BuildBox

Is It Any Good?

Since it’s release in January of 2015, over 40 games built by BuildBox have been featured on Apple’s Featured page. More top 100 hits have been built with BuildBox in the past 1.5+ years than the other game builders combined.

Colorswitch, a game built with BuildBox, has over 75 million downloads. It was created in less than a week. With stats like that…yeah, it’s “any good.”

Buildbox states its goal simply: “design the ultimate game builder that allows anyone to make a video game.”

Based on their metrics, it certainly seems like they succeeded

Eclipce

What is Eclipse?

In the context of computing, Eclipse is an integrated development environment (IDE) for developing applications using the Java programming language and other programming languages such as C/C++, Python, PERL, Ruby etc.

The Eclipse platform which provides the foundation for the Eclipse IDE is composed of plug-ins and is designed to be extensible using additional plug-ins. Developed using Java, the Eclipse platform can be used to develop rich client applications, integrated development environments and other tools. Eclipse can be used as an IDE for any programming language for which a plug-in is available.

The Java Development Tools (JDT) project provides a plug-in that allows Eclipse to be used as a Java IDE, PyDev is a plugin that allows Eclipse to be used as a Python IDE, C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) is a plug-in that allows Eclipse to be used for developing application using C/C++, the Eclipse Scala plug-in allows Eclipse to be used an IDE to develop Scala applications and PHPeclipse is a plug-in to eclipse that provides complete development tool for PHP.

Android Studio

Getting Started

Welcome to Training for Android developers. Here you'll find training classes that describe how to accomplish a specific task with code samples you can re-use in your app. Classes are organized into several groups you can see at the top-level of the left navigation.

The first training guides below teach you the essentials for Android app development. If you're a new Android app developer, you should complete each of these classes in order.

Various online video courses are also available if you'd prefer an interactive video experience.

Xcode

Get Started

This Xcode tutorial is updated for Xcode 8.2. If you’re using an earlier version, I’d recommend to update to the latest version because there are significant changes to the Swift programming language that you’ll only get with the latest version of Xcode.

While this guide only covers how to use Xcode, you can get an overall view of how to make iOS apps by reading my How to Make an App with No Programming Experience guide.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

Where to download Xcode 8
The 5 main parts of the Xcode development environment
How to use the iOS simulator to test your app

By the end of this Xcode tutorial, you’ll have a basic understanding of how to navigate the development environment and how to create your first Xcode project.