Extend your game development skills by harnessing the power of Android SDK

About This Book

• Gain the knowledge to design and build highly interactive and amazing games for your phone and tablet from scratch
• Create games that run at super-smooth 60 frames per second with the help of these easy-to-follow projects
• Understand the internals of a game engine by building one and seeing the reasoning behind each of the components

Who This Book Is For

If you are completely new to Java, Android, or game programming, this book is for you. If you want to publish Android games for fun or for business and are not sure where to start, then this book will show you what to do, step by step, from the start.

What You Will Learn

• Set up an efficient, professional game development environment in Android Studio
• Explore object-oriented programming (OOP) and design scalable, reliable, and well-written Java games or apps on almost any Android device
• Build simple to advanced game engines for different types of game, with cool features such as sprite sheet character animation and scrolling parallax backgrounds
• Implement basic and advanced collision detection mechanics
• Process multitouch screen input effectively and efficiently
• Implement a flexible and advanced game engine that uses OpenGL ES 2 to ensure fast, smooth frame rates
• 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

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.

Since Android uses one of the most popular programming languages, Java, as the primary language to build apps of all types, you will start this course by first obtaining a solid grasp of the Java language and its foundation APIs. This will improve your chances of succeeding as an Android app developer. We will show you how to get your Android development environment set up and you will soon have your first working game.

The course covers all the aspects of game development through various engrossing and insightful game projects. You will learn all about frame-by-frame animations and resource animations using a space shooter game, create beautiful and responsive menus and dialogs, and explore the different options to play sound effects and music in Android. You will al