Archive for February, 2010

Mobile CSS : Universal iPhone UI Kit

I’m sure right now, some of the adventurous developer will be rushing in to develop their own Iphone apps whether it’s pure apps , web-app or web-app compiled into native app.

Well for those developing web-app and native compiled web-app, you might wanna skip the phase of designing UI themes and just settled with one standard ones but, the problem is, unlike native apps – web apps doesn’t have that kind of build in graphics and text to use as it uses the web technologies like CSS and image files. Fortunely, good news for all developers out there. Check out Universal iPhone UI Kit project. A mini prebuild CSS suitable for all Iphone and Iphone touch platform and also, it comes with all the standard cocoa looking images. Sweet!

Just download it and make reference to the css and image folder. You can start editing index.html and start  your quest in app development. :)

AS3 : Explosion Burst Class

Developing games like Shooter in As3 can be boring without good explosion effects. Over the weekends, I ported a simple class ( from As2 )which does some randomized explosion movie-clips.

This is to be used when there’s an explosion in the game. The class allows you to create explosion effect based on number of particles, size of distance and alpha. All you need is to instantiate it and pass in the variables needed. See sample below.

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