Creating Mobile Games
Using Java ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile Device and Cell Phone
Authors: Hamer, Carol
Download source code Free Preview- First Java games book for the newly updated and now open source Java Micro Edition (ME)
- First and only Java book to cover MIDP versions 1, 2, and the new 3
- Clear, accessible writing and exposition with complete working examples
- Online updates and discussion available (through author’s blog)
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- About this book
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Creating Mobile Games: Using Java ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile Device and Cell Phone is a practical build-it-yourself mobile Java games book with lots of complete working code and advice:
- Shows you how to create a basic game and make it a professional one (by adding a pro look-and-feel by writing your own menus or using the open source J2ME Polish, and enabling marketing/billing from your own web site)
- Demonstrates Wireless Messaging and other optional APIs (using SMS, PIM, File Connection, Bluetooth, and so forth in a multiplayer game)
- Covers MIDP3
- About the authors
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Carol Hamer received her Ph.D. in number theory from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Since then, she has worked as a software engineer for 10 years in the U.S., France, and Switzerland, including three years working for In-Fusio Mobile Games. Carol has written three books on mobile game programming for Apress: J2ME Games with MIDP2, Creating Mobile Games, and Learn BlackBerry Games Development. She writes a blog called A Little Bitty Java (http://bittyjava.wordpress.com) with programming ideas, troubleshooting tips, and code samples.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Getting Started
Pages 1-19
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Using MIDlets
Pages 21-51
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Using the MIDP 2 Games API
Pages 53-94
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Using Threads and Media
Pages 95-129
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Storing and Retrieving Data
Pages 131-192
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Creating Mobile Games
- Book Subtitle
- Using Java ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile Device and Cell Phone
- Authors
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- Carol Hamer
- Copyright
- 2007
- Publisher
- Apress
- Copyright Holder
- Carol Hamer
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4302-0418-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4302-0418-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-59059-880-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- 415
- Topics