Gadgetory

I believe that the best tool for Android game development is unity it makes the whole process so much quicker and simpler so much so that in this video I'm going to show how you can get something up and running in just yep that's me so you're probably wondering how I got here what it all started a few years ago hey there guys thanks for tuning in so I've been making videos with under Authority for about a year now but I still get comments on video sometimes asking Who I am where I came from who is this guy what does he know who does he think he is so I thought I'd take the time to introduce myself and say hi so my name is Adam schnitz ki it's very nice to meet you that's a Polish name in case you're wondering I'm half Polish quarter German but born in England I currently live near Oxford in a town called mr. with my lovely wife Hannah we've lived here about a year and prior to that we were living in London before that I lived in Bournemouth which is where I was born and raised and I still visit back there very often I also do a lot of commuting into London it's a nice easy trip from where I am now so most the time you'll find me in coffee shops in Oxford or London or Vista or you'll find me in my office upstairs working for agile Authority or working on one of my many other projects when I'm not working things I like include going to the gym Electric Light Orchestra writing programming computer games comic books tuna sandwiches synth wave music traveling when I get the opportunity to seeing friends nobody your hobby is it lamp love my Nintendo switch at the moment technology in general gadgets reading Dragonball 80s action movies wrong psychology and neuroscience nootropics calisthenics Alice Cooper m83 Schiller martial arts Wells do I like there's probably loads of other stuff I like but my main hobbies are definitely Fitness and Technology and I'm quite lucky in that I've managed to make those things into my career so my interest in technology goes a long way back probably I was about six my first buta was a ZX Spectrum I also had a Tatem Einstein and I kind of missed those days when technology was less user-friendly when it was all green screens and you were just greeted with a prompt to enter basic code instead of you know a nice touch friendly interface I found it a lot more exciting that way it was like this hidden world that other people didn't necessarily understand I love to Sonic the Hedgehog my friends all had sega mega drives but I wasn't allowed to play computer games so instead I decided to start making my own and with the help from a kid at school I started to learn a little bit of basic that I could use on my ZX spectrum to that end eventually I was allowed a proper laptop and I got a AST 486 and I learned to programming qbasic on that they also developed into a love of gadgets and technology in general my first phone was either the Nokia 3310 or 3210 but after that I got some more exciting and interesting stuff I got the Nokia ngage running Symbian which was quite a cool thing back then I was really into the ipact devices from the likes of HP and I had one with a stylus and an attachable keyboard and I installed games like Tomb Raider on it in many ways that was a smartphone before smartphones my first actual smartphone was when I was on placement year at university and I got a iPhone actually but then after that I got much more interested in Android because it had that whole hacker appeal of being out the tinkerer and changed things just like those old green screens back in the day and the first Android device I got was a Dell Streak and this was a huge phablet I've always liked unusual looking technology I hate the fact that every phone looks the same today the Dell Streak was a phablet before even the first note meanwhile whilst I was going through school and sick form I got really into fitness I really wanted to be an action hero or a superhero really I never grew out of that likeness of postie so I started bodybuilding in inverted commas in my bedroom curling little dumbbells doing lots of press ups and I eventually one teen bodybuilder of the week on bodybuilding.com which was actually quite a big deal at the time and I got loads of fan mail and emails and that led to me having my first a website built for me for free and that was my first foray into web design then as I went into university I decided I wanted to continue with that kind of self-improvement angle so I took psychology and also just because I really enjoyed that at sixth form whilst I was there I carried on working on websites I had a friend who was very into internet marketing and he taught me how he could monetize a website how you could place ads on it a little bit about SEO so I started to build that site make a little bit money on the side and just understand how that whole industry works University was great that's where I met many of my best friends to this day it's where I met my wife she wasn't my wife then and we also had this thing where you take a year out into a placement year experience the real world get a job before coming back to finish your degree so I did a year working in Leeds at writers news so I got some experience as a journalist I was also really into writing at the time and I loved that and then I came back and graduated during my final year like most students I was struggling a little bit with money and I decided I could try and earn a little bit of extra cash on the side so I already knew that I could make money from a website although it wasn't really earning that much and I knew how to write now and I thought well if I can make money from a website than other people obviously camp - I'll write for them and charge per words so I did that I put an advert out online on a website called digital point forum and then I got some work and I started just writing sending off articles that I've written and getting paid per word for those and the more I write the more I earned and then when I left University I realized I don't actually have to get a proper job I can do this on a full-time basis so I started just writing I moved out of my mom's house and moved in with my mate booth and I got to extend my kind of a university experience because I could write at any time of day again writing in coffee shops I was living in Bournemouth by the beach sitting in cafes watching the world go by typing up and then going out with friends visiting my wife who wasn't my wife at the time who lived near Oxford and I could just live the lifestyle I wanted I got to travel a little bit more working online was great my main topics were fitness and technology and that's what I got paid to write the most but unfortunately I also had to write an awful lot of dross on topics had no idea about like bricklaying and car windows and things just for companies that needed Internet content in order to get their site to the top of Google so I wasn't really enjoying that side of it and it was ghost writing so it wasn't very rewarding sobs I wanted to work on my own project on the side so one of those projects was to developed my coding skills I used a tool called basic for Android or B for a to build an app for Android called multi screen multitasking and the idea of this app was to create a way around the fact that at the time you couldn't do split-screen between two apps still remember being at a party and I was checking sales of the app on my phone and I suddenly saw them spike and I realized they were climbing and climbing and I got so excited it wasn't great fun at this particles I just kept checking them and thinking wow this idea I've had has taken off and the world is excited by it that party then turned a little bit dark and weird but that's a different story and escaping the inspiration as well to work on other apps and ideas so I learned Android studio and Java how to create apps the proper way not using basic and launched a few more different projects some of which were fairly successful some of which weren't so successful and then my big next idea was to work with the YouTuber cold fusion who'd inspired me when I first got into Android so I approached him and said would you like me to work on your boxers app and he said let's go for it so he did the design and had the idea and I just handled the code and he was he's a fantastic designer so the app looked great it was the nicest guy and he has a big audience already so the app was again a little bit of a hit in while I was also working on my own website cuz I still want to talk about fitness and training and performance and neuroscience and I added the YouTube component to that which wasn't a big hit at all but it was just something I loved doing and then I think that combination of things attracted the attention of Android Authority the fact that I'd made an app that was quite successful the fact that I've worked with ColdFusion the fact I had a YouTube channel so they got in touch and said would you like to do some work for us so at the begin with I just started writing articles for them mainly development articles but then eventually they said would you like to make some YouTube videos as well would you like to attend some events and I was like yes please so that was awesome so I've been working here with them for the last year and it's been fantastic I got to meet a lot of the team recently in San Francisco and there's a nicest bunch of guys they've helped my video skills a lot as well as my writing and yes it's been a fantastic experience I've loved some other devices getting to play with gadgets getting to write getting to make youtube videos like this one so yeah it's been it's been quite a ride and I've been very lucky I've had a lot of cool opportunities and I've somehow managed to avoid doing any proper work for coming up for eight nine years and I still got loads of other products on the go I recently had my first book published on unity development making games for Android I'm currently making educational videos for a publishing company I still run my own website and blog and blog and in fact the YouTube channel that I was talking about has become fairly successful I'm reaching 17,000 ish subscribers there I talk about fitness bodybuilding neuroscience if you'd like to check that out you can find me over there as well just search the bio near on YouTube and you'll find it will go to wwww on and yeah and I'm still writing for clients as well on the side and I just love having my finger and lots of pies doing all these different things and getting all these great opportunities by the way you can also follow me on social media if you'd like to i'm sure the links will be in the description down below i'm the bio near on Twitter and Instagram and I'll be messaging there whenever I upload something new to my channel or anvil Authority and also just chatting about general stuff would love to see you over there and that's really what I love about technology is the fact that you can be you can have an idea and you can make that idea on your computer and then click send or done upload and then the whole world sees it and it can lead to incredible things it's just amazing what you can do with the internet you know the world is your oyster and just if find what you love I put it out there keep doing it put in lots of effort you know make sure it's really your passion develop your skills and anything's possible and that's also why I like Android so much in particular because it has that customizability has that open nature so it means anyone can tweak it anyone can release an app anyone can make their phone do exactly what they want to they can you know I do a lot of work from my phone i chat to these guys on slack and yeah it's just you know the world has opened up so much and it's all thanks to technology androids a big part of that and I'm so excited and privileged to be able to talk about it with you guys so thanks a ton from watching I'm still also very new to all this I'm still definitely learning still finding my own style my own workflow so please bear with me recently been doing these seven-minute videos I've been doing how to's for a while and open to do more reviews so let me know in the comments down below what you think how I can improve and I really appreciate all the comments you've left safer on these videos and if you have any more questions that I haven't covered in this video then likewise hit me up in the comments down below and I'd love to meet you guys so please introduce yourselves and I'll see you down there on one fun fact about me I was once on the English version of x-factor so thanks ton for watching guys I hope you found this interesting some waft I hope I didn't ramble on too long and boy to sleep if you did please hit like subscribe to the channel if you want more on Android and technology and of course check out Android or 30.com for we are your source for all things 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