Android NDK Game Development Cookbook

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Android NDK Game Development Cookbook

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who is this book for

Building the source code

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. Establishing a Build Environment

Introduction

Installing Android development tools on Windows

Installing Android development tools on Linux

Creating an application template manually

Adding native C++ code to your application

Switching NDK toolchains

Supporting multiple CPU architectures

Basic rendering with OpenGL ES

Going cross platform

Unifying the cross-platform code

Linking and source code organization

Signing release Android applications

Chapter 2. Porting Common Libraries

Introduction

Compiling the native static libraries for Windows

Compiling the native static libraries for Android

Compiling the libcurl networking library

Compiling the OpenAL library

Compiling libvorbis libmodplug and libtheora

Using the FreeImage graphics library

Using the FreeType library for text rendering

Implementing timing in physics

Rendering graphics in 2D

Setting up Box2D simulations

Building the ODE physical library

Chapter 3. Networking

Introduction

Fetching list of photos from Flickr and Picasa

Downloading images from Flickr and Picasa

Performing cross-platform multithreading

Synchronizing native cross-platform threads

Managing memory using reference counting

Implementing asynchronous task queues

Handling asynchronous callbacks invocation

Working with the network asynchronously

Detecting a network address

Writing the HTTP server

Chapter 4. Organizing a Virtual Filesystem

Introduction

Abstracting file streams

Implementing portable memory-mapped files

Implementing file writers

Working with in-memory files

Implementing mount points

Enumerating files in the .zip archives

Decompressing files from the .zip archives

Loading resources asynchronously

Storing application data

Chapter 5. Cross-platform Audio Streaming

Introduction

Initializing OpenAL and playing the .wav files

Abstracting basic audio components

Streaming sounds

Decoding Ogg Vorbis files

Decoding tracker music using ModPlug

Chapter 6. Unifying OpenGL ES 3 and OpenGL 3

Introduction

Unifying the OpenGL 3 core profile and OpenGL ES 2

Initializing the OpenGL 3 core profile on Windows

Initializing OpenGL ES 2 on Android

Unifying the GLSL 3 and GLSL ES 2 shaders

Manipulating geometry

Unifying vertex arrays

Creating a wrapper for textures

Creating a canvas for immediate rendering

Chapter 7. Cross-platform UI and Input Systems

Introduction

Processing multi-touch events on Android

Setting up multi-touch emulation on Windows

Handling multi-touch events on Windows

Recognizing gestures

Implementing an on-screen joypad

Using FreeType for text rendering

Localization of in-game strings

Chapter 8. Writing a Match-3 Game

Introduction

Handling asynchronous multi-touch input

Improving the audio playback mechanism

Shutting down the application

Implementing the main loop

Creating a multiplatform gaming engine

Writing the match-3 game

Managing shapes

Managing the game field logic