Category Archives: Tutorials

Accessing Sensor Data (Pedometer) on Samsung Gear 2 – Sample Code

Posted on May 16, 2014 by Vykthur

This article provides sample code to access sensor data for the samsung Gear 2 running tizen. The examples provided with the Tizen wearable SDK are definitely sufficient to get you started , but with a catch – Everything is written in … Continue reading →

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Step by Step Guide on How to Build Your first Samsung Gear 2 App (Tizen)

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Vykthur

Photo Credit : Samsung Developers This post documents the process of installing the Gear 2 sdk’s , running and testing the Hello World App for  Samsung Gear 2 which is based on Tizen. No direct Step-By-Step tutorial is available on the Samsung … Continue reading →

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PhpMyAdmin Database : No Priviledges Error

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Vykthur

The Problem I logged into PhpMyAdmin  on localhost with wrong credentials (username:admin and no password) and couldn’t create any new database : NO PRIVILEDGES.   I’m not even sure why the wrong credentials worked in the first place as I … Continue reading →

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Recovering a Bricked (Bootloop) Galaxy S2 i9100G and Installing CyanogenMod 11 (Android 4.4)

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Vykthur

I tried flashing CM11 (Android 4.4 Kit Kat) on my aging Samsung galaxy s2 GT-I9100G  and along the line I encountered a bootloop. A bootloop occurs when the device is powered up and tries to load up the OS, shows … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone 8 Development – Panorama’s are overrated

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Vykthur

Source : Microsoft UX Chit Chat In the past few weeks I’ve tried to get familiar with building apps for Windows Phone 8 using C# and Xaml. As is my practice, I usually start out with reading –  documentation on … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone 8 – Debug and Fix ‘System. Reflection .Target Invocation Exception’ error

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Vykthur

Source : Dailymobile.net As a beginner developer, debugging can quickly take the joy away from learning a new language/platform. And there’s  little information on debugging Windows Phone 8 Applications. The error titled above (targetinvocatoexception) did take a considerable amount of time … Continue reading →

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Step by Step Guide on How to build your first Slider Puzzle game in Cocos2d for Android – Part 3

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Vykthur

In Part 1 of this tutorial series, you learned about creating a new Cocos2D for android project, adding sprites, scaling and positioning sprites. In Part 2, you learned more about generating and positioning the tiles for the slider puzzle, and … Continue reading →

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Handling Sound in Cocos2D for Android

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Vykthur

Screenshot credits from one of my games – Puzzbox Africa In many games, sound remains a vital component for achieving interactivity. You may need to play short sound clips in response to events e.g when a button is pressed, a … Continue reading →

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Windows 8.1 – How to fix Updates failed, Undoing Changes Error

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Vykthur

Im not sure how often this occurs, but after downloading updates on my new Windows 8.1 installation and restarting, the update process just froze up and windows could not start up. One (costly) solution is to just re-install the operating … Continue reading →

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How to Slide a Sprite around based on touch/drag input in Cocos2D for Android

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Vykthur

This post is written in response to a question on Part 1 of the Building your first slider puzzle game in Cocos2D for Android. How do you slide/drag a large image sprite around the screen based on touch/drag input ? … Continue reading →

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