Introduction Playing with small civilian drones is fun. Building them is even better! For those of you who are interested in developing your own “smart” drone, this article provides...

  I’m Jean-Claude Cottier, a video game industry veteran. I’ve been working in this field for the last 18 years and in 2008, I’ve setup my own solo game studio: Ovogame. Recently,...

  This post is to help you learn on how to use Intel WiDi technology to project/beam your app onto a bigger screen (TV, Laptop, Monitor). We will be using the example of an app named "Grace" f...

  Here's a guide on how to integrate map and geolocation features into an Android business app. This guide specfically tells you on how to includes overlaying store locations on Google Maps*, using...

  More and more Android devices have Intel Inside. Besides getting your hands on Intel-based Android devices to test your apps and make sure they deliver the best experience for your users, there are se...

  In Android, it is very easy to create an app that can play video clips; it is also easy to create a game app with 3D graphic surface. But it is not straightforward to create an app that can play...

  The fact that games are your best bet for getting a healthy and quick response you your Android app on Google Play Store. While gaming apps do score the highest in terms of downloads, popularity and a...

  Introduction This article discusses the development of Clifford’s Reading Adventures, a series of interactive educational games for young children from Scholastic Interactive LLC. T...

  When configuring touch targets to control other elements of a scene, it’s important to minimize the screen space that the controlling elements occupy. In this way, you can devote more of the Ult...

   OpenCL™ Basic Tutorial for Android* OS provides guidelines on using OpenCL in Android applications. The tutorial is an interactive image processing Android application. The main focus for...

   Intel(R) CilkTM Plus is a set of language extension of Intel(R) compiler, which can help to quickly and easily implement parallelism and vectorization for C/C++ code. You may refer to its m...

  Android apps are typically written in Java* because of its elegant object-oriented design and the fact that the Android Software Development Kit (Android SDK) provides cross-platform features in Java....

  The H.265/HEVC standard is becoming more and more popular in the mobile market. Online video providers, mobile Internet users, and broadcast/TV operators are the beneficiaries of this new video revolu...

  Mobile applications can behave differently between emulator and device and, as an app grows more and more complex, debugging performance bottlenecks can become extremely difficult. The GPA System Anal...

  This tutorial explains how to use Intel® INDE Media Pack for Android* to add video capturing capability to Unity applications. Prerequisites: Unity 4.3.0. Capturing works as a fullscreen...

  Most Android applications, even those based only on scripting and managed languages (Java*, HTML5,...) eventually use middleware features that would benefit from optimization. This article willl di...

  Introduction When Dmitriy Golonanov, the CEO of the international company, Maestro Music Software, learned that many musicians would rather use a lightweight tablet than carry a laptop to gigs or a...

  Multicore processors have been around for many years, and today, they can be found in most devices. However, many developers are doing what they've always done: creating single-threaded programs....

  Introduction Low battery life is one of the most serious issues currently plaguing mobile devices in general and Ultrabook™ devices and tablets specifically. Users have become accustomed to s...

  Abstract Tencent wanted to give gamers the best experience on Intel® Ultrabook™ and 2 in 1 systems. Legend of Xuan Yuan was already a successful game, but these systems provided Tencent w...

  Introduction Mobile games with stunning graphics and realistic physics are now possible due to the increasing compute power now available on mobile devices. Effects such as grenade explosions in sh...

  Introduction Android* applications may require a peer-to-peer connection between two or more Android* devices without a Wi-Fi access point or Internet access. Two examples of this are file sharing...

  Cocos2D is a game engine that works with various devices from PCs to smart phones. This engine supports the vast majority of the features needed to make wonderful 2D-based games; it even includes a fu...

  Security Enhancements for Android (SEAndroid) Android has added some new features to the 4.4 version of the Android OS ("Kitkat"). The most important change among the new features is the...

  A darling among Google’s Nexus lineup of devices, one that actually created waves by selling at an atrociously low unlocked price in the US (where people are only ever used to buying phones with...

  Trine* 2 from Frozenbyte, Inc. struggled with optimal playability on Intel® processor-based touchscreens and 2 in 1s running Windows* 8. Supporting varied play styles and local multiplayer require...

  Download PDF When developing games and simulations, you may want your users to be able to influence assets that are active in a physics simulation. In this article, you learn how to develop a Unity...

  Download PDF 1. Introduction This article gives a brief overview of Rover, then focuses on our implementation of the human-robot interface utilizing the Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK for g...

  While India has kept in step with the way the Internet is used in the West in most aspects, we’re still behind when it comes to consuming streaming content. Apart from YouTube and some music and...

  With augmented reality (AR) reaching smartphones, tablets, wearables (such as Google Glass*), and other platforms, the market is ripe for an AR development explosion across every conceivable applicati...

  Many people take medication, sometimes multiple times per day, to help them stay healthy. Making sure meds are taken on time and in the right doses requires an individual to be vigilant and discipline...

  Innovations in computing form factors such as All-in-One (AIO) and tablet devices that combine desktop-like performance with multi-touch-enabled, high-resolution screens are giving people fun new ways...

  As almost every component in your PC can be tweaked to get better performance, SSDs are no different. Not a lot of people know that they can adjust a few different settings in their systems to ooze ou...

  Picked up a brand spanking new SSD? or thinking about getting one to improve the performance of your PC or laptop? Well, you’ll need to know how to go about installing or mounting it once you ha...

  A gamer’s life is a hard one. Games pop up left and right and by the dozens and really, how many games can a gamer play in the limited time that he has at his disposal? And it’s not just g...

  You might have heard of the term ‘UX’ quite often. Ever wonder what it is? Or did you merely dismiss it thinking that it’s something related to the UI? The UX has become an important...

  Overview With Android x86-based Intel® architecture devices increasing in prominence in the marketplace, the libGDX team set out to ensure developers could seamlessly deploy their games and app...

  Intel has a vested interest in helping developers provide Android applications that run well (or even best) on Intel architecture. While Intel is working at the community level - optimizing Dalvik Jav...

  More and more Android devices have Intel Inside. Besides getting your hands on Intel-based Android devices to test your apps and make sure they deliver the best experience for your users, there are se...

  When developing an Android* application, you usually need to test, optimize, and debug on many different platforms. While basically every hardware and chip manufacturer provides a set of custom tools...

  Introduction Modern user interface design has evolved dramatically in the last few years, with animation-rich interactions becoming the norm. On mobile devices, where screen space is at a premium a...

  Intro RenderScript is a scripting language on Android. You can use it to write high performance graphics rendering and raw computational code. The RenderScript API includes high performance func...

  Abstract In mobile apps, using a simple database backend such as SQLite can be useful in a variety of use cases. In this article we will take a look at Android* SQLite API and helper classes for da...

   Debugging Android* NDK apps with Eclipse* and gdb Eclipse* with ADT plugin and CDT, all part of the ADT bundle, support the Android* NDK quite well. You can even use gdb integration to debug yo...

  In this article I will be demonstrating how to create a basic Node.js application using Intel Mashery's JamBase API with Intel Edison and XDK. You will find accompanying GitHub source in the provi...

  I want to start this blog with a big thank you to all of our Intel® XDK users for the enthusiastic, positive feedback to our July release of Cordova* Plugins support. It shows that we are on the r...

  Last year this month Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich introduced the world to the Intel Edison chip. This year he is introducing to us the Intel Curie, a button sized module using the Intel Quark SE SoC...

  Introduction Bluetooth* LE (BLE) communication use is exploding both in commercial products and hobby applications, mainly due to its low-cost and low-power requirements. This makes it an excellent...

  This DIY project shows you how to convert a store-bought toothbrush holder into an IoT home appliance. The Intel® Edison board provides the small form factor and computing power to encourage healt...

  First time users of Intel® HAXM can occasionally run into situations where they are not sure if their Android* emulator is in fact using HAXM technology. This article will provide the necessary st...