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About David Wilkinson
David has been working in the IT industry for over twenty years, spending much of that time promoting the use of the Internet as a serious commercial tool. Pioneering innovative uses of Internet technologies, he was responsible for some of the very first e-commerce sites to be built and was creating dynamic content and performing session tracking long before Netscape invented the cookie. Currently, he spends his days as an independent consultant, working with both small companies and large blue chip organisations, helping them figure out how to solve all those really difficult problems.Building Glitch Run in iOS
Glitch Run In previous blog posts, we’ve seen how to perform authentication with Glitch in iOS and how to animate Glitch Avatars. With just those two things under our belt, we can starting doing some really interesting things – and what better place to start than building a game. In this post, we’ll see how we can take a basic [...]
Avatar Animations in iOS
If you take a brief look at the Glitch API, you’ll see that it’s very easy to get a PNG image of your player’s avatar. The URL to the image is returned by a call to players.info, and if you want different sized versions, you can find those within players.fullInfo. players.info: “avatar_url” : “http:\/\/c2.glitch.bz\/avatars\/2011-10-09\/519a4838c399f998f3a425e8ae7ccea4_1318173267_172.png” players.fullInfo: “avatar” : { “172″ : [...]
Glitch-ification of an iOS Runner
There’s an old saying in Ur, that “clothes maketh the Glitch”, and it’s true that a quick visit to the wardrobe can turn your average run-of-the-mill Glitch into a sharply-dressed, snazzy-looking little fellow. Donning a smart new outfit certainly makes folk around you sit up and take notice – perhaps there is more to you than first met the eye. [...]
Understanding Authentication Scopes
One of the most important things to understand about the Glitch authentication system is that there are different levels of permission, each of which allows you to do a different set of things. These levels of permission are called scopes. At the most basic level, there are a whole bunch of API methods you can call that don’t require any [...]
Glitch iOS Authentication Tutorial
This is a basic introduction to the Glitch iOS SDK, as well as an in-depth tutorial over OAuth in iOS. The iOS SDK can be found here: https://github.com/tinyspeck/glitch-ios-sdk Create an API Key In order to use the SDK, you need an API key. Open up GlitchConfig.h in the Glitch iOS SDK folder. In there, you’ll see two #defines: #define GCRedirectURI @”" [...]
