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Android Games
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o you remember landmark games like Wolfenstein™ 3D, Doom, and As-
teroids™? Well, here’s an exciting opportunity to build and/or port these
games to one of the hottest mobile and netbook platforms today: Google’s
Android. Pro Android Games teaches you how to build cool games like Space
Blaster and the classic Asteroids™ from scratch on the latest Android plat-
form. This book also shows you how to port other classic freeware/shareware
games like Doom and Wolfenstein™ 3D from C using the Java Native Interface
(JNI) for Android.
This book is all about a unique perspective in Android game development:
a well-balanced, powerful combination of pure pure Java and hybrid game
development, mixing Java and C. I believe that in the world of gaming, per-
formance is critical, and that by combining the elegant object-oriented fea-
tures of Java and the raw power of C, there is no limit to the types of games
that you can build for the platform. With actionable real-world source code
in hand, this book dives you right into Games development on Android. In
this book you’ll learn how to:
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setup a Linux system for hybrid game compilation
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combine Java and C code in an elegant manner by building a simple
Java application on top of a native library
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tackle pure Java gaming with two practical games: Space Blaster and
the arcade classic Asteroids™
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mix OpenGL API calls in Java and C for high performance 3D graphics
using the 3D cubes sample by Google
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bring two of the greatest PC 3D shooters to the Android platform:
Wolfenstein™ 3D and Doom using Java and C
By the end of this book, you will have learned how easy it is to bring native
PC games alive on the Android platform, which is now growing in popularity
at an amazing rate. Pro Android Games is the ultimate helper tool for your
hybrid game development needs, so you’ll be developing games quickly on
Google’s Android.
Pro
Android Games
Trim: 7.5 x 9.25 spine = 0.875" 320 page count
Create and port cool games like Space Blaster, classic Asteroids™,
Doom and Wolfenstein™ 3D using Android
Vladimir Silva