Mastering Android Game Development

Book Description

Master game development with the Android SDK to develop highly interactive and amazing games

About This Book

• Develop complex Android games from scratch
• Learn the internals of a game engine by building one
• A succinct, hands-on guide to enhance your game development skills with Android SDK

Who This Book Is For

If you are an intermediate-level Android developer who wants to create highly interactive and amazing games with the Android SDK, then this book is for you.

In Detail

Gaming has historically been a strong driver of technology, whether we’re talking about hardware or software performance, the variety of input methods, or graphics support, and the Android game platform is no different. Android is a mature, yet still growing, platform that many game developers have embraced as it provides tools, APIs, and services to help bootstrap Android projects and ensure their success, many of which are specially designed to help game developers.

This book is a progressive, hands-on guide to developing highly interactive and complex Android games from scratch. You will learn all the aspects of developing a game using a space shooter game as the example that will evolve with you through the chapters. You will learn all about frame-by-frame animations and resource animations. You will also create beautiful and responsive menus and dialogs and explore the different options for playing sound effects and music in Android.

You will then learn the basics of creating a particle system and how to use the Leonids library. Finally, we will configure and use Google Play Services on the developer console and port our game to the big screen.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Setting Up The Project
Chapter 2. Managing User Input
Chapter 3. Into The Draw Thread
Chapter 4. Collision Detection
Chapter 5. Particle Systems
Chapter 6. Sound Fx And Music
Chapter 7. Menus And Dialogs
Chapter 8. The Animation Framework
Chapter 9. Integrating Google Play Services
Chapter 10. To The Big Screen

中文：

书名：Mastering Android Game Development

用Android SDK掌握游戏开发，开发互动性强、令人惊叹的游戏

About This Book

• 从头开始开发复杂的Android游戏
• 通过构建游戏引擎来学习游戏引擎的内部原理
• 使用Android SDK增强您的游戏开发技能的简明动手指南

这本书是为谁写的

如果你是一名中级Android开发人员，想要用Android SDK创建高度交互且令人惊叹的游戏，那么这本书是为你准备的。

In Detail

从历史上看，游戏一直是技术的强大推动力，无论我们谈论的是硬件或软件的性能、输入方法的多样性，还是对图形的支持，Android游戏平台也不例外。Android是一个成熟的，但仍在发展中的平台，许多游戏开发商已经接受了它，因为它提供了工具、API和服务来帮助引导Android项目并确保它们的成功，其中许多都是专门为帮助游戏开发商而设计的。

这本书是一本循序渐进的实践指南，帮助您从头开始开发高度交互且复杂的Android游戏。您将学习开发游戏的所有方面，使用太空射击游戏作为示例，将随着您的章节而发展。您将了解有关逐帧动画和资源动画的所有内容。您还将创建漂亮且响应迅速的菜单和对话框，并探索在Android中播放音效和音乐的不同选项。

然后，您将学习创建粒子系统的基础知识以及如何使用Leonids库。最后，我们将在开发者控制台上配置和使用Google Play服务，并将我们的游戏移植到大屏幕上。

目录表

Chapter 1. Setting Up The Project
Chapter 2. Managing User Input
Chapter 3. Into The Draw Thread
Chapter 4. Collision Detection
第五章粒子系统
Chapter 6. Sound Fx And Music
第7章菜单和对话框
第八章：动画框架
第9章.集成Google Play服务
第十章：走向大银幕