How to Make an iPhone Chat App with Firebase – Part 4
It’s time for the exciting conclusion of our Firebase chat app tutorial! In Part 3, we equipped our app to handle push notifications. We’re still restricted to sending them out …
How to Make an iPhone Chat App with Firebase – Part 3
If you’ve been following along with Part 1 and Part 2 of this tutorial, you now have a functional chat app with a Firebase backend. Next, we’re going to set-up …
How to Make an iPhone Chat App with Firebase – Part 2
In Part One of this tutorial, we set-up an Xcode project and integrated Firebase using CocoaPods. Now it’s time to build the core chat functionality of our app! Open up …
How to Make an iPhone Chat App with Firebase – Part 1
People love to send texts. The Messages app is quite possibly the most used app on your iPhone. Lots of companies incorporate chat into their own apps as well—think one-on-one …
How to Build a Cocos2d-x Android App for Multiple Architectures
If you have ever tried to run a Cocos2d-x app in an Android emulator, you might be familiar with this error: INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS. This happens because your emulator is using one …
SKStoreReviewController: The New Review Prompt for iOS
In iOS 10.3, Apple introduced the SKStoreReviewController, a new standardized way to prompt users to review apps. It’s critical to accumulate as many positive App Store reviews as possible in …
Why Game Center is Here to Stay
When Apple quietly removed the Game Center app as part of its iOS 10 transition, many critics proclaimed that Apple killed Game Center. Sure, you could still access it from …
Why Doesn’t E3 Highlight Mobile Games?
E3 just wrapped up earlier this month, with publishers treating console gaming fans to a plethora of new game trailers. I was already pumped about Super Mario Odyssey before the …
Gacha Mobile App Monetization
We’ve written extensively about different mobile game monetization models. While certain monetization techniques lend themselves more naturally to different genres, the majority of the top grossing games focus on consumable …
How to Make a Simple iPhone Game with Gestures
Apple makes it easy to recognize gestures on iPhone and iPad. Today, we’re going to make a game that detects taps, pinches, and swipes. Much like the classic game Bop …