About a month ago, Oculus released Oculus Quest, a standalone virtual reality (VR) head mounted display. It was the first real wow effect I’ve had with VR since 2014. We got our first VR device, Oculus Rift developer kit 2, to our office in late 2014. It didn’t come with hand controllers and it needed a sturdy computer to run..
Do you have an app in the App Store for iPhone or iPad? Is your app using third party login mechanisms, like Facebook or Google? If so, it’s most likely that your app needs to be updated by next spring! Apple recently released their own anonymous and private way to login to apps, “Sign in with Apple”. Apple has updated..
For small developers, getting your creations to the hands of users around the world was for long expensive, hard or just impossible. In the last ten years, application distribution models have evolved hugely. But let me start by looking back more than 20 years. Back then It was a great white winter day, sometime around 1997, when I had finally..
== true I love Kotlin. It’s an amazing language. I wrote it a love letter once. But… There is one thing about it that sucks. Null is not true. Null is not false. For example, this fails to compile if (nullableBoolean) { doStuff() } If you want to get that to work you need to compare it to true. if..
I’ve been programming since early 1990s. Fairly early on, I also started building different kinds of games: small quick action blasts, adventure games, car games, space shooters, brain quizzes, and so on. Truth to be told, many of them only reached proof-of-concept or prototype level, but there are e.g. several mobile games available in app stores that I’ve created. And..
There is a new light past the horizon and it shines Here at Make Helsinki we’ve decided to give Kotlin a go just few weeks before Google announced they would make it an official Android language, together with Java. We would have kept with it anyway, but the announcement cemented it. So far I gave it a go with few..
