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Mastering Android Game Development

Mastering Android Game Development

By : Raul Portales
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Mastering Android Game Development

Mastering Android Game Development

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By: Raul Portales
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Overview of this book

If you are an intermediate-level Android developer who wants to create highly interactive and amazing games with the Android SDK, then this book is for you.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Setting Up the Project
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1. Setting Up the Project
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The right tool for the right game
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The project – YASS (Yet Another Space Shooter)
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Game architecture
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Putting everything together
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Moving forward with the example
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Good practices for game developers
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Summary
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2. Managing User Input
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2. Managing User Input
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The InputController base class
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The most basic virtual keypad
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Creating a virtual joystick
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Physical controllers
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Sensors and InputControllers
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Selecting control modes
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3. Into the Draw Thread
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3. Into the Draw Thread
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Using GameView
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Improving DrawThread
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Sprites
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Adding a frames-per-second (fps) counter
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Spawning enemies – the GameController
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Occlusion culling
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Parallax backgrounds
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Layers
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4. Collision Detection
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4. Collision Detection
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Detecting collisions
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Rectangular bodies
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Circular bodies
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Mixed collision detection
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Summary
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5. Particle Systems
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5. Particle Systems
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General concepts
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Making good particle systems
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One shot
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Emitters
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6. Sound FX and Music
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6. Sound FX and Music
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SoundManager
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Sound FX
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Playing music
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Enabling and disabling music and sound FX
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Disabling system sounds
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7. Menus and Dialogs
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7. Menus and Dialogs
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Custom fonts
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Working with backgrounds
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The GameFragment
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Custom dialogs
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Designing for multiple screen sizes
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8. The Animation Framework
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8. The Animation Framework
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Updating BaseFragment
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AnimationDrawable
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View animation
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Property animation
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9. Integrating Google Play Services
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9. Integrating Google Play Services
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Setting up the developer console
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Setting up the code
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Achievements
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Leaderboards
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Opening the Play Games UI
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Other features of Google Play services
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10. To the Big Screen
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10. To the Big Screen
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Project configuration
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Testing for Android TV
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Declaring a TV Activity
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Providing a home screen banner
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Declaring it as a game
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Reviewing the manifest
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Showing controller instructions
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Beyond this book
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Summary
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A. API Levels for Android Versions
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A. API Levels for Android Versions
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Index
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Index

Custom dialogs

The next step in making our UI nicer is to stop using the standard Android dialogs and create our own custom ones instead. Once again this is something completely discouraged for apps but it makes a lot of sense for games.

There are many reasons why a custom dialog system is better for games:

  • The default dialogs will look different in different Android versions. This is in fact great when you use AlertDialog in an app, since it mimics the dialogs of all the rest of the apps, but not the games. We want consistency.

  • Default dialogs use the system font.

  • If you try to set a custom background or a custom content view, AlertDialogs look terrible. Again, you should never do that in an app, but you definitely want it in a game.

  • The standard dialogs ruin the immersive experience by showing the notifications and system bars when they are on screen.

  • It is hard to replace the animations of AlertDialog with custom ones.

We are going to build a system that shows our dialogs on screen, with a gray...

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