Are there any decent Android NDK examples and tutorials out there? Where can I find them? If there are any geared more specifically towards game engine development (as I am looking to convert mine over to android) that would be most helpful.
There was a blog post a while about android game programming on the official blog. Also Quake was ported to Android using a mix of Java and Native code and has been open sourced. Not sure how good it is from a tutorial standpoint but looking at real code always helps me more than following a basic tutorial.
check out : http://www.mobisoftinfotech.com/blog/tag/android-ndk-tutorial/
Here is one complete documentation.
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jni/html/jniTOC.html
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I have basic understanding of java and how classes works.
please guide me in the right path.
kindly give brief summary of steps that i have to follow in this journey.
Look at this website. I find it quite useful- https://roadmap.sh/android
Here's the Android Developer Documentation. Considering that Kotlin is the preferred language to use for Android development, I would suggest expanding your knowledge of object-oriented programming in Kotlin rather than Java.
The documentation provides links to guides/tutorials that will walk you through the basics of an Android application while also establishing proper coding practices in Kotlin. I personally find the docs very useful in this regard, as I'm currently refactoring a legacy app written in Java.
I recommend using the google codelabs to learn topics, these codelabs are updated by the Android dev team use best practices. If you are just starting out I would recommend learning Kotlin over java, Kotlin is the recommend langue by the Android Dev team, Kotlin takes advantage of coroutines.
Here is the Android dev guide for beginners, I would work through these modules. I still refer to them from time to time.
https://developer.android.com/courses/android-basics-kotlin/course
Well, the question is self-explanatory. As I was reading Google Docs provided for Android, they pointed to game samples over and over, but unfortunately there is no proper updated link to game samples. Does anyone know where can I find them? Any help appreciated.
For a sample application, see the Snake game, in the SDK samples
folder: /samples/Snake/.
And nothing here as well.
I think you mean this:
ANDROID SNAKE SAMPLE SOURCE
I already found some answers to this question here but they were all two years old or more.
Can anyone suggest me a cross platform (iOS+Android) mobile 2D game engine (Java or C++)?
I'd go with AndEngine but it supports Android only.
Thank you.
I recommend libGDX. As you may have read from a few of the other threads in StackOverflow, it is one of the popular ones and there is sufficient material provided to assist you to get familiar with.
Here is their Github page, which has loads of information to get you started (see external tutorials in the wiki). I would also like to recommend dermetfan's libGDX channel for a basic introduction that I have found useful with certain components (search dermetfan libGDX in youtube, would provide link but I'm restricted to two links).
Personally, I have used libGDX as a mobile 2D game engine for a work project, and I've found it really nice. Hope this helps!
I am developing android game using opensource cocos2d-android-1 library available here . I also developed demo application using this tutorial.
Now I want to do further development but I am not getting any documentation for this library and how to use library. If anybody knows any blog, forum, documentation for this library project please suggest me.
I recommend you use cocos2d-x instead. It is also a port of cocos2d-iphone but with more platforms, a better documentation and a wider community than cocos2d-android (but still not as good as cocos2d-iphone).
It's probably a bit more painful to start because you need to understand how to run native code on android but you probably won't regret it when you decide to port your game on another platform.
many example is available on the github for cocos2d-android and documentation is not in large scale but you can handle most of the things from the test sample which is available in the cocos2d-andriod . if you getting any problem ..post here to get the answer or help..
I was wondering if there is any 3D scene graph toolkit available or at least in development for Android? I could not find anything, assuming that all existing solutions for Java won't run on the Android platform.
I played around with the simple but quite powerful JPCT library that is supported by quite an active forum. The author has ported the libary to Android, and shows some nice demos on his site.
http://www.jpct.net/jpct-ae
You might look into JMonkey Engine. They are working on an Android version:
http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/forum/index.php?topic=13643.0
http://jmonkeyengine.com/blog/blog/2010/02/10/android-support-confirmed-for-jme3/
Have you tried out JavaFX Mobile? http://java.sun.com/javafx/index.jsp
I'm looking for one as well. I came across this today, but I have no idea if its actually any good -- the company site looks kinda sketchy!!
http://www.artfulbits.com/Android/aiCharts.aspx