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Tutorial: Local game scores with SQLite

Create a standard Android-Project, or include the following into your game. At first we need a class which creates a database if it doesn’t exist and can access the database. Make a new class and call it ScoreDatabase and extend it from SQLiteOpenHelper

Posted by Bartinger | Posted in All, Tutorials | Posted on 10-09-2011

Tags: 1.8, adventure update, howto, minecraft

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Can’t wait for the next Minecraft update? Mojang released (not the official release) a Minecraft 1.8 pre-release update. Notch is happy for you to try it.

Final release at: 12th of September

How to get and install it:

Download the new minecraft. jar http://assets.minecraft.net/1_8-pre/minecraft.jar
Go to your .minecraft/bin folder

Windows: %appdata%/.minecraft/bin
Linux: ~/.minecraft/bin
OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/.minecraft

remove or rename the existing minecraft.jar and copy the downloaded one in the bin folder
Start Minecraft and have fun.

More after the break.

Organization tips for Android projects

Posted by Bartinger | Posted in All, Tutorials | Posted on 16-08-2011

Tags: android, guide, howto, organisation, tips

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If you develop apps for Android you may have noticed, that you quickly lose the overview of your layouts, ids, drawables, packages, etc. I want to share my experience with you and suggest a few tips, how to organize your projects. I consider myself to these rules, because they help me (and of course others) a lot to know about the project. If you work as a team it is even more important to define rules for the naming and the organization of the project.

The res folder
Packaging
Separating paid & free version