Chapter 1. Java, Android and Game Development

Welcome to Learning Java by Building Android Games (second edition). In this first chapter we will get straight into Java, Android and game development and by the end, we will have a great insight into what we will achieve in the book as well as have built and deployed the first part of the first game.

Also, we will look at some images and an outline of each of the six games we will develop throughout the book.

Further, we will explore and discover what is so great about Android, what exactly Android and Java are, how they work and complement each other, and what that means to us as future game developers.

Moving quickly on we will set up the required software, so we can build and deploy the outline for ...

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