Beginning Android Games, Third Edition

© Mario Zechner, J.F. DiMarzio and Robert Green 2016

Mario Zechner, J. F. DiMarzio and Robert Green, Beginning Android Games, 10.1007/978-1-4842-0472-6_5

5. An Android Game Development Framework

Mario Zechner¹ , J. F. DiMarzio² and Robert Green³

(1)Graz, Steiermark, Austria

(2)Celebration, Florida, USA

(3)Portland, Oregon, USA

As you may have noticed, we’ve been through four chapters without writing a single line of game code. The reason we’ve put you through all of this boring theory and asked you to implement test programs is simple: if you want to write games, you have to know exactly what’s going on. You can’t just copy and paste code together from all over the Web and hope that it will form the next first-person shooter hit. By now, you should ...