How to Create an Infinite Climbing Game in Phaser
17 minsIn this tutorial I'm going to show you how you can create this simple, infinite climbing game.
How to Create an Infinite Scrolling List in Sencha Touch
5 minsThe more elements that are in the Document Object Model (DOM) and the more requests we need to make to the server to load content, the slower the application will become.
How to Create Animations in Phaser with a Texture Atlas
10 minsIn this tutorial I'm going to show you how to use something called a texture atlas to create animations in Phaser.
How to Create Complex Layouts with Sencha Touch
8 minsThis tutorial will focus on explaining a little bit about how the Sencha Touch layout system works and then we will walk through building a specific complex layout.
How to Create iOS In App Purchases with PhoneGap Build
11 minsIn App Purchases may be the best thing since ice cream, but they can be an awful pain to set up. So let's walk through exactly how to set them up for your PhoneGap Build (or PhoneGap) application.
How to Integrate Game Center into a PhoneGap Build App
7 minsIn this tutorial I will show you how to set up Game Center in your PhoneGap Build application and set up a leaderboard. Let's get into the tutorial, we'll start out with the easy stuff.
How to Listen to Events with Controllers in Sencha Touch
6 minsIn this post I'm going to try to explain how to trigger and listen for an event in Sencha Touch in the simplest way I can. If you take a look at a common controller setup, it will probably look something like the following
How to Make High Performance PhoneGap Apps
9 minsI wasn't fortunate enough to attend PhoneGap Day this year, so my experience of it was skulking around the pgday hashtag on twitter and experiencing it
How to Remove the 300ms Tap Delay in HTML5 Mobile Apps
4 minsAny time a user taps anything within your application, the browser powering the application will wait 300ms before actually firing the click event.
How to Run a Server Side Search Query in Sencha Touch
6 minsThis is quite easy to accomplish for locally stored data - but when we're loading in our data from a remote database our application can't possibly know how to sort or filter data that it doesn't even know about yet.
How to Scale a Game for All Device Sizes in Phaser
6 minsI think scaling is a pretty big topic for HTML5 mobile games, and there's no one size fits all solution. I'm yet to make more complex games with Phaser but I have a scaling strategy that seems to work pretty well for me.
How to Scan QR Codes with Sencha Touch and PhoneGap
4 minsThat's enough about the viability of QR codes though, let's get into how to actually implement our own QR Code reader with PhoneGap Build
How to Solve Cross Origin Access Problems in Sencha Touch
3 minsI wanted to create this post to document the steps required to get an Ajax proxy working correctly, both sending and receiving data from the back-end.
How to Sort a List by Proximity of Location in Sencha Touch
5 minsOne thing you will probably have seen a lot of are apps that have 'Near You' lists - these might be things like shops, people, events and so on that are sorted by how close the user is to the point of interest.
How to Take App Store Screenshots for HTML5 Games without 100 Devices
4 minsUsing this technique I can export all the screenshots I need in about 10 minutes and no longer dread the app store submission process!
How to Use Retina Graphics in HTML5 Phaser Games
8 minsIf you don't have one, you've probably heard of Apple's "Retina" devices. Retina is just marketing spiel that refers to the device pixel ratio of the device. If we take a look at the iPhone 5 as an example, it has a resolution of
How to Use the Google Places API in a Sencha Touch Application
5 minsI've been developing an application that uses the Google Maps API and needed to include the Google Places API as well. I had a bit of trouble with the integration...
HTML5 Mobile Podcast Episode 01
2 minsThis is the first episode of a new podcast I'll be running about HTML5 mobile development.
Increase Phaser Performance on PhoneGap with WebGL and WKWebView
3 minsAs I've discussed before, PhoneGap isn't really the best option for running a Phaser game, but it is a very easy option. If you've created a resource intensive
Ionic 2 with Mike Hartington – HTML5 Mobile Podcast Episode 02
2 minsA lot of people seemed to enjoy the last podcast with Andrew McGivery so I've decided to keep going with these podcasts. This is still new to me and I'm still