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Android Game Recipes

A Problem-Solution Approach

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  • © 2013

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  1. J. F. DiMarzio
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  • Android Game Recipes is your first, reliable game coding reference for today's Android game apps.

  • This book provides easy to follow real world game code problems and solutions, including source code.

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Getting Started

    • J. F. DiMarzio
    Pages 1-10

  3. Loading an Image

    • J. F. DiMarzio
    Pages 11-40

  4. The Splash Screen

    • J. F. DiMarzio
    Pages 41-50

  5. The Menu Screen

    • J. F. DiMarzio
    Pages 51-64

  6. Reading Player Input

    • J. F. DiMarzio
    Pages 65-78

  7. Loading a SpriteSheet

    • J. F. DiMarzio
    Pages 79-92

  8. Scrolling a Background

    • J. F. DiMarzio
    Pages 93-104

  9. Scrolling Multiple Backgrounds

    • J. F. DiMarzio
    Pages 105-116

  10. Syncing the Background to Character Movement

    • J. F. DiMarzio
    Pages 117-126

  11. Building a Level Using Tiles

    • J. F. DiMarzio
    Pages 127-140

  12. Moving a Character

    • J. F. DiMarzio
    Pages 141-152

  13. Moving an Enemy

    • J. F. DiMarzio
    Pages 153-166

  14. Moving a Character with Obstacles

    • J. F. DiMarzio
    Pages 167-174

  15. Firing Weapons

    • J. F. DiMarzio
    Pages 175-190

  16. Collision Detection

    • J. F. DiMarzio
    Pages 191-204

  17. Keeping Score

    • J. F. DiMarzio
    Pages 205-216

  18. Keeping Time

    • J. F. DiMarzio
    Pages 217-222

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 223-227
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About this book

Android game apps are typically the most popular type of Android apps in the various Google Play, Amazon Appstore and other Android app stores. So, beyond the Android game tutorials out there, what about a day-to-day handy and complete code reference for Android game developers?

Android Game Recipes is your first, reliable game coding reference for today's Android game apps. This book provides easy to follow real world game code problems and solutions, including source code.

This book covers code recipe solutions that are common to 2D game development problems such as designing a game menu, collision detection, moving characters, moving backgrounds and more. This book also includes how to work with player input, how to add multiple levels, how to create game graphics for different screen resolution, and how to work with device sensors.

After reading and using this book, you'll have the templated code snippets, solutions and frameworks to apply to your game app design to build your game, customize it, and then sell it on the Android app stores.

About the author

J. F. DiMarzio is a seasoned Android developer and author. He began developing games in Basic on the TRS-80 Color Computer II in 1984. Since then, he has worked in the technology departments of companies such as the U.S. Department of Defense and the Walt Disney Company. He has been developing on the Android platform since the beta release of version .03, and he has published two professional applications and one game on the Android Marketplace. DiMarzio is also an accomplished author. Over the last 10 years, he has released eight books, including Android: A Programmer s Guide. His books have been translated into four languages and published worldwide. DiMarzio s writing style is very easy to read and understand, which makes the information in the topics that he presents more retainable.

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