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Game development platform Unity has made it easier to build apps supporting both ARCore and ARKit with a new cross-platform API. Unity calls its new solution AR Foundation and it aims to solve many of the problems developers face with augmented reality development. AR Foundation allows developers to leverage features in the ARCore and ARKit…
The US Supreme Court will hear Apple’s appeal in a class action lawsuit alleging the company is abusing its position to charge developers high fees. Apple takes a 30 percent cut of developers’ app sales on the iOS App Store. This is pretty industry-standard across most of the major app/game stores, including the Play Store…
Less than a week after Apple banned cryptocurrency mining apps from its App Store, a popular PC Android emulator has been caught installing a cryptojacker. The difference between cryptocurrency mining software and a cryptojacker is the latter uses your device’s resources without your permission. A perceptive Reddit user noticed Andy Android Emulator installed a cryptojacker…
Britain is leading app development in Europe with more than £2 billion worth of sales on the iOS App Store since it was launched. According to Apple’s figures, over 290,000 jobs in the UK are linked to the App Store. London is the hub for app development in Britain, accounting for around 138,000 of the…
Google Cloud has announced support for the popular cross-platform Node JavaScript runtime in the standard App Engine environment Node.js allows server code to be written in JavaScript. With the support added today, Google is seeking to make this process as simple for developers as possible. To ensure simplicity, Google is not putting any limitation on…
Apple clearly isn’t a fan of cryptocurrency with its new guidelines saying it will no longer “hodl” on to support for mining apps in the iOS App Store. The guidelines say that cryptocurrency mining will be disallowed in App Store apps unless the processing is being performed off-device such as on a remote server or…
Bethesda is establishing itself as the first game publisher to fully embrace omnipresent gaming, and it doesn't mind poking fun at itself for it. Omnipresence is something which is everywhere. Bethesda has a reputation for making its games available to as many platforms as possible, but the company is taking it up a notch with…
C is one of the most common languages taught at university, even though more modern languages like Java and Python are considered easier to learn. Why is that? Well, learning C is considered a good foundation for learning fancier languages later, as you get a better idea of what is going on behind the scenes…
A notice of OpenGL’s deprecation in Apple’s documentation has game developers threatening to abandon the company’s platforms. OpenGL has been a tried-and-trusted library for cross-platform game developers for decades. Up-and-coming APIs like Vulkan and Apple’s own Metal offer promising alternatives, but many projects still use OpenGL. Dan Omachi, Software Engineer at Apple, explained during a…