Dean Ellis

Use MSBuild to Define Advanced Android VersionCode

June 28th, 2018

With the introduction of Xamarin.Android v7.2, two new MSBuild properties were also introduced in order to make maintaining Android VersionCode for Android apps even easier: Advanced Android VersionCode Typically, to change the version number on an Android application you need to edit the AndroidManifest.xml file and update the ...

Building Your First Game with MonoGame: Finishing the App

February 12th, 2016

Learning to build games has a reputation for being difficult. MonoGame, a cross-platform gaming framework based on Microsoft's XNA framework, makes it easy. Yesterday, we walked through the process of building a user interface, complete with sounds, textures, and other assets, for MonkeyTap, a Whack-a-Mole style game where gamers must tap...

Build Your First Game with MonoGame: Getting Started

February 11th, 2016

Game development is what got many developers into programming. But how many of us actually ever learned how to create games? Creating games can be challenging, but it doesn't have to be that way! MonoGame is a cross-platform gaming framework based on Microsoft's XNA framework that's extremely easy to learn. Best of all, games you build ...