Beginning Android Games, Second Edition offers everything you need to join the ranks of successful Android game developers, including Android tablet game app development considerations. You'll start with game design fundamentals and programming basics, and then progress toward creating your own basic game engine and playable game apps that work on Android and earlier version compliant smartphones and now tablets. 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. This book will guide you through the process of making several example game apps using APIs available in new Android SDK and earlier SDK releases for Android smartphones and tablets: The fundamentals of game development and design suitable for Android smartphones and tablets The Android platform basics to apply those fundamentals in the context of making a game, including new File Manager system and better battery life management The design of 2D and 3D games and their successful implementation on the Android platform This book lets developers see and use some Android SDK Jelly Bean; however, this book is structured so that app developers can use earlier Android SDK releases. This book is backward compatible like the Android SDK.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. Kg
ISBN-13
9781430246770
eBay Product ID (ePID)
138793607
Product Key Features
Author
Robert Green, Mario Zechner
Publication Name
Beginning Android Games
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Engineering & Technology, Computer Science
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
714 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
254mm
Item Width
178mm
Item Weight
1338g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Robert Green, Mario Zechner
Country/Region of Manufacture
Germany
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