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Mastering Android Game Development

By : Raul Portales
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Mastering Android Game Development

By: Raul Portales

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Mastering Android Game Development
Raul Portales
Jun, 2015 | 372 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Android Game Development
Mastering Android Game Development
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Setting Up the Project
Setting Up the Project
The right tool for the right game
The project – YASS (Yet Another Space Shooter)
Game architecture
Putting everything together
Moving forward with the example
Good practices for game developers
Summary
2
Managing User Input
Managing User Input
The InputController base class
The most basic virtual keypad
Creating a virtual joystick
Physical controllers
Sensors and InputControllers
Selecting control modes
Summary
3
Into the Draw Thread
Into the Draw Thread
Using GameView
Improving DrawThread
Sprites
Adding a frames-per-second (fps) counter
Spawning enemies – the GameController
Occlusion culling
Parallax backgrounds
Layers
Summary
4
Collision Detection
Collision Detection
Detecting collisions
Rectangular bodies
Circular bodies
Mixed collision detection
Summary
5
Particle Systems
Particle Systems
General concepts
Making good particle systems
One shot
Emitters
Summary
6
Sound FX and Music
Sound FX and Music
SoundManager
Sound FX
Playing music
Enabling and disabling music and sound FX
Disabling system sounds
Summary
7
Menus and Dialogs
Menus and Dialogs
Custom fonts
Working with backgrounds
The GameFragment
Custom dialogs
Designing for multiple screen sizes
Summary
8
The Animation Framework
The Animation Framework
Updating BaseFragment
AnimationDrawable
View animation
Property animation
Summary
9
Integrating Google Play Services
Integrating Google Play Services
Setting up the developer console
Setting up the code
Achievements
Leaderboards
Opening the Play Games UI
Other features of Google Play services
Summary
10
To the Big Screen
To the Big Screen
Project configuration
Testing for Android TV
Declaring a TV Activity
Providing a home screen banner
Declaring it as a game
Reviewing the manifest
Showing controller instructions
Beyond this book
Summary
API Levels for Android Versions
API Levels for Android Versions
Index
Index

About the Author

Raul Portales is a software engineer who works as a contract consultant with Platty Soft. He cofounded the game studio The Pill Tree, which ran for a year and produced several titles that were featured by Google Play, including Chalk Ball and SpaceCat.

He has been a Google Developer Expert for Android since the start of 2015, and he loves public speaking. He has presented at several DroidCons and Game Developers conferences, talking about how to survive as an indie game developer.

At the moment, Raul lives in Dublin and you can easily find him collaborating with the local community on different meetups, especially the ones organized by GDG Dublin.

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