Our new app Playbox is released.

We have released an app called Playbox on Google Play few days ago.

This app let your children play songs on your phone or tablet. A player that is both child and parent friendly. A song player that has a child mode and a parent mode.

Playbox – a fun kids audio player where you control the playlist, and your kids enjoy the songs!

In parent mode use the auto song finder to make a playlist of songs for your children. Then switch the app to child mode and let your kids play the songs in the children’s audio player.

Your children have fun playing music and audio at home or when you’re travelling. You retain parental control over what they play and when.

Parent mode:
★ Auto-find songs from your device – a hassle free way to find music on your phone or tablet
★ Auto-filter children’s songs and create a playlist in a couple of taps
★ Create song lists for your children that you control

The kids music player:
★ We’ve made a child friendly music player with simple controls perfect for children (and friendly to your ears and sanity – no repeat and rewind buttons!).
★ A fun player for children’s music featuring an animated playlist
★ Lots of fun characters to enjoy and identify with each child song

We developed this app using Starling, Feathers UI framework and Starling fullscreen extension. We developed an ANE that returns all the music in the device. It is available only on Android for now and we will release iOS version soon.

Links:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.believecreative.playbox

http://playboxplayer.com/

 

 

True fullscreen for Android games developed in AS3

I came across this awesome extension, to enable true full screen mode for android applications developed in AS3. You can find the extension here.

Sample code:

import com.mesmotronic.ane.AndroidFullScreen;
AndroidFullScreen.isSupported; // Is this ANE supported?
AndroidFullScreen.isImmersiveModeSupported; // Is immersive mode supported?
AndroidFullScreen.immersiveWidth; // The width of the screen in immersive mode
AndroidFullScreen.immersiveHeight; // The height of the screen in immersive mode

AndroidFullScreen.hideSystemUI(); // Hide system UI until user interacts
AndroidFullScreen.showSystemUI(); // Show system UI
AndroidFullScreen.showUnderSystemUI(); // Extend app underneath system UI (Android 4.4+)
AndroidFullScreen.immersiveMode(); // Hide system UI and keep it hidden (4.4+)
AndroidFullScreen.immersiveMode(false); // Hide system UI until user swipes from top (4.4+)

Note: You need to set ‘fullscreen’ to  false in the application descriptor to prevent clipping of flash graphics in place of system UI.

Use immersiveWidth and immersiveHeight property of the extension to get the width and height of the screen after UI is hidden.

If you are using Starling fullscreen extension, you have to pass the immersiveWidth, immersiveHeight as the values for width and height.

var mStarling:Starling = FullScreenExtension.createStarling(Game, stage, AndroidFullscreen.immersiveWidth, AndroidFullscreen.immersiveHeight, HAlign.LEFT, VAlign.TOP);

Flash Games Optimization Techniques by Zynga

http://adobe.ly/16KZlYf
This is is the video I came across few minutes ago. It is an interesting presentation of Zynga’s Ben Cooley on optimization techniques and it explained different optimization techniques very neatly. I already knew some of the techniques he mentioned in the video and I have been implementing them in my games and some of them I knew it now and I will implement them in my next projects!