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Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x

Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x

By : Hernandez
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Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x

Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x

4.3 (8)
By: Hernandez
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Overview of this book

If you have a basic understanding of the C++ programming language and want to create videogames for the Android platform, then this technology and book is ideal for you.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Preface
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What this book covers
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1. Setting Up Your Development Environment
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1. Setting Up Your Development Environment
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Cocos2d-x overview
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Setting up Java
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Setting up the Android SDK
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Setting up the Android Native Development Kit
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Setting up Apache Ant
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Setting up Python
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Setting up Cocos2d-x
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Template code walk-through
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Summary
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2. Graphics
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2. Graphics
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Creating scenes
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Pausing the game
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Understanding nodes
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Understanding sprites
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Understanding actions
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Animating sprites
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Game menus
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Putting everything together
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3. Understanding Game Physics
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3. Understanding Game Physics
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Setting up the physics world
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Collision detection
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Handling gravity
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Putting everything together
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4. User Input
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4. User Input
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Understanding the Event Dispatcher mechanism
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Handling the touch event
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Handling accelerometer events
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Keeping the screen alive
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Handling the Android back key pressed event
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Putting everything together
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Summary
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5. Handling Text and Fonts
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5. Handling Text and Fonts
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Creating TrueType font labels
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Creating system fonts
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Creating bitmap font labels
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Putting everything together
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6. Audio
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6. Audio
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Playing background music and sound effects
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Modifying audio properties
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The new audio engine
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Adding a mute button to our game
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Putting everything together
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7. Creating Particle Systems
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7. Creating Particle Systems
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Creating collections of the Cocos2d-x objects
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Adding particle systems to our game
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Configuring the particle systems
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Creating customized particle systems
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Putting everything together
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8. Adding Native Java Code
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8. Adding Native Java Code
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Understanding the Cocos2d-x structure for the Android platform
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Understanding the JNI capabilities
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Adding Java code to the Cocos2d-x game
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Adding ads to the game by inserting Java code
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Configuring the environment
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Modifying the Android manifest
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Putting everything together
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Index
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Adding Java code to the Cocos2d-x game

Now we are going to create a simple integration between these two technologies, which will allow our Cocos2d-x C++ game to show a toast message using the Android Java API.

Note

A toast in Android is a pop-up message that is displayed for a specified amount of time without the option of being hidden before the predefined time. The screenshot at the end of this section shows what a toast message looks like.

Cocos2d-x runs within a Java activity, so in order to show the native Android toast message, we will create a Java class that will have a static method called showToast. This will receive a string, and then it will show it in a toast. In order to have access to the Cocos2d-x game activity, we will add a static attribute of type Activity to that class and will initialize it in the overridden onCreate method. Then, we will create a public static method that will allow us to access this instance from anywhere within our Java code. After these modifications...

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