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The Android Game Developer's Handbook

By : Avisekhar Roy
Book Image

The Android Game Developer's Handbook

By: Avisekhar Roy

Overview of this book

Gaming in android is an already established market and growing each day. Previously games were made for specific platforms, but this is the time of cross platform gaming with social connectivity. It requires vision of polishing, design and must follow user behavior. This book would help developers to predict and create scopes of improvement according to user behavior. You will begin with the guidelines and rules of game development on the Android platform followed by a brief description about the current variants of Android devices available. Next you will walk through the various tools available to develop any Android games and learn how to choose the most appropriate tools for a specific purpose. You will then learn JAVA game coding standard and style upon the Android SDK. Later, you would focus on creation, maintenance of Game Loop using Android SDK, common mistakes in game development and the solutions to avoid them to improve performance. We will deep dive into Shaders and learn how to optimize memory and performance for an Android Game before moving on to another important topic, testing and debugging Android Games followed by an overview about Virtual Reality and how to integrate them into Android games. Want to program a different way? Inside you’ll also learn Android game Development using C++ and OpenGL. Finally you would walk through the required tools to polish and finalize the game and possible integration of any third party tools or SDKs in order to monetize your game when it’s one the market!
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
The Android Game Developer's Handbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Android DDMS


DDMS can be used to analyze a running application for all run-time details such as memory consumption, process calls, and so on.

The main functions of Android DDMS are port providing, screen capture on a device, thread details, heap details, and Logcat processing. This service can be used for spoofing calls and messaging.

Android DDMS is widely used for device debugging. Particularly in the game development procedure, it is often used as a line-by-line debugging system. This is very useful to identify unwanted loaded objects and assets, and to track runtime exceptions:

Android DDMS can be used to carry out the following activities.

Connecting an Android device filesystem

DDMS can connect to a device filesystem and provide a file browser-based operation to copy, modify, or delete any file on the device through a PC. This method or feature, however, is not very important for Android game development.

Profiling methods

Another interesting DDMS feature is profiling or tracing matrices...