Monthly Archives: March 2011

Cricket 0.1 preview now available!

Posted on March 31, 2011 by steve

A preview release of the Cricket audio engine is now available for download… for free! Currently works on Android, iOS, and Mac OS X (Windows support is coming soon). The authoring tools work on both Mac OS X and Windows. … Continue reading →

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Hiding implementation in C++

Posted on March 21, 2011 by steve

Let’s say you’re designing a C++ API.  You have some class like this, which is part of your interface : #include “MyData.h” class Sound { public: Sound(); ~Sound(); void play(); private: MyData m_data; }; Since the class MyData is a … Continue reading →

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MultiChannelMixer Audio Unit on Mac OS

Posted on March 10, 2011 by steve

I’m using the Audio Unit API in Core Audio to play sound on iOS.  Since there is a similar API on OS X, it’s been mostly trivial to port the iOS audio code to OS X; for the most part, … Continue reading →

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C++ development on iOS and Android

Posted on March 10, 2011 by steve

The basic interface for the Cricket engine is C++, as is most of the implementation.  Objective-C is the primary development language on iOS, and Java is the preferred language on Android, but both platforms support C++ also; C++ code can … Continue reading →

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Hello, blogosphere!

Posted on March 10, 2011 by steve

Testing, testing, testing.  (tap tap tap.) Is this thing on? Welcome to the official Cricket Technologies blog.  I’ll be posting here periodically with news and updates about development on the Cricket audio engine, a cross-platform audio engine for iOS and … Continue reading →

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