Android is one of the major players in the mobile phone market. Android is a mobile platform that is built on the top of Linux operating system. The native-code support on Android offers endless opportunities to application developers, not limited the functionality that is provided by Android framework. Pro Android C++ with the NDK is an advanced tutorial and professional reference for today’s more sophisticated app developers now porting, developing or employing C++ and other native code to integrate into the Android platform to run sophisticated native apps and better performing apps in general. Using a game app case study, this book explores tools for troubleshooting, debugging, analyzing memory issues, unit testing, unit test code coverage, performance measurement, on native applications, as well as integrating the Android NDK toolchain into existing Autoconf, Makefile, CMake, or JAM based build systems.
Pro Android C++ with the NDK (Native Development Kit) is an advanced tutorial and professional reference for experienced app developers now porting, developing or employing C++ and other native code to integrate into the Android platform to run more sophisticated native apps with increased performance. Download eBook Free »
Anybody can start building simple apps for the Android platform, and this book will show you how! Recently updated to include Android Jelly Bean, this Android Apps for Absolute Beginners, Second Editiontakes you through the process of getting your first Android apps up and running using plain English and practical examples.
This newly updated book cuts through the fog of jargon and mystery that surrounds Android application development, and gives you simple, step-by-step instructions to get you started. If you have a great idea for an Android app, but have never programmed before, then this book is for you. You don’t need to have any previous computer programming skills as long as you have a desire to learn, and you know which end of the mouse is which, the world of Android apps development awaits!
Anybody can start building simple apps for the Android platform, and this book will show you how! Recently updated to include Android Jelly Bean, Android Apps for Absolute Beginners, Second Editiontakes you through the process of getting your first Android apps up and running using plain English and practical examples. Download eBook Free »
Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, 2nd Edition
Android continues to be one of the leading mobile OS and development platforms driving today’s mobile innovations and the apps ecosystem. Android appears complex, but offers a variety of organized development kits to those coming into Android with differing programming language skill sets. Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Second Edition offers more than 100 down-to-earth code recipes, and guides you step-by-step through a wide range of useful topics using complete and real-world working code examples. It’s updated to include the Jelly Bean Android SDK as well as earlier releases.
Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Second Edition offers more than 100 down-to-earth code recipes, and guides you step-by-step through a wide range of useful topics using complete and real-world working code examples. It’s updated to include the Jelly Bean Android SDK as well as earlier releases.
Instead of abstract descriptions of complex concepts, in Android Recipes, you’ll find live code examples. When you start a new project, you can consider copying and pasting the code and configuration files from this book, then modifying them for your own customization needs. Download eBook Free »
Pro Android Web Game Apps: Using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
Dive into game development and create great multiplayer online games with Pro Android Web Game Apps. This hands-on guide covers both the theory and practice of browser game development for the Android platform. You’ll use cutting-edge technologies to make game engines in your browser, establish real-time server communication, and create amazing gaming experiences with artificial intelligence and rich media.
Bring your knowledge of HTML and JavaScript to the next level with Pro Android Web Game Apps. You are guided through exciting projects that give you firsthand experience with core game app development concepts. You’ll start with a blank HTML page, and by the end of the book, have the skills needed to create a multiplayer online game with rich graphics, sound, animation, and more even if you have no previous games development or server-side experience.
Pro Android Web Game Apps: Using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript is a hands-on guide to building web games, focused on Android devices. You’ll start with a blank HTML page, and by the end of the book, have the skills needed to create a multiplayer online game with rich graphics, sound, animation, and more. Download eBook Free »
Beginning Android Games, 2nd Edition offers everything you need to join the ranks of successful Android game developers, including Android tablet game app development considerations. You’ll start with game design fundamentals and programming basics, and then progress toward creating your own basic game engine and playable game apps that work on Android and earlier version compliant smartphones and now tablets. This will give you everything you need to branch out and write your own Android games.
Beginning Android Games, 2nd Edition offers everything you need to join the ranks of successful Android game developers, including Android tablet game app development considerations. You’ll start with game design fundamentals and Android programming basics, and then progress toward creating your own basic game engine and playable game apps.
The potential user base and the wide array of available high-performance devices makes Android an attractive target for aspiring game developers. Do you have an awesome idea for the next break-through mobile gaming title? Beginning Android Games, 2nd Edition will help you kick-start your project. This book will guide you through the process of making several example game apps using APIs available in new Android SDK and earlier SDK releases for Android smartphones and tablets. Download eBook Free »
In the last few years, Android has progressed with the debut of better fonts, new User Interface and Experience (UI/UX) APIs, tablet considerations, multi-touch capabilities, multi-tasking, faster performance, improved battery management techniques, and now Google TV Android Apps for the Android game app developer repertoire. This book published previously as Advanced Android 4 Games. This edition covers game development for all Android SDK versions up to Jelly Bean / Android SDK 4.1.
With actionable real-world source, Pro Android Games, 2nd Edition shows you how to build more sophisticated and addictive Android games, by leveraging the power of these recent advancements found in the new Android Jelly Beans development platform as well as those you’ve counted on in earlier releases. Multi-touch code gives these games and their 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, which makes coding, compiling, and converting both productive and efficient with gains in app performance. Download eBook Free »
Entries
