You're reading from Learning Java by Building Android Games Learn Java and Android from scratch by building five exciting games

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800565869

Length 686 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Mobile Game Development

Author (1):

John Horton

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Java, Android, and Game Development

2. Chapter 2: Java – First Contact FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Variables, Operators, and Expressions

4. Chapter 4: Structuring Code with Java Methods

5. Chapter 5: The Android Canvas Class – Drawing to the Screen

6. Chapter 6: Repeating Blocks of Code with Loops

7. Chapter 7: Making Decisions with Java If, Else, and Switch

8. Chapter 8: Object-Oriented Programming

9. Chapter 9: The Game Engine, Threads, and the Game Loop

10. Chapter 10: Coding the Bat and Ball

11. Chapter 11: Collisions, Sound Effects, and Supporting Different Versions of Android

12. Chapter 12: Handling Lots of Data with Arrays

13. Chapter 13: Bitmap Graphics and Measuring Time

14. Chapter 14: Java Collections, the Stack, the Heap, and the Garbage Collector

15. Chapter 15: Android Localization – Hola!

16. Chapter 16: Collections and Enumerations

17. Chapter 17: Manipulating Bitmaps and Coding the Snake Class

18. Chapter 18: Introduction to Design Patterns and Much More!

19. Chapter 19: Listening with the Observer Pattern, Multitouch, and Building a Particle System

20. Chapter 20: More Patterns, a Scrolling Background, and Building the Player's Ship

21. Chapter 21: Completing the Scrolling Shooter Game

22. Chapter 22: What Next?

23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Basic object-oriented programming

I am not going to throw a whole object-oriented programming book at you in one go. We will return to and expand upon our object-oriented programming knowledge as the book progresses and the games get more advanced.

Tip

Object-oriented programming is a bit of a mouthful. From this point on, I will refer to it as OOP.

Before we get to what exactly OOP is, a quick warning.

Humans learn by doing

If you try to memorize this chapter, you will have to make a lot of room in your brain and you will probably forget something important in its place, such as going to work or thanking the author for telling you not to try and memorize this stuff.

Going back to the car analogy from Chapter 1, Java, Android, and Game Development, intimate knowledge of a car's mechanical systems will not make you a great driver. Understanding the options and possibilities of its interface (steering wheel, engine performance, brakes, and so on), then practicing...