To establish peer to peer (p2p) communication on iOS devices there is an API for that known as the Multipeer Connectivity framework. There are a couple of things to bear in mind about this framework: Discovers and connects with iOS devices but will not discover devices on other platforms like Android Maximum number of 7 invitees (client peers) Will raise a prompt for user acceptance of a peer connection request Intro to Thali project for iOS Thali is an experimental open source p2p project that promises to enable p2p web to run on mobile devices. This is quite a big...
One of our startups at MS Ventures was looking to use the command line to manage their Azure account on Mac. If you prefer using Mac OS X Terminal or iTerm and have an Azure account then you should check out the Azure CLI tools for Mac. Install Azure CLI for Mac You can either download the Azure Command Line tools installer for Mac or install the Azure command line tools using nodejs. I have previously written a post covering installing nodejs using NVM. npm install -g azure-cli@0.8.17 Test Azure command works with help: azure -h Download Azure Publish Settings file...
Background When you create an Azure Mobile Service you can download a ToDo sample app to help you get started on a number of platforms including Windows, iOS and Android. There are also cross platform options available with Xamarin or web app development using PhoneGap or HTML/Javascript. Recently I came across a pretty neat Javascript framework called Ember for creating web apps. While you can go ahead and quickly download the Ember Starter Kit to try out some of the introductory snippets listed on the Emberjs homepage, the better option for serious development of Ember apps is to use Ember-CLI....
Azure Mobile Service is now App Service, please follow the updated tutorial for App Services for Unity3d instead. This is a quick Unity3d game developer tutorial showing how to save, update and query high scores stored in the Cloud using a Mobile Service and the BitRave Azure plugin. Watch how to create a Leaderboard in the cloud using the Unity3d BitRave plugin. To save scores in the Leaderboard table you will need to create a Mobile Service. Get the BitRave plugin with Leaderboard scripts on my GitHub fork. Create new Unity project. Copy contents of the BitRave Universal Plugin Assets...
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