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OUYA Game Development by Example

By : John Donovan
Book Image

OUYA Game Development by Example

By: John Donovan

Overview of this book

The OUYA console and development kit gives you the power to publish video games for the players, creating a console marketplace of the gamers, for the gamers, and by the gamers. Using the OUYA developer kit and the Unity3D game engine, even beginners with a captivating game idea can bring it to life with a hint of imagination. OUYA Game Development by Example uses a series of feature-based, step-by-step tutorials that teach beginners how to integrate essential elements into a game engine and then combine them to form a polished gaming experience.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
OUYA Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – installing Android packages


The SDK manager will give you a list of packages that you can check and install by performing the following steps:

  1. Check the following packages:

    • Android SDK Tools

    • Android SDK Platform-tools

    • Anroid 4.1.2 (API 16) platform (except Google APIs)

    • Android Support Library (in the Extras folder)

    • Google USB Driver (in the Extras folder)

    • The following screenshot depicts these packages:

  2. After checking all of the packages listed previously, click on Install 12 packages… (the total number may vary) and let the SDK manager run its course.

    Tip

    The future versions of the OUYA software may use a later version of the Android platform. For updated version numbers and instructions, refer to the documentation found at https://devs.ouya.tv/developers/docs/setup.

The packages include almost everything we need, but we need to manually configure the Android USB driver before it's ready to use, which is what we'll do next.

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