Adding more screens to an iOS app
This tutorial explains how to add more than one screen to your iOS app and link screens together using buttons. We will use a simple example for this tutorial as …
Send SMS from Android app with Xamarin
In this tutorial you will learn how to make an Android app that can send SMS messages. Firstly, we will create a button that can send a pre-determined message to …
Improving the Android Temperature Converter App
In this tutorial we will look at how to improve the code in the Temperature Converter App for Android from the previous tutorial. If you have tested the app yourself, you …
Making a Cookie Clicker game for iOS
In this tutorial we will make a Cookie Clicker game for iOS mobile devices using Xamarin.We made the same app for Android in a previous tutorial and now we are …
Adding more screens to an Android app
In this tutorial, you will learn how to add multiple screens to an Android app. We will use the existing Android Temperature Converter app from one of the earlier tutorials to …
While loops in C#
While loops are used to repeat a section of code while a specified condition evaluates to true. For example, a user could keep being asked to enter a password while …
What is Xamarin?
Welcome to the tutorial series on building mobile apps for Android and iOS with Xamarin and the C# programming language. In this tutorial series you will learn how to use …
Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
A Graphical User Interface (GUI) provides a way for the game to provide information to the user or to read information from the user. This can be in the form …
Raycasting
Raycasting involves sending out a ‘ray’ and finding out what it hits. Raycasting is used by game developers to find the distance between players and another object, aiming, detecting nearby …
Collision detection in Unity
Collision So what is collision? Collision is knowing when one object has come into contact with another object. In this tutorial, we will look at collision detection, the Rigidbody component, …
Accessing other objects and modifying their components
This tutorial explains how you can write a script in C# that can access other objects and then modify their components. In this example, we will attach a script to …
Create a rolling ball game with force and gravity
This tutorial will show you how to create a simple rolling ball game using the Rigidbody physics component in unity to add force and gravity. In this game, we will use …
Scripting in Unity with C#
In this tutorial we will look at how to start scripting in Unity using the C# language. Scripts are what are needed to make your game interactive. In addition to the …