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Announcing the Spell It Update: And a Happy 10 year Anniversary!

Android, Apps-SoftwaresMay 2, 202417Views 0Likes 0Comments

Hello Spell It enthusiasts! We are thrilled to unveil a monumental update to the classic word game that started it all—Spell It! It's hard to believe it's been nearly a decade since our last major release, but today marks a new chapter in the Spell It saga. First off, a huge thank you to our…

Into the Advent-ure of Code 2022

CodingMarch 18, 202314Views 0Likes 0Comments

This was the first time I attended the global coding hackathon-like fun event, the Advent of Code 2022. Being an Android developer using Kotlin, I’ve been following the Kotlin updates on Jetbrains blog posts, and this year, Jetbrains happens to be the key sponsor for the event and they have provided a sample GitHub repo…

Create transparent image mask from black and white (monochrome) alpha mask using GIMP

TutorialsOctober 6, 202218Views 0Likes 0Comments

You got an image to be used as mask for another image. (Mask is like a black and white image, when combined with other images, white area will be retained, black area will be erased, grey area will have less transparency). Suppose our image is like this Input image For masking sometimes you require a transparent…

Inkscape 1.0 badge tutorial – Video + Text Guide

TutorialsJune 5, 202013Views 0Likes 0Comments

Here's the Inkscape Badge Tutorial No One asked for, but I decided to do it anyway with my voice. Maybe it'll help someone. Video Notes / Written Tutorial For those not preferring a video tutorial, here's a written one. selecting the color palette to windows xp Drawing a Rectangle and Duplicate it (CTRL + D)…

Exporting Android Library as aar with sources in Android Studio

AndroidNovember 15, 201910Views 0Likes 0Comments

Ever wanted to view through the aar library sources in your android studio project, but got the decompiled class files instead. For seeing the source code, when going to function declarations inside the aar file you can attach the sources for the aar library inside the Android Studio like this. First build a…

Year in Review : 2018

ThoughtsJanuary 24, 201912Views 0Likes 0Comments

The Year 2018 was indeed quite adventurous and twists and turns. Only FOUR blog posts. Mostly about game releases. Bigger things learned the hard way, even though it was always just before your eyes. - who else Moving to Android Development (& Web too) Slowed down the games development for a bit. Why ? And moved…

Raylib Game Tutorial : Space Invaders using VSCode

TutorialsDecember 28, 201823Views 0Likes 4Comments

A Simple Raylib Game Tutorial, setup using the VSCode editor.

OpenClipart Org Android App Release

Android, Apps-SoftwaresDecember 19, 201811Views 0Likes 0Comments

The infamous OpenClipart.org website offers an evergrowing collection of free public domain vector cliparts. ( which means you can do whatever with it). So I made an Android App to easily search and view cliparts on the go. So Here it is. Openclipart.Org Android App, Since the Openclipart site was down, I've to…

Chemistry Lab : A Free Android Educational game that makes chemistry fun

My GamesNovember 16, 201813Views 0Likes 0Comments

Chemistry Lab : A Free Educational Game for Android Devices available on Google Play store.

Creating a Table view in Android using Recyclerview

Android, TutorialsAugust 6, 201858Views 0Likes 11Comments

While working on an Android App, there came a requirement to add Table View. I've tried several Table View Libraries, but found them too confusing to setup. And when I got a case where the text needs to be fit in, and rows needs to be in equal height when the text grows big, I've…

Android Game Release : Funny Idioms Quiz Game on Playstore

Android, My GamesMay 6, 201712Views 0Likes 0Comments

Another Android Game release. Funny Idioms Quiz Game provides a fun and quick way to learn the confusing meanings of English Idioms in a Fun way. This is actually a remake of my previous Idiom Quiz Game called as IGQ (If you are familiar with it). And the Beautiful & Colorful Art work is done by…

Game Release : Mathemaniac-Addition Addiction Made using Cocos Creator

Games, My GamesApril 6, 20179Views 0Likes 0Comments

Part of learning new stuffs, encountered Cocos Creator (Download for Free from here), quickly made Mathemaniac - Addition Addiction using Cocos Creator. It was indeed similar to Unity, which made things quite easy for some stuffs (if you're familiar with Unity). Working on Javascript was a new thing. Coming from as3 and C#, it was quite…

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