Beginning Android Games

by Mario Zechner

Beginning Android Games offers everything you need to join the ranks of successful Android game developers. You'll start with game design fundamentals and programming basics, and then progress towards creating your own basic game engine and playable games. This will give you everything you need to branch out and write your own Android games.

The potential user base and the wide array of available high-performance devices makes Android an attractive target for aspiring game developers. Do you have an awesome idea for the next break-through mobile gaming title? Beginning Android Games will help you kick-start your project.

The book will guide you through the process of making several example games for the Android platform, and involves a wide range of



The fundamentals of game development
The Android platform basics to apply those fundamentals in the context of making a game
The design of 2D and 3D games and their successful implementation on the Android platform

For those looking to learn about Android tablet game app development or want Android 4 SDK specific coverage, check out Beginning Android 4 Games Development, now available from Apress.

Genres: Programming

704 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 2010

Reviews

[Karol Legerd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Coming from a development or learning mindset like the one in Beginning Android Games, it’s interesting to see how progression systems work not just in code but in live games too, and for players diving into Destiny 2 who want to understand and reach the legendary campaign https://boostmatch.gg/destiny-2/level... power cap more smoothly, this can be a helpful way to team up and move forward without unnecessary grind.

[Sammypbaird · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm about a third the way through and am very impressed with how he covers each topic very succinctly and clearly. I've written a few android games before reading this book, and now I can see that I've been hacking a lot of code together. He provides a nice, structured framework to base your code around that makes sense. A few times I've read something and suddenly realized why my code didn't work very well and why the way he writes is makes so much more sense.

I'm excited to write my first game after finishing the book!

[Andrew Dalgleish · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this book. It walks you through building a game using basic and then more advanced techniques. The author structures his code nicely to ensure the user isn't hacking together something, but instead building a nice framework. Overview of OpenGL is adequate - I found some of the explanations a bit confusing, but polygon graphics isn't exactly easy. Overall good job.

[Nathan Campos · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really a great book for app developers that want to become game developers or that simply want to create astonishing 3D apps.