Top 10 Tips for Optimizing Your Android Apps for Fire Phone
We walked through how to quickly add Dynamic Perspective to your existing Unity game. We walked through the process of adding Fire phone Dynamic Perspective to a Phaser based HTML5 game.Īdding Dynamic Perspective to Your Unity Games You can now submit your web app as a standard zipfile in addition to the existing hosted web app solution or have web apps in the Amazon Appstore that use both.Īdding Dynamic Perspective to Your HTML5 Games Tutorial
We announced new support for web apps submission to the Amazon Appstore giving you the option to submit self-contained, packaged web apps that run on Amazon devices including Fire TV and Fire phone. HTML5 Packaged Apps Services Makes It Even Easier to Submit Apps We chatted with HandyGames about customer reactions to the new experiences they’ve built using Fire phone and Fire TV. Handygames: Creating Unique Gaming Experiences with Fire Phone and Fire TV The AWS Mobile SDK helps bring the power of the cloud to your apps while enabling you to build high quality mobile apps quickly and easily across multiple platforms including iOS, Android and Fire OS. We shared an overview of the AWS Mobile SDK and how to get started.
We shared a free Xamarin Evolve video that covers how quickly and easily you can target Amazon devices, including Fire phone, using C# and Xamarin Studio.ĪWS Mobile Services Helps Mobile Developers Build Great Experiences across Devices and Platforms Reach New Android Customers with Xamarin Studio, C# and Amazon Fire Devices You will learn about the new customer experiences it enables and how top developers have updated their Android apps to take advantage of Fire phone. Recorded live at AWS re:Invent 2014 this free video will introduce you to Fire the first phone designed by Amazon. The slides and videos are now live so if you weren’t able to make it to the conference you can still get the content right here.įree Video Training – Everything You Need to Know about Building Apps for the Fire Phone We announced a new version of the Amazon Maps API, offering an even richer customer experience with 3D vector maps, 3D landmarks, drawing API’s, fragments, multiple maps, and more.Įach November, Amazon holds the re:Invent developer conference and this year there were several sessions designed for mobile developers and the Fire phone. Here is a recap of helpful Fire phone posts on the Amazon Apps & Services Blog in 2014: Add Beautiful 3D Maps to Your Fire Tablet and Fire Phone Apps with the Amazon Maps API V2 With the Firefly SDK, developers can extend the use of the Firefly button to enable new actions their users can take based on what they identify. Firefly quickly recognizes things in the real world-web and email addresses, phone numbers, QR and bar codes, movies, music, and millions of products, and lets the user take action in seconds-all with the simple press of the Firefly button. The Dynamic Perspective SDK gives developers access to algorithms that identify the X, Y and Z coordinates of the head, enabling a whole new class of apps and games. Dynamic Perspective is an entirely new sensor system that responds to the way a customer holds, views and moves the phone.
Just install this package to generate the MonoGame.Forms templates for all supported platforms.
This counts for the OpenGL library as well as for the DirectX library! It will cause flickering and slow downs. Never use DoubleBuffering on a custom control.Boost performance of a custom OpenGL control by raising its DrawIntervall with the property window during design time (try 50ms or 100ms.If you need as much perormance as possible, you should definitley use the DirectX library.
The OpenGL version of the library currently renders differently than the DirectX one, which makes it generally slower. It should make your life much easier, when you want to create your own editor environment. MonoGame.Forms is the easiest way of integrating a MonoGame render window into your Windows Forms project.