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Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot

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Product type Book
Published in May 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782166726
Pages 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Nikolaus Gradwohl Nikolaus Gradwohl
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Nikolaus Gradwohl was born in 1976 in Vienna, Austria, and always wanted to become an inventor like Gyro Gearloose. When he got his first Atari, he decide that becoming a computer programmer was the closest he could get to that dream. He has since made a living writing programs for nearly anything that can be programmed, ranging from an 8-bit microcontroller to mainframes. In his free time, he likes gaining knowledge on programming languages and operating systems. Nikolaus has been using Processing since 2008, and has written countless sketches and some Processing libraries. You can see some of his work on his blog at http://www.local-guru.net/.
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Romeo and Juliet The Stick Figure Dance Company The Disco Dance Floor Smilie-O-Mat The Smilie-O-Mat Controller Fly to the Moon The Neon Globe Logfile Geo-visualizer From Virtual to Real Index

Running the game on an Android phone

Our final task of this mission is to make our moon-lander game run on Android devices. We will install the Android SDK and use the Android mode of Processing to turn our game into an Android app. We will use the Android emulator and make the sketch run on devices connected via USB. Since most Android devices come without a keyboard but do have a touch screen, we will adapt our game controls and then run in full-screen mode.

Engage Thrusters

Let's convert the game to an Android app:

  1. Go to http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html and download the Android SDK for your computer. We don't need the bundled version that comes with Eclipse. Since we already have an IDE (Processing), we need to scroll down to the SDK Tools Only section and download the SDK package for our operating system.

  2. Unpack the downloaded file and run the Android command from the tools folder.

  3. Processing creates apps that run on Android starting with Version 2.3.3, since this was the first...

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Profile icon Nikolaus Gradwohl
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Nikolaus Gradwohl was born in 1976 in Vienna, Austria, and always wanted to become an inventor like Gyro Gearloose. When he got his first Atari, he decide that becoming a computer programmer was the closest he could get to that dream. He has since made a living writing programs for nearly anything that can be programmed, ranging from an 8-bit microcontroller to mainframes. In his free time, he likes gaining knowledge on programming languages and operating systems. Nikolaus has been using Processing since 2008, and has written countless sketches and some Processing libraries. You can see some of his work on his blog at http://www.local-guru.net/.
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