Preface

Welcome to Practical Android 4 Games Development. This book takes you step by step through the evolution of two different mobile games; from concept through code.You will learn how to conceive a game from a root idea and carry through to the complex task of coding an engine to turn your idea into a playable game.

I decided to write this book to teach the skills needed to create your own 2D and 3D games for the Android 4 platform. Android 4 unites the operating systems of Android-based mobile phones and tablets under one common SDK. This means that the games you develop can be played on the latest tablets and phones, and on the best possible hardware. The same game is now playable on either kind of device; you just need to take the first ...

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