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Mastering Android Game Development

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

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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    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.

    What you will learn

    • Understand the internals of a game engine and the reasoning behind each of the components
    • Decide when to use each of the different ways of drawing on Android
    • Handle user inputs, from virtual joysticks to gamepads
    • Implement collision detection using different techniques and discover how to optimize it for complex games
    • Use animations and particle systems to provide a rich experience
    • Create beautiful, responsive, and reusable UIs by taking advantage of the Android SDK
    • Integrate Google Play Services to provide achievements and leaderboards to the players

    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.

    Table of Contents

    1. Project setup
    2. Managing user Input
    3. Into the drawing thread
    4. Collision detection
    5. Particle systems
    6. SoundFX and Music
    7. Menus and Dialogs
    8. Particle Systems
    9. Google Play Services
    10. To the Big Screen
    11. API levels for Android versions
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78528-136-5
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 372