Recently I started work on a custom camera for You Doodle. As part of this, I was overhauling the camera picker, moving away from UIImagePickerController to my own custom camera. This required diving into AVFoundation. While I have a lot …
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Recently I decided our home needed some network attached storage (NAS). This is simply a hard drive or group of hard drives that are visible on a network. I looked on Amazon for cheap WiFi routers that claimed they had …
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Online Voting is the Future Last night I attended a caucus in Utah. The line was the slowest, longest line I have ever been in. It was hot inside, crowded and the whole event was extremely disorganized. So many, many …
Shader – Bitmasking is Easier than you Think I recently created a Unity asset, Fast Line Renderer. I wanted different line caps so that the lines look nice. One option was to do four draw calls and four materials. I …
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Unity – My Experience making Assets I’ve been making Unity assets for almost a year now. It’s been fun getting back into the game development sphere. Currently I have these Unity assets that I have put on the store. Most …
This year I will be working on improving You Doodle for iOS and Android, along with creating a MAC / PC version of You Doodle. I also plan on investing more time in Unity plugins. It should be a great …
The AdMob iOS SDK is notorious for crashing apps. AdMob has a great fill rate and decent payout, so it’s a shame that the SDK itself is so crummy. Over the weekend of December 6-7, 2015 I noticed a massive …
In porting You Doodle to Android, I have become very familiar with the Android Canvas API, the OnDraw function and the TextureView class. While I can’t consider myself an expert yet in Android graphics I can say that I have …
I’ve spent the last few months porting You Doodle from iOS to Android. It’s been an interesting experience as I have learned the Android environment and frameworks. I’ve managed to get all the draw tools working (except scissors), and get …