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Android Game Programming: A Developer’s Guide
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Android Game Programming: A Developer’s Guide

by John Horton, Raul Portales
September 2016
Beginner to intermediate
1089 pages
23h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Android Game Programming: A Developer’s Guide

Building the home screen

Since we have done all the planning and preparation, we can get started with the code.

Note

To use the code files, you will still need to create an Android Studio project. In addition, you will need to change the package name in the very first line of code of each of the JAVA files. Change the package name to match the package name of the project you created. Finally, you will need to make sure that any assets such as images or sound files are placed into the appropriate folder in the project. All the required assets for each project are supplied in the download bundle.

Creating the project

Fire up Android Studio and create a new project by following these steps. All the files to get the project to where we will be, by the ...

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