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Android NDK Game Development Cookbook

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Android NDK Game Development Cookbook

Overview of this book

Android NDK is used for multimedia applications which require direct access to a system's resources. Android NDK is also the key for portability, which in turn provides a reasonably comfortable development and debugging process using familiar tools such as GCC and Clang toolchains. If your wish to build Android games using this amazing framework, then this book is a must-have.This book provides you with a number of clear step-by-step recipes which will help you to start developing mobile games with Android NDK and boost your productivity debugging them on your computer. This book will also provide you with new ways of working as well as some useful tips and tricks that will demonstrably increase your development speed and efficiency.This book will take you through a number of easy-to-follow recipes that will help you to take advantage of the Android NDK as well as some popular C++ libraries. It presents Android application development in C++ and shows you how to create a complete gaming application. You will learn how to write portable multithreaded C++ code, use HTTP networking, play audio files, use OpenGL ES, to render high-quality text, and how to recognize user gestures on multi-touch devices. If you want to leverage your C++ skills in mobile development and add performance to your Android applications, then this is the book for you.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Android NDK Game Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up multi-touch emulation on Windows


Testing a touch-based interface is hard without the hardware, but even with the Android hardware available, we do not have the luxury of a step-by-step debugger. Fortunately, Windows supports touch screen hardware and can provide WM_TOUCH events for our application. This recipe shows a trick, utilizing multiple mice to emulate touch events.

Getting ready

This recipe relies on a third-party Windows driver, the MultiTouchVista, a user input management layer that handles input from various devices. It can be downloaded from http://multitouchvista.codeplex.com/.

How to do it...

  1. First, we need to install the system driver. We extract the MultiTouchVista_-_second_release_-_refresh_2.zip file, the latest release at the time of writing, and then open the command line with administrator rights. If the console is run without administrator privileges, the installation of the driver fails. The extracted folder contains the Driver subfolder, where you should choose...