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Klitos September 18, 2015Uncategorized Leave a comment

How-to do heavy background processes on LibGDX, while showing a splash screen

This article concerns fellow programmers that use libGDX. We hope you will find it useful. I am sure every game developer has come to this point when your game runs smoothly after it is loaded but it takes some time to load and you want to make the user feel that nothing is wrong, your game is running and loading, but instead he sees a black screen or the app delays to launch. Well I had the same problem and … Continue reading “How-to do heavy background processes on LibGDX, while showing a splash screen”

Klitos November 28, 2014November 30, 2014Uncategorized Leave a comment

Duckseason goes GDG

GDG Dev Fest 2014(agenda) welcomes duckseason!! Klitos Giannakopoulos will speak about Android and will host a workshop with title “Cruising Android Maps API” on Nov 29 at Nikolaos Germanos Conference Center, Pavillion 8, Helexpo Thessaloniki. You can find more information on the workshop on this link. The presentation and code will be available here after the event. As promised the code, the worksheet and the presentation are available here

admin May 3, 2014Newsdependency injection, java, programming Leave a comment

Duckseason’s George Gaganis about Dependency Injection

George Gaganis has spoken on Friday, May 2, 2014 at 7:00pm At City College, about Dependency Injection; how it works, the pros and the implications that duckseason faced when they adopted it for their new project. More details here. You can find the presentation slides here: depencency_injection.odp The code examples are available on github Follow Giorgos on Google+,Twitter

Klitos April 1, 2014April 1, 2014Maintainancemaintainance, Memory Duel, New Year Champagne, ranking, scores, Shake the Bottle Leave a comment

Maintainance on Ranking System

Dear friends, We are changing our network configuration and this might affect our games’ ranking system. In the next 24 hours our ranking system might be unavailable due to these changes. This affects all versions of our games Shake the Bottle, New Year Champagne and Memory Duel. In case you make a high score while our servers are unavailable, do not worry, this is not lost! Our games are designed to keep the score locally and submit it automatically when … Continue reading “Maintainance on Ranking System”

Klitos February 27, 2014February 28, 2014Instructionsamazon apps, android, calculator, mobile apps, samsung apps Leave a comment

Εγκαταστήστε το Calculator Ultimate μέσω του Amazon Appstore ή του Samsung Apps

For the english version of this post, please click here. Φίλοι της duckseason, Για αρκετό καιρό η γραφειοκρατία δεν μας επέτρεπε να διαθέσουμε το Calculator Ultimate στην Ελλάδα. Αυτό, επιτέλους εδώ και μερικούς μήνες έχει αλλάξει. Η Google συνεχίζει να μην μας επιτρέπει να διαθέσουμε εφαρμογές προς πώληση μέσω του Google Play, αλλά πλέον υπάρχουν εναλλακτικές! Μπορείτε να κατεβάσετε το Calculator Ultimate (την πλήρη έκδοση) μέσω: του Samsung Apps (εαν διαθέτετε συσκευή Samsung τότε έχετε το Samsung Apps application προ-εγκατεστημένο) … Continue reading “Εγκαταστήστε το Calculator Ultimate μέσω του Amazon Appstore ή του Samsung Apps”

Klitos February 26, 2014February 26, 2014News, Updatescalculator, Calculator Ultimate Lite, samsung apps Leave a comment

Calculator Ultimate Lite temporarily unavailable on Samsung Apps

Dear friends, Due to a Samsung Apps feature update, Calculator Ultimate Lite will be temporarily unavailable for download for the next a few days. This is not something permanent and it does not affect the Full Version of Calculator Ultimate. After this short period, Calculator Ultimate Lite will available for more Samsung devices In the meanwhile you can download Calculator Ultimate Lite through Amazon Appstore here and through Google Play here We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Klitos February 22, 2014February 27, 2014Instructionsamazon apps, android, calculator, mobile apps, samsung apps Leave a comment

How to install ‘Calculator Ultimate’ on your Android device

Hello friends of duckseason, Lately we had support requests for Calculator Ultimate, like “I cannot find full version” or “How can I download it”. Actually, bureaucracy prevents us from making Calculator Ultimate available through Google Play, so let us try clear everything out. For the greek version of this post, please click here. Calculator Ultimate (full version) is available through: Samsung Apps (Only samsung devices have access there) Amazon Appstore (As far as we can tell, Amazon.com sells worldwide and … Continue reading “How to install ‘Calculator Ultimate’ on your Android device”

Giorgos Gaganis February 5, 2014February 11, 2014Technical Articlesandroid, gradle, how-to, libgdx, programming 1 Comment

How-to setup gradle for existing libgdx multi-project using the Google android plug-in.

This article concerns fellow programmers that use libGDX. We hope you will find it useful. We are using libgdx to develop our upcomming game. To manage the project configuration and building, we had been using the gdx-setup-ui.jar at the beginning and then we created a gradle setup using the jvoegele/gradle-android-plugin. Unfortunately this plug-in was discontinued when Google released its own tool-chain based on Gradle. So after a couple of updates of the Android SDK our setup stopped working and we … Continue reading “How-to setup gradle for existing libgdx multi-project using the Google android plug-in.”

admin December 21, 2013February 5, 2014Newsupgrade, website Leave a comment

Welcome to our new website

Dear Friends, Duckseason’s new website is up and running after much planning and a lot of delaying, and it is a big improvement to our I-know-nothing-about-building-websites-How-hard-can-it-be previous version. Although it has served us well until now, it is time it went to our archive. We hope that you will like this upgrade, and that you will find it cool and a lot more useful. We are still improving things so if you find anything not working as it should, please … Continue reading “Welcome to our new website”

admin May 15, 2012December 21, 2013Newsandroid, mobile apps, samsung, samsung apps Leave a comment

Duckseason products distributed World Wide through Samsung Apps

We are glad to announce that our products are now available World Wide for Samsung Android devices through Samsung Apps. Calculator Ultimate Lite is already available for most Samsung devices and more are coming. Calculator Ultimate will becoming available during the next days for all Samsung Android Devices. We hope that everybody will benefit from this opportunity and find a useful tool on our application. As new products become available from duckseason you will be able to find them on … Continue reading “Duckseason products distributed World Wide through Samsung Apps”