If you’ve been following along, you probably have seen that the king had a slight problem. It was failing to adequately check for pawns when considering it’s own safety. Here […]
Added a display for the list of possible moves to the Beginner Chess Engine
Well, if you were wondering what I was doing with my spare time, this is it! I just added a TextView to display the move options that the computer had […]
The trouble with knights….
The trouble with knights…. In the continuing saga of making my own chess engine for Android, I’ve run into a peculiarity: If the king is in check, and the only […]
Beginner chess engine
As I continue to work on my java chess engine for Android, I’ve decided on a name for it, “beginner chess engine”. I just posted the latest commits here: https://github.com/alaskalinuxuser/apps_small/commit/cda1b197c7d48b71f45b6ce001cfa6a9482a1ba0 […]
Google’s Play Console App
Most people who are placing their apps on the Google Play Store are already aware of the Android version of the Play Console App. It’s an app to monitor the […]
Android Studio emulator stopped launching after upgrade in Ubuntu 16
I don’t usually re-post something that someone else figured out, but it took me a long time to figure this out, so I thought I would share here. The problem […]
MechDome just got a whole lot more expensive….
I was really excited as an Android developer (probably an insult to real Android app makers, but I try…) when I heard about MechDome. If you read any of my […]
Critical Velocity – an open source libGDX game that was crashing on small screens is now fixed!
Critical Velocity is a fun little open source arcade style scrolling game that I made after finishing my Android developer class. It was my first released game using the libGDX […]
Adding the ability to SatStat to copy the current location to the clipboard
If you like open source applications, and use GPS on your phone, you probably have heard of SatStat. It is a really great open source option for monitoring your location […]
How to “touch” objects in libGDX
There are actually many ways that one can “touch” an object in libGDX. You can create scenes with stages and characters and actors, for one. You could do sprite comparisons […]