Android for the BeagleBone Black. Design and implement Android apps that interface with your own custom hardware circuits and the BeagleBone Black

Andrew Henderson, Aravind Prakash

Android: Game Programming. A Developer's Guide

Raul Portales, John Horton

Gaming has historically been a strong driver of technology, whether we’re talking about hardware or software performance, the variety of input methods, or graphics support and the Android game platform is no different. Android is a mature, yet still growing, platform that many game developers have embraced as it provides tools, APIs, and services to help bootstrap Android projects and ensure their success, many of which are specially designed to help game developers.Since Android uses one of the most popular programming languages, Java, as the primary language to build apps of all types, you will start this course by first obtaining a solid grasp of the Java language and its foundation APIs. This will improve your chances of succeeding as an Android app developer. We will show you how to get your Android development environment set up and you will soon have your first working game.The course covers all the aspects of game development through various engrossing and insightful game projects. You will learn all about frame-by-frame animations and resource animations using a space shooter game, create beautiful and responsive menus and dialogs, and explore the different options to play sound effects and music in Android. You will also learn the basics of creating a particle system and will see how to use the Leonids library. By the end of the course, you will be able to configure and use Google Play Services on the developer console and port your game to the big screen.This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products:? Learning Java by Building Android Games by John Horton? Android Game Programming by Example by John Horton? Mastering Android Game Development by Raul Portales

Android Game Programming by Example. Harness the power of the Android SDK by building three immersive and captivating games

John Horton

Android High Performance Programming. Click here to enter text

Emil Atanasov, Enrique López Manas, Diego Grancini

Performant applications are one of the key drivers of success in the mobile world. Users may abandon an app if it runs slowly. Learning how to build applications that balance speed and performance with functionality and UX can be a challenge; however, it's now more important than ever to get that balance right.Android High Performance will start you thinking about how to wring the most from any hardware your app is installed on, so you can increase your reach and engagement. The book begins by providing an introduction to state–of-the-art Android techniques and the importance of performance in an Android application. Then, we will explain the Android SDK tools regularly used to debug and profile Android applications. We will also learn about some advanced topics such as building layouts, multithreading, networking, and security. Battery life is one of the biggest bottlenecks in applications; and this book will show typical examples of code that exhausts battery life, how to prevent this, and how to measure battery consumption from an application in every kind of situation to ensure your apps don’t drain more than they should.This book explains techniques for building optimized and efficient systems that do not drain the battery, cause memory leaks, or slow down with time.

Android na tablecie. Receptury

B.M. Harwani

Najlepsze przepisy dla programistów platformy Android! Android swoją karierę rozpoczął od telefonów. Nie minęło wiele czasu, gdy pojawiły się pierwsze tablety pracujące w tym systemie. Dzisiaj ich wybór i możliwości przyprawiają o zawrót głowy. Deweloper musi obecnie wziąć pod uwagę wiele konfiguracji sprzętowych — różne rozdzielczości ekranu i różnorodność osprzętu wymagają dbałości o detale i przetestowania aplikacji w kilku środowiskach. Jak sobie z tym poradzić? Jak tworzyć rozwiązania działające na różnych tabletach oraz jak wykorzystać potencjał Androida? Na te i wiele innych pytań odpowie ta rewelacyjna książka, należąca do cieszącej się uznaniem serii „Receptury”. Szczególny nacisk położono w niej na tablety pracujące pod kontrolą systemu Android w wersji 4.2.2. Dowiesz się, jak przygotować środowisko pracy, wyświetlać powiadomienia oraz tworzyć animacje. Ponadto zapoznasz się z możliwościami sprzętowej akceleracji grafiki 2D, przechwytywania dźwięku oraz materiałów wideo. A potem opanujesz korzystanie z formatu JSON w celu przechowywania informacji oraz obsługiwanie małych ekranów. Ostatni rozdział książki poświęcony został analizie i śledzeniu sposobu wykorzystania Twojej aplikacji — dzięki temu przekonasz się, do jakich zakątków świata dotarło Twoje dzieło. Książka ta musi znaleźć się na półce każdego autora aplikacji dla Androida — ogromna baza gotowych do użycia fragmentów kodu ułatwi Ci pracę! Dzięki tej książce: stworzysz urządzenie AVD sprawdzisz możliwości OpenGL wykorzystasz łączność bezprzewodową odkryjesz tajniki standardu NFC Obowiązkowa lektura każdego programisty!

Android Native Development Kit Cookbook. Create Android apps using Native C/C++ with the expert guidance contained in this cookbook. From basic routines to advanced multimedia development, it helps you harness the full power of Android NDK

Liu Feipeng

Building Android applications would usually mean that you spend all of your time working in Java. There are however times when this is not the most efficient or best method for the application being built. This is where Android NDK comes in. Android NDK allows the developer to write in Native C/C++, giving you the power to reuse code and libraries and also, in most cases, increase the speed and efficiency of your application.The Android Native Development Kit Cookbook will help you understand the development, building, and debugging of your native Android applications. We will discover and learn JNI programming and essential NDK APIs such as OpenGL ES, and the native application API. We will then explore the process of porting existing libraries and software to NDK. By the end of this book you will be able to build your own apps in NDK apps.Android Native Development Kit Cookbook begins with basic recipes that will help you in the building and debugging of native apps, and JNI programming. The recipes cover various topics of application development with Android NDK such as OpenGL programming and Multimedia programming. We will begin with a simple recipe, Hello NDK, before moving on to cover advanced topics with recipes on OpenGL ES that focus on 2D and 3D graphics, as well as recipes that discuss working with NDK and external APIs. If you are looking for ways to make your application available in Android and take measures to boost your application's performance, then this Cookbook is for you.

Android NDK: Beginner's Guide. Discover the native side of Android and inject the power of C/C++ in your applications

Sylvain Ratabouil

Android NDK Game Development Cookbook. For C++ developers, this is the book that can swiftly propel you into the potentially profitable world of Android games. The 70+ step-by-step recipes using Android NDK will give you the wide-ranging knowledge you need

Sergey Kosarevsky, Viktor Latypov

Android NDK is used for multimedia applications which require direct access to a system's resources. Android NDK is also the key for portability, which in turn provides a reasonably comfortable development and debugging process using familiar tools such as GCC and Clang toolchains. If your wish to build Android games using this amazing framework, then this book is a must-have.This book provides you with a number of clear step-by-step recipes which will help you to start developing mobile games with Android NDK and boost your productivity debugging them on your computer. This book will also provide you with new ways of working as well as some useful tips and tricks that will demonstrably increase your development speed and efficiency.This book will take you through a number of easy-to-follow recipes that will help you to take advantage of the Android NDK as well as some popular C++ libraries. It presents Android application development in C++ and shows you how to create a complete gaming application. You will learn how to write portable multithreaded C++ code, use HTTP networking, play audio files, use OpenGL ES, to render high-quality text, and how to recognize user gestures on multi-touch devices. If you want to leverage your C++ skills in mobile development and add performance to your Android applications, then this is the book for you.