations on it like this: <br /><pre class="brush:cpp">CIwMat2D matrix;<br />matrix.SetIdentity();<br />rot.Scale(IW_FIXED(2));<br /></pre></div>

I was performing some transformations (scaling) on 2D sprites like this:CIwMat2D matrix;rot.Scale(IW_FIXED(2));When I ran the app I received the following exception:IwAssert failure (GEOM, 350). Message: Multiply overflow The avoid this exception, yo…

Marmalade SDK: Data cache overflow allocating XXX. Increase [GX] DataCacheSize (currently XXXXX) exception

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">You may encounter this error if your application requires caching some data but the reserved cache size by your application does not have enough space.<br /><br />to solve this, just increase the reserved cache space defined in your <b>app.icf</b> file:<br /><pre><br />[GX]<br />DataCacheSize=30000<br /></pre><br /></div>

You may encounter this error if your application requires caching some data but the reserved cache size by your application does not have enough space.to solve this, just increase the reserved cache space defined in your app.icf file:[GX]DataCacheSiz…

Marmalade SDK: Output Debug messages

If you want to output debug messages in your output console in Visual studio, you can do it in two ways:<br /><br /><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Use standard C++ output stream <b>cout</b><pre class="brush:cpp">cout<<"Your Message"<<endl;</pre></li><li>use the Marmalade  <b>s3eDebug</b> module: first include the header: <pre class="brush:cpp">#include "s3eDebug.h"</pre>then <pre class="brush:cpp">s3eDebugOutputString("Your Message");<br /></pre>to display integers you have to convert them to C style strings first: <pre class="brush:cpp">int x=10;<br />char buffer[10];<br />//convert the int to a char array<br />sprintf(buffer,"%d",x);<br />s3eDebugOutputString(buffer);<br /></pre></li></ol>

If you want to output debug messages in your output console in Visual studio, you can do it in two ways:Use standard C++ output stream coutcoutuse the Marmalade  s3eDebug module: first include the header: #include "s3eDebug.h"then s3eDebugOutputStri…

Marmalade SDK: Exception cannot open file iwui_style/style.group.bin for serialising

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I made a simple IW2D app with Marmalade SDK, it worked fine in the Windows emulator but when I deployed to Android I received this exception:<br /><br /><b>cannot open file iwui_style/style.group.bin for serialising (read), Did you include this file in your mkb assets block</b><br /><b><br /></b>The solution was  to add this block to my MKB file<br /><br /></div><pre>assets<br />{<br /> (data-ram/data-gles1)<br /> ui.group.bin<br /> <b>(data-ram/data-gles1)<br /> iwui_style/style.group.bin</b><br />}<br /></pre></div>

I made a simple IW2D app with Marmalade SDK, it worked fine in the Windows emulator but when I deployed to Android I received this exception:cannot open file iwui_style/style.group.bin for serialising (read), Did you include this file in your mkb ass…

App Developers: check this survey

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"><i><u>“I came across this <a href="https://www.research.net/s/TPF6RZ2" target="_blank">invitation</a> for developers to give their perspectives to mobile industry leaders such as Microsoft, Google, Apple and RIM.  Check it out”</u></i></b><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">It's a really nice survey, participate and share your experience with others</span></div>

“I came across this invitation for developers to give their perspectives to mobile industry leaders such as Microsoft, Google, Apple and RIM.  Check it out”It's a really nice survey, participate and share your experience with others…

Android Developers Blog: Introducing Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) preview platform, and more

<a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/06/introducing-android-41-jelly-bean.html">Android Developers Blog: Introducing Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) preview platform, and more</a>

Android Developers Blog: Introducing Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) preview platform, and more…

Playstation Suite SDK: referencing DLLs and Intellisense

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">An issue I faced today while testing the Playstation Suite SDK, I created a sample project in the PSS Studio and added a reference to a custom made DLL.<br /><br />I found that the intellisense (auto completion) of the editor couldn't perceive the newly added DLL, it provided no auto-completion for the classes within the library.<br /><br />I got the solution to this from here <a href="http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2012/04/20/Initial-issues-with-Playstation-Suite-SDK.aspx">http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2012/04/20/Initial-issues-with-Playstation-Suite-SDK.aspx</a><br /><br />just restart the PSS Studio and everything will work just fine</div>

An issue I faced today while testing the Playstation Suite SDK, I created a sample project in the PSS Studio and added a reference to a custom made DLL.I found that the intellisense (auto completion) of the editor couldn't perceive the newly added DL…

SUNPHOS featured in Android Police

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><a href="http://android-pro.blogspot.com/2012/02/sunphos.html" target="_blank">SUNPHOS</a></b> is feautered in <a href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/02/20/44-best-and-4-wtf-new-android-apps-and-live-wallpapers-from-the-last-2-weeks-2512-21912/" target="_blank"><b>Android Police</b></a> as one of the best 43 apps in the last 2 weeks</div>

SUNPHOS is feautered in Android Police as one of the best 43 apps in the last 2 weeks…

SUNPHOS

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">SUNPHOS  is a professional android application for photographers who needs to plan a day around the constantly changing character of sunlight. It provides you with valuable information like day length,sun rise & sun set, golden hour, twilight and more.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cy-ktBtrpt0?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><br />SUNPHOS Features:<br /><br /><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Search Sun Track.</li><li>View Mode.</li><li>Search Sun Position.</li><li>Daily Report on sun info.</li></ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.symbyo.suntracker&feature=search_result" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://sunphos.com/home_files/android.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div></div></div>

SUNPHOS  is a professional android application for photographers who needs to plan a day around the constantly changing character of sunlight. It provides you with valuable information like day length,sun rise & sun set, golden hour, twilight and mor…