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Android Game Programming by Example

By : John Horton
Book Image

Android Game Programming by Example

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Android Game Programming by Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
7
Platformer – Guns, Life, Money, and the Enemy
Index

Building the home screen


Since we have done all the planning and preparation, we can get started with the code.

Note

Downloading the example code

You can download the example code files from your account at http://www.packtpub.com for all the Packt Publishing books you have purchased. If you purchased this book elsewhere, you can visit http://www.packtpub.com/support and register to have the files e-mailed directly to you.

To use the code files, you will still need to create an Android Studio project. In addition, you will need to change the package name in the very first line of code of each of the JAVA files. Change the package name to match the package name of the project you created. Finally, you will need to make sure that any assets such as images or sound files are placed into the appropriate folder in the project. All the required assets for each project are supplied in the download bundle.

Creating the project

Fire up Android Studio and create a new project by following these steps...