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Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x

By : Raydelto Hernandez
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Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x

By: Raydelto Hernandez

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Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x
Raydelto Hernandez
Mar, 2015 | 160 pages
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x
Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
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 Your Development Environment
Setting Up Your Development Environment
Cocos2d-x overview
Setting up Java
Setting up the Android SDK
Setting up the Android Native Development Kit
Setting up Apache Ant
Setting up Python
Setting up Cocos2d-x
Template code walk-through
Summary
2
Graphics
Graphics
Creating scenes
Pausing the game
Understanding nodes
Understanding sprites
Understanding actions
Animating sprites
Game menus
Putting everything together
Summary
3
Understanding Game Physics
Understanding Game Physics
Setting up the physics world
Collision detection
Handling gravity
Putting everything together
Summary
4
User Input
User Input
Understanding the Event Dispatcher mechanism
Handling the touch event
Handling accelerometer events
Keeping the screen alive
Handling the Android back key pressed event
Putting everything together
Summary
5
Handling Text and Fonts
Handling Text and Fonts
Creating TrueType font labels
Creating system fonts
Creating bitmap font labels
Putting everything together
Summary
6
Audio
Audio
Playing background music and sound effects
Modifying audio properties
The new audio engine
Adding a mute button to our game
Putting everything together
Summary
7
Creating Particle Systems
Creating Particle Systems
Creating collections of the Cocos2d-x objects
Adding particle systems to our game
Configuring the particle systems
Creating customized particle systems
Putting everything together
Summary
8
Adding Native Java Code
Adding Native Java Code
Understanding the Cocos2d-x structure for the Android platform
Understanding the JNI capabilities
Adding Java code to the Cocos2d-x game
Adding ads to the game by inserting Java code
Configuring the environment
Modifying the Android manifest
Putting everything together
Summary
Index
Index

Setting up Python

All the Cocos2d-x configuration files are written in Python. If you are using Mac OS or any Linux distribution, it will already be installed on your OS. So, you can skip this section.

If you are using Windows, you need to download Python 2 from the following link: https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.8/python-2.7.8.msi.

Take in to consideration that Python, as Cocos2d-x, keeps simultaneous support for versions 2 and 3. Cocos2d-x only supports Python 2. At the time of writing this book the latest version of the 2 branch was 2.7.8.

After the installer finishes with the setup, you should manually add the Python installation path to the PATH environment variable. The default installation path is C:\Python27.

Open a new system console and type python, if the Python console is shown, as seen in the following screenshot, then it means that Python has been installed correctly:

Note

For setting an environment variable on Windows, click on the Start button and type: edit the system environment variables, click on it and hit the Environment Variables button, and then the environment variables configuration dialog will be displayed.

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