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Understand the internals of a game engine and the reasoning behind each of the components

Decide when to use each of the different ways of drawing on Android

Handle user inputs, from virtual joysticks to gamepads

Implement collision detection using different techniques and discover how to optimize it for complex games

Use animations and particle systems to provide a rich experience

Create beautiful, responsive, and reusable UIs by taking advantage of the Android SDK

Integrate Google Play Services to provide achievements and leaderboards to the players

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Amazon Customer Jan 01, 2020

This is a great book. It is well organized and takes the reader from project set up through game development. The organization of the code is very good and the author shows how to build a game engine. The beauty of the game in the book is that it can be modified into another game by replacing the images and game logic, all within the framework the author provides. I have read the book 3 times and appreciated it more and more with each read. The last 3 chapters cover Android animation, Google Play Services, and Android TV. These chapters are extremely informative. I highly recommend this book!

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Amazon Customer Jul 20, 2015

Just finished this and I have to admit to skimming a few parts. I will update when I get a chance to go back to it if necessary.I found coverage of the structure of the code is a big positive.This is so often overlooked and it is very different to a regular Java or even Android app.Wish it didn't cover XML animations and "is this the right tool" and had more of the absolutely excellent info like on screen game controllers and particle effects made really easy.Five stars for that.

jamie Aug 07, 2015

Really enjoyed this book, from setting up a project right down to integrating google play services this has been a real enjoyment! mastering android game development gave me and hopefully will give you that bit extra and then some! the collision detection in making games was a weak spot for me but is now more clearer thanks to the way it is placed in this book.Some past books i have read i skipped through a bit and this was not the case this time around, if you dedicate your time to this without skipping through sections then there is no reason you cant take away some valuable knowledge to aid you in your games development! remember the will to learn puts you on the path to succeed! i find the hands on approach the best possible way to learn and this is what this book does, practice makes perfect as the saying goes and i now have plenty more knowledge to help me.The book is wriiten well and easy to follow, again its the will to learn that will determine how you take the methods in this book and what you take away after the final chapter. A great book thank you

Hugo Oct 14, 2015

This is the book if you want to learn how to make an android game, the concepts shown by the author are everything I would like to be presented when I was beginning in game development, but this book doesn't stopped in concepts of game development, he shows the pros and cons if you want to make a game purely with Android SDK. I've always trying to make games using complete game engines and editors, avoiding lose my time, but Isn't that crazy thing create a simple game engine to make a simple mobile game, now I think this is even fast process because I already knew how to program in Java and how Android works, the first chapter opened my mind, but the book has ten chapters and as I was reading and applying the concepts in my game I saw that it was a good choice, the book goes deep, and you become able to make a full featured game, the concepts shown are simple, but complete in way that you can easily adapt and apply for that game you want to do, all the features that most of the engines shows as their advantages like sounds, particles, collision, etc., are proved that isn't too difficult to implement and sometimes is even easier. This book was made by a top class game developer, and he mastered the art of teach what he knows. At the end of this book I felt that I became a better game developer because now I know how the game really works under the hood, this is much powerful, this book teached me more than a regular course, but it was fun and fast.

BizyWizard Jul 04, 2016

This a great book for advanced programmers. Even if you are beginning it is a good read but beginner's should give themselves time to digest the information.

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