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Android NDK Game Development Cookbook

You're reading from 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.

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782167785

Length 320 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Android NDK

Concepts

Mobile Game Development

Authors (2):

Sergey Kosarevsky

Viktor Latypov

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Establishing a Build Environment

2. Porting Common Libraries FREE CHAPTER

3. Networking

4. Organizing a Virtual Filesystem

5. Cross-platform Audio Streaming

6. Unifying OpenGL ES 3 and OpenGL 3

7. Cross-platform UI and Input Systems

8. Writing a Match-3 Game

9. Writing a Picture Puzzle Game

Index

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

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Authors (2)

Sergey Kosarevsky

Sergey Kosarevsky

Sergey Kosarevsky is a former rendering lead at Ubisoft RedLynx. He currently leads Vulkan development at Meta. He worked in the AR/VR and mobile industries at DAQRI, TWNKLS, Blippar, Layer, Yandex, and SPB Software, where he designed and implemented custom real-time rendering technology. He has more than 20 years of software development experience and more than 14 years of mobile and embedded 3D graphics experience. In his Ph.D. thesis, Sergey employed computer vision to solve mechanical engineering problems. He has co-authored several books on mobile software development in C++.

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Viktor Latypov

Viktor Latypov

Viktor Latypov is a software engineer and mathematician with experience in compiler development, device drivers, robotics, and high-performance computing and with a personal interest in 3D graphics and mobile technology. Surrounded by computers for more than 20 years, he enjoys every bit of developing and designing software for anything with a CPU inside. Viktor holds a PhD in applied mathematics from Saint-Petersburg State University.

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