Learning Java by Building Android Games – Second Edition

With Learning Java by Building Android Games – Second Edition, build games including Sub Hunter, Retro Pong, Bullet Hell, Classic Snake, and a 2D Scrolling Shooter. Create and design your own games, such as an open-world platform game. (Limited-time offer)

Table of Contents

• Java, Android and Game Development
• Java: First Contact
• Variables, Operators and Expressions
• Structuring Code with Java Methods
• The Android Canvas Class – Drawing to the Screen
• Repeating Blocks of Code with Loops
• Making Decisions with Java If, Else and Switch
• Object-Oriented Programming
• The Game Engine, Threads, and The Game Loop
• Coding the Bat and Ball
• Collisions, Sound Effects and Supporting Different Versions of Android
• Handling Lots of Data with Arrays
• Bitmap Graphics and Measuring Time
• The Stack, the Heap, and the Garbage Collector
• Android Localization -Hola!
• Collections, Generics and Enumerations
• Manipulating Bitmaps and Coding the Snake class
• Introduction to Design Patterns and much more!
• Listening with the Observer Pattern, Multitouch and Building a Particle System
• More Patterns, a Scrolling Background and Building the Player’s ship
• Completing the Scrolling Shooter Game
• Exploring More Patterns and Planning the Platformer Project
• The Singleton Pattern, Java HashMap, Storing Bitmaps Efficiently and Designing Levels
• Sprite-sheet animations, Controllable Player and Parallax Scrolling Backgrounds
• Intelligent Platforms and Advanced Collision Detection
• What next?

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