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Learning Android Game Development

A Beginner's guide to developing popular Android games

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
By: Nikhil Malankar  
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|Sep 2025
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Learn the art of making Android games and turn your game development dreams into reality

Key Features

  • Leverage the latest features of Android N to create real-world 2D games
  • Architect a 2D game from scratch and level up your Android game development skill
  • Transition from developing simple 2D games to 3D games using basic Java code

Book Description

In this book, we’ll start with installing Android studio and its components, and setting it up ready for Android N. We teach you how to take inputs from users, create images and interact with them, and work with sprites to create animations. You’ll then explore the various collision detection methods and use sprites to create an explosion. Moving on, you’ll go through the process of UI creation and see how to create buttons as well as display the score and other parameters on screen.

By the end of the book, you will have a working example and an understanding of a 2D platform game like Super Mario and know how to convert your 2D games to 3D games.

What you will learn

  • Understand the nuts and bolts of developing highly interactive and interesting games for Android N
  • Link the interface to the code used in games through simple methods
  • Interact with the images on the screen and also learn to animate them
  • Set and save the game state and save high scores, hit points, and so on for your games
  • Get a grasp of various collision techniques and implement the bounding box technique
  • Convert your 2D games to 3D games using Android N
  • Get an understanding of the process of UI creation using Android Studio

Who this book is for

If you are a mobile developer who has basic Java programming knowledge, then this book is ideal for you. Previous Android development experience is not needed; however, basic mobile development knowledge is essential.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction and Installation of Android SDK
  2. Getting familiar with Android Studio
  3. Managing Inputs
  4. Creating Sprites and interactive objects
  5. Adding Animation to your game
  6. Collision Detection and basic AI
  7. Using sprites to create explosions
  8. Creating a UI
  9. Converting your game from 2d to 3d
  10. Working further on 3d game
https://github.com/packtpublishing/learning-android-game-development
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78588-291-3
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2017 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 238
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
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