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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

Common optimization mistakes


The gaming industry is now one of the fastest growing industries. To keep up with the speed and to stand in the market, many companies plan a shorter development period with limited optimization. In this scenario, the developer often commits the following mistakes knowingly or unknowingly:

  • Programming mistakes

  • Design mistakes

  • Wrong data structure

  • Using game services incorrectly

Programming mistakes

Programming is a manual process, and to err is human. So, it is obvious that there is no bug-free and completely optimized programming for games. However, there are few ways in which a programmer can minimize mistakes to have an optimized game code base. Let's discuss the major mistakes a programmer commits while developing a game in Android.

Programmers often create many temporary variables and forget to keep track of them. Often, these variables occupy unnecessary memory and increase processing calls.

Sorting is widely used in game development for many purposes. There are...