Chapter 1, Introduction to Android N and Installation of Android SDK, guides the reader through the installation of the necessary software with a step-by-step guide.

Chapter 2, Getting Familiar with Android Studio, works toward making the reader comfortable with the project layout and components needed to get started with developing games with Android Studio.

Chapter 3, Managing Inputs, guides the reader through how to take inputs from the user.

Chapter 4, Creating Sprites and Interactive Objects, teaches how to display images on screen and turn them into interactive objects.

Chapter 5, Adding Animation to Your Game, takes you through how to create animations using sprite sheets.

Chapter 6, Collision Detection and Basic Artificial Intelligence, explores various collision detection methods. It is recommended that the user has a little mathematical understanding of some basic concepts of the coordinates system.

Chapter 7, Adding Boundaries and Using Sprites to Create Explosions, goes through creating boundaries for the game, and then moves on to create an explosion class to create an explosion effect.

Chapter 8, Adding an Explosion and Creating a UI, shows how we will spawn our explosion on screen after creating the explosion class, and then covers on how to create a UI that will display instructions and score the on screen.

Chapter 9, Converting Your Game from 2D to 3D, discusses how to move from making 2D games into 3D games.

Chapter 10, Working Further on 3D Game, introduces the player to further work with 3D objects in the game.

This book is aimed at those who want to get started with native development with Android. It also gives a ready introduction to the latest version of Android, Android N, and guides the reader through the process of going from developing a simple app to a complex 3D game in a matter of 10 simple chapters.

This book is for anyone who has a basic knowledge of Java and is interested in making games for Android. No prior knowledge of Android or game development is needed; however, this would be a plus.

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning. Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "For instance, you can think of www.google.com as a website's domain name." A block of code is set as follows:

<TextView
    android:text="Hello World!"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/TextView"
    tools:text="helloWorld"
    android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Headline" />

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Click on Text, as shown in the following screenshot:"

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