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Today i saw a question on the forum  at cocos2d-x.org asking about how to get the cocos2d-x application to run as a live wallpaper. Most of the basics come from the sample application provided by google, but since cocos2d-x is designed under the assumption that its' always used as an application you will have to change a few things here and there. So ive' quickly made some dirty adjustments to the code pasted on the forum to get the sample code running as a live wallpaper. Here is the screenshot of the default one running. Sample Cocos2D-x app as Live Wallpaper Im' excited to see what the cocos2d-x app devs can do once they start developing the live wallpapers. .. Here are the steps you should follow: 1) Open the .java file created in proj.android/src/your packagename/*.java 2) Modify it based on the java file embedded below. 3) Modify the AndroidManifest.xml file to make it behave like a wallpaper. Build and deploy the app just like any other cocos2d-x ap...

The last couple of days i have been trying to squash all the memory leaks in our game, this gave me a better understanding about the memory management used by cocos2d-x. It's a little different but with a little care you can get it right. Here are a few facts you should know  Every CCObject has a reference count of 1 when it is created.  If you call autorelease() and dont' retain the CCObject you don't have to call release()  CCNode's destructor calls release() on all its' children once(because it calls retain() in addChild())  If you call retain() or new on a CCObject you have to call release()  This is all straight forward, in fact this is all mentioned in the wiki on cocos2d-x.org website. It gets' tricky when you start using CCTouchDispatcher's targeted delegate and the CCBReader. When you load a ".ccbi" file the following happens: CCBAnimationManager calls retain() on RootNode of the "ccb" RootNode of the "c...