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Cardboard VR Projects for Android

You're reading from Cardboard VR Projects for Android Develop mobile virtual reality apps using the native Google Cardboard SDK for Android

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785887871

Length 386 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Virtual Reality

Authors (2):

Jonathan Linowes

Matt Schoen

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Virtual Reality for Everyone FREE CHAPTER

2. The Skeleton Cardboard Project

3. Cardboard Box

4. Launcher Lobby

5. RenderBox Engine

6. Solar System

7. 360-Degree Gallery

8. 3D Model Viewer

9. Music Visualizer

Index

What's in an Android app?

For our projects, we're going to use the powerful Android Studio IDE (an integrated development environment) to build Google Cardboard virtual reality applications that run on Android devices. Woot! Android Studio integrates a number of different tools and processes under one roof.

The result of all your hard work to develop an Android app is an Android application package or an .apk file, which is distributed to users via the Google Play Store or however you choose to distribute your app. This file gets installed on their Android device.

We'll jump to Android Studio itself in a moment. However, in order to shed some light on what's going on here, let's consider this end result .apk file first. What is it really? How'd we get it? Understanding the build process will help.

Keeping this in mind, for fun and to gain perspective, let's start from the end and work our way backward from the APK through the build pipeline to our app source code.

APK files

The APK file is actually...

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Authors (2)

Linowes

Linowes

Jonathan Linowes is a VR/AR enthusiast, Unity, and full stack developer, entrepreneur, certified Unity instructor, and the owner of Parkerhill XR Studio, an immersive media, applications, and game developer. Jonathan has a bachelor of fine arts degree from Syracuse University, a master of science degree from the MIT Media Lab, and has held technical leadership positions at Autodesk and other companies. He has authored multiple books on VR and AR published by Packt Publishing.

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Schoen

Schoen

Matt Schoen is the cofounder of Defective Studios and has been making VR apps since the early DK1 days. Still in the early stages of his career, he spent most of his time working on Unity apps and games, some for hire and some of his own design. He studied computer engineering at Boston University and graduated with a BS in 2010, at which point he founded Defective with Jono Forbes, a high-school friend. He has been making games and apps ever since. Matt was the technical lead on Defective's debut game, CosmoKnots, and remains involved in Jono's pet project, Archean. This is his first foray into authorship, but he brings with him his experience as an instructor and curriculum designer for Digital Media Academy. Jono and Matt have recently joined Unity's VR Labs division, where they will be helping to create experimental new features which will shape the VR landscape for years to come.

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