A Programming Demonstration of Frame Rules in Super Mario Bros.
If you’ve ever spent any time on Twitch, you’re likely familiar with speed running. Essentially, gamers try to complete video games as quickly as possible. Often aided by glitches and …
How To Make A Custom EntryCell in Xamarin.Forms
Xamarin.Forms is an excellent cross-platform tool for enterprise apps that don’t require a lot of platform specific functionality. These sort of apps tend to have a lot of tableviews for displaying …
Font Awesome Icons in Xamarin.Forms
Xamarin.Forms is a powerful tool that allows you to build native apps for iOS, macOS, Android, and UWP, largely from a single codebase. This codebase is able to then render …
How To Fill A XAML Rectangle with Multiple Colors
We usually write about iOS and Android on the HangZone blog, but legend has it that there are some mobile devices out in the wild that run Windows. These unicorns …
How to Create a Stream of Colorful Bubbles using a Blend Overlay in Swift
As a developer, it’s usually helpful to take a quantitative view of things. Colors are no different. Most of us learned in school that you can mix the primary colors—blue, …
ARKit in iOS Part 2
Welcome to part 2 of our ARKit in iOS tutorial. In part 1, we created an iOS app using ARKit in which we could add a chair on the ground …
How to Make a Timer App that Stores Sound and Vibration Settings in UserDefaults
People are very particular about sound when it comes to their mobile experience. A great music track can help to immerse a player in a mobile game. Well placed sound …
How to Display Five Day Forecasts in our Weather App
Longtime readers of the HangZone blog will know exactly what the current temperature is, thanks to our blog post on how to call an external weather API. Unfortunately, they have …
ARKit in iOS Part 1
The release of iOS 11 this year brought an exciting new framework with it—ARKit! This framework is designed to greatly aid in the creation of augmented reality apps for iOS …
How to Build A Shaking Game for iPhone
For years, I’ve wanted to make an app that focuses entirely on shakes. I just couldn’t think of any reasonable idea that warranted that sort of user interaction. That is …