Introduction

In the extensions overview chapter, we're going to begin to work with a number of classes that don't come packaged with AndEngine. There are many extensions that can be written to add various improvements or extra features to any default AndEngine game. In this chapter, we're going to be working with three main extensions that will allow us to create live wallpapers with AndEngine, create online games that allow multiple devices to connect directly to each other or a dedicated server, and finally, incorporate SVG files into our games as texture regions, allowing for high resolution and scalable graphics within our games.

AndEngine includes a relatively long list of extensions which can be included in our projects in order to make certain tasks easier to complete. Unfortunately, due to the number of extensions and the current state of some of them, we are limited in the number of extensions, which can be included within this chapter. However, most AndEngine extensions are relatively...