Android NDK Game Development Cookbook

Chapter 2. Porting Common Libraries

In this chapter, we will cover:

Compiling the native static libraries for Windows
Compiling the native static libraries for Android
Compiling the libcurl networking library
Compiling the OpenAL library
Compiling libvorbis, libmodplug, and libtheora
Using the FreeImage graphics library
Using FreeType library for text rendering
Implementing timing in physics
Rendering graphics in 2D
Setting up Box2D simulations
Building the ODE physical library

User Jan 04, 2014

This is my first book on Android Native Development Kit. I hope you will find it useful and write great games for Android.

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C. Moeller May 01, 2014

If you’d like to try making games on Android using C++, or want to use a C++ library with your current game, this book would be very helpful for you. The last two chapters especially bring it all together, creating two simpler games, just to demonstrate all the basic techniques needed to make any game (A tetris type game, and a picture puzzle that fetches pictures from the internet, and creates a cool little 3d carousel to display them).This book would be most helpful to someone who either has a C++ background, and wants to create Android games, while trying to avoid Java, or for a current Android Java programmer, who needs or wants higher performance for cpu intensive tasks. The target audience isn’t someone new to programming.Don’t expect it to teach you C++, or in depth game programming, but it will teach you how to create a game using C++ on Android (and on desktop, which is much more time efficient to debug on, and can really help you get your games out faster). From there you could extrapolate, and use the techniques to create any kind of game you like.

Johnny Aug 23, 2014

good service

Ralf Apr 25, 2014

The book is as the title suggests a cookbook for developing games using the Android NDK.While I have only skimmed through the chapters, my initial impression is that it covers thebasic building blocks of game development: toolchain setup, compilation of existing libraries,audio, video, user interaction, and sums it up in two chapters where the authors discuss 2basic games.One criticism I have is that personally I found the Windows-specific code to be off-topic,perhaps it would have been more suitable for an appendix chapter.While the book does not seem to go into as much depth as the "Android NDK Beginner's Guide"it does seem like a nice way to jump into NDK game development. The authors certainlyhave a lot of experience to share with someone new to game development of Android.

xuechjbj Dec 31, 2013

accumulating some libraries which want to integate into android. useless.can i refund it? it is first book i regretted.

Android NDK Game Development Cookbook: For C++ developers, this is the book that can swiftly propel you into the potentially profitable world of Android games. The 70+ step-by-step recipes using Android NDK will give you the wide-ranging knowledge you need.

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