Beginning Android 4 Games Development

Code: The Nitty-Gritty Details

Here's another chicken-and-egg situation: We only want to get to know the Android APIs that are relevant for game programming. However, we still don't know how to actually program a game. We have an idea of how to design one, but transforming it into an executable is still voodoo magic to us. In the following subsections, we want to give you an overview of what elements usually make up a game. We'll look at some pseudocode for interfaces that we'll later implement with what Android offers. Interfaces are awesome for two reasons: they allow us to concentrate on the semantics without needing to know the implementation details, and they allow us to exchange the implementation later (for example, instead of using 2D ...