Introduction

Hi there, and welcome to the world of Android game development. My name is Mario; I'll be your guide for the next fourteen chapters. You came here to learn about game development on Android, and I hope to be the person who enables you to realize your ideas.

Together we'll cover quite a range of materials and topics: Android basics, audio and graphics programming, a little math and physics, and a scary thing called OpenGL ES. Based on all this knowledge we'll develop three different games, one even being 3D.

Game programming can be easy if you know what you're doing. Therefore I've tried to present the material in a way that not only gives you helpful code snippets to reuse, but actually shows you the big picture of game development. ...

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