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JSON or XML – Which Data Format Is Better For Developers?

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Hussain Fakhruddin is the founder/CEO of Teknowledge mobile apps company. He heads a large team of app developers, and has overseen the creation of nearly 600 applications. Apart from app development, his interests include reading, traveling and online blogging.
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              JSON and XML are two language-independent data formats which are frequently used in coding for software and mobile app development. We have here done a point-by-point comparison analysis of the two tools.   Among app developers (web and mobile), JSON has emerged as the most preferred language tool for interchanging data. The surge in the… Read More »

Working With Cocos2D-x: A Beginner’s Guide

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              As far as open-source, cross-platform game engines are concerned, Cocos2D-x would rank right near the top. We have here explained some terms and features of this tool, for new and existing users.   Cocos2d-x would easily figure among the most popular 2D game development engines. Newbies can, however, find it rather complicated – and a… Read More »

Learn To Use SpriteKit For Game Development In The Best Possible Way

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Hussain Fakhruddin is the founder/CEO of Teknowledge mobile apps company. He heads a large team of app developers, and has overseen the creation of nearly 600 applications. Apart from app development, his interests include reading, traveling and online blogging.
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              The number of iOS app developers using SpriteKit for making custom mobile games is increasing at a rapid clip. For coders who wish to start using SpriteKit, we have here shared a few important guidelines.   SpriteKit would easily feature among the most popular animation and graphics rendering tools among iOS app and game developers… Read More »

Unity 5: 15 Features Game Developers Would Love

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              The release of Unity 5 was one of the most noteworthy events during GDC 2015. In the following discussion, we will take you through some of the best new features in the latest iteration of the game engine.   This year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC), organized from the 2nd to the 6th of March, offered… Read More »

Xcode 6.3: What’s New In It For iOS Developers?

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              The third beta of Xcode 6.3 was released on March 12. The IDE offers several handy new features, and fixes a fair few issues with its earlier versions too. Let us have a look-see of the main points of interest in the new Xcode version.     About a week back, Apple seeded the third… Read More »

Eclipse vs Android Studio: Which IDE Is Better For Android Developers?

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              Eclipse has been, for years now, the preferred integrated development environment (IDE) for Android developers. However, it is currently facing serious competition from Google’s very own Android Studio. Let us here pit the two IDEs against each other, and try to identify the better one.   It has been an exciting couple of months for… Read More »

Swift 1.2 Arrives: 13 New Features

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              The worldwide iOS app development community is all abuzz with Swift 1.2 – which was launched in early-February. We have here highlighted the main features of interest in the new version of the language.   It took Google’s Go programming language well over 5 years since its release (in 2009), to feature among the top-20… Read More »

Making A WatchKit App: A Step-By-Step Tutorial

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Hussain Fakhruddin is the founder/CEO of Teknowledge mobile apps company. He heads a large team of app developers, and has overseen the creation of nearly 600 applications. Apart from app development, his interests include reading, traveling and online blogging.
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              Making apps for Apple Watch is something on the minds of every dedicated iOS developer across the world. Here is a stagewise, detailed description of how you can create a demo WatchKit application.   Any iOS app developer worth his/her salt would be aware that Xcode 6.3 beta has been released along with Swift 1.2.… Read More »

Is Spine The Best Tool For 2D Animations In Mobile Apps?

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Hussain Fakhruddin is the founder/CEO of Teknowledge mobile apps company. He heads a large team of app developers, and has overseen the creation of nearly 600 applications. Apart from app development, his interests include reading, traveling and online blogging.
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              The popularity of Spine is increasing rapidly among professional animators and mobile game developers. In what follows, we have highlighted some of the key factors that make this 2D skeletal animation tool really user-friendly.   For creating high-end, realistic 2D animations for mobile games, sprite sheets are most commonly used by developers. Sprite sheets offer… Read More »