Archive for July 2011

Tutorial: Transitions in Cocos2d

Cocos2d is beautiful. It really is. One of the best features is the transitions between scenes. In order to transition between two scenes, you only need one line of code and it is as follows: [[CCDirector sharedDirector] replaceScene:[CCTransitionCrossFade transitionWithDuration:0.5f scene:[NewScene scene]]]; In the example above, the visual transition is CCTransitionCrossFade. At the moment there are

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Tutorial: SimpleAudioEngine

Intro I wanted to kick off the tutorials here on Paw Apps blog with a very simple introduction to the SimpleAudioEngine.  For official documentation check out the Cocos2d API reference here: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/api-ref/1.0.0/interface_simple_audio_engine.html. Before you get started working through the examples, the only setup required is that you drag an audio file into your Resources directory in

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Welcome to Paw Apps

Hi, my name is Jason and I am one of the co-founders of Paw Apps.  The other co-founder is my brother, Tyler.  We started Paw Apps to gain experience in the mobile device development industry and to really just have a good time doing what we love.  We are currently hard at work developing our first app and have really enjoyed, thus far, learning about iPhone development and the whole business startup process…

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