Vladimir Silva eBooks

"Wolfenstein 3D"-like and"Doom"-like game appsare some of the classicAndroid games presented in the original edition of this book. Since their release, Android has progressed withthe debut of Android4.0, adding better fonts,new User Interface and Experience (UI/UX) APIs,tablet considerations, multi-touch capabilities, multi-tasking, faster performance, and much more to the Android game appdevelopmentrepertoire. Multi-touch code gives these games andtheir players dynamic input and exchange ability,for a more realistic arcade game experience.Faster and better performance offers game players a more seamless, fun arcade experience like never before on Android. There is also improved native C/C++ integration with Android's NDK as well...

Do you remember landmark games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Asteroids? Well, heres an exciting opportunity to build and/or port these games to one of the hottest mobile and netbooks platforms today: Googles Android. Pro Android Games teaches you how to build cool games like Space Blaster and the classic Asteroids from scratch on the latest Android platform. This book also shows you how to port other classic freeware/shareware games like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D from C using the Java Native Interface (JNI) for Android. This book is all about a unique perspective in Android game development: a well-balanced, powerful combination of pure Java and hybrid game development, mixing Java and C. By combining the elegant object-oriented features of Java and t...