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Mastering Android NDK

Book Image

Mastering Android NDK

Overview of this book

Android NDK is used for multimedia applications that require direct access to system resources. NDK is also the key for portability, which in turn allows a reasonably comfortable development and debugging process using familiar tools such as GCC and Clang toolchains. This is a hands-on guide to extending your game development skills with Android NDK. The book takes you through many clear, step-by-step example applications to help you further explore the features of Android NDK and some popular C++ libraries and boost your productivity by debugging the development process. Through the course of this book, you will learn how to write portable multi-threaded native code, use HTTP networking in C++, play audio files, use OpenGL ES 3, and render high-quality text. Each chapter aims to take you one step closer to building your application. By the end of this book, you will be able to create an engaging, complete gaming application.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Android NDK
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we summed up many techniques shown in the book and implemented a portable game application using the Android NDK. The essence of our tinkering with all that C++ code is the possibility to run our game unchanged on a desktop machine. This approach gives great opportunities in debugging large C++ mobile applications and faster iteration times when integrating new content into these apps. Furthermore, professional mobile development is never focused on one platform. With development practices like these, you can write C++ code that runs on many mobile platforms, including Android and iOS.