Developers: Your perspectives do matter to the mobile industry.

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Hello developers, please share your opinions and experience in mobile development by participating in the following survey https://s.zoomera...

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 recei...

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 en...

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 cou...

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...

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 RI...

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 cust...

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 sunligh...