Android :: I/O Streams - Multiplayer Game?
Nov 11, 2010
I am developing a multiplayer game on android. I am having a Java server and android client. The android client issues multiple requests and receives responses from the server. However the performance is not smooth. At times the data received at the Java server is not what I send from android. It is junk or zeroes. However, some times, data is correctly received.
I was wondering is there any data loss in between and why? I am using java.net on both ends. Please let me know if anybody was facing a similar problem anytime during android development.
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Sep 6, 2010
I have to develop a multiplayer game. The game will be supported between different platforms: 1) Two android clients. 2) Android client and a web application (something like facebook and android client for Texas- Holdem game).
I want to handle the communication between the platforms through a service.
I have asp.net (C#) background so I thought to implement the communication using WCF service but I am not sure this is the best choice?! Can you please tell me if my choice is good or should I choose other approach to implement the communication?
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May 21, 2010
I am getting started in android development and I really want to create some form of online game. My goal is to start out with a turn- based game and move onto advanced multiplayer games. I want to have users associated with their google account, provide some sort of matchmaking to pair people together, have their stats stored in a database, and use the stats for various leaderboards and such. I have read over an older discussion on this list at http://www.mail-archive.com/android-developers@googlegroups.com/msg75... . There was a lot of good information that I gathered but I still have some questions. What I have so far is an apache web server on a laptop that I don't need right now (2.0Ghz Core 2, 3GB Ram).
I have never really used Java (although I'm learning it for android), but I know C/C++, Perl, and Python. I am in the process of learning mysql databases, which will help with a lot of the stats features I want to implement. I have built a HTTP/1.1 persistent server in C before which did JSON parsing and used a threadpool so I am somewhat familiar with the low-level network calls needed. However, I'm thinking that a free server software must exist that would offer more security and better load-balancing than the server I created. One solution I am thinking is to just use the Apache web server, have android make a request to a perl module I create on the server, and then have the server look it up on a database and so forth. Then the server will just keep sending back the player locations or whatever. Will the Apache web server slow me down for what I am trying to do or I am looking at everything the wrong way? Are there some settings in Apache that I could tweak to give me better latency such as persistent connections?
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Mages is multiplayer client/server game engine for Android and other mobile devices (currently Android and J2ME devices are supported, development for Windows Mobile in the progress). It allows developers to create internet multiplayer games by implementing only core game logic and GUI by using powerful engine API.
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Sep 7, 2010
I want to develop a multiplayer game. The game will provide communication between different platforms:
1) Two android clients (client applications that communicates through a service).
2) Android client and a web application (internet application) which is something like facebook (web) and android client for some kind of game. I want to handle the communication between the platforms ((1) android to android and (2) android to web) through a service.
I have asp.net (C#) background so I thought to implement the communication using WCF service, but I am not sure this is a good choice. Can I handle the communication using WCF or should I use other approach? Can you please recommend me a good approach to implement the communication?
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The game clients would send information to this server and request updates via xml.
I would just like to know if this is the best way / only for to clients to send game information to each other over the internet? Any advice on this would be good.
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Apr 18, 2010
I'm developping a simple realtime action game 4 Android. It works nice. but now i want deal with animation FPS and i'm facing a big problem i can't solve since couple days now.
I started from the famous Lunar Android sample using facebook. got 55-60 frame per second on my G1. it smelt good for my game i thought ... BUT when i plugged the surface view in my game i got a poor 6-9 Frame per second making the game unplayable.
After debugging removing all content of my doDraw used by the thread controlling the surface view i found the problem.
The problem is not the quantity of sprites i displayed but the concurrency between threads used for receiving my game data over TCP and the UI thread i use to control surface view.
If when i start displaying the game i stop the my socket protocol threads (reader, writer) the game is refreshed at 25 FPS which is not 50 FPS but large enought to make the game playable.
So my question is how in realtime game for android i can send / received data (and not delayed of course) without killing the game refresh rate.
Last thing i use canvas and not open gl but i don't need open gl and i really see the problem comes from the multithreading.
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I'm working on a simple game to experience the multiplayer game development on mobile plaforms especially on Android and iOS. I'm now planning network/multiplayer side of the game and need some advice.
Firstly i think about Google App Engine as the server side of the game. But i learned that app engine cannot connect directly to clients. So updates of the users cannot be send to others directly with this method. Then i started to think about serving the game on one of the gamers of the current session. But of course some of the features will be on the server. You think it is a good idea?
Second, I'm looking for a protocol to communicate iOS and Android. YAML and JSON are the ones i looked so far.
Any other suggestions about multiplayer game development would be appreciated. Thanks...
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Let's use this thread to post links to the live blogs and/or streams, to make it a bit easier for people that aren't sure where to look. I'll do my best to update this first post throughout the day to reflect newly found links.
Live Blogs
Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/live-from-verizons-motorola-droid-x-event/?sort=newest&refresh=20
Android Central
[url]
Verizon Wireless on Twitter
Verizon Wireless (VerizonWireless) on Twitter
Cnet
Reminder: Verizon Droid event June 23 | Android Atlas - CNET Blogs
Thedroidguy
[url]
MobileCrunch
[url]
Live Streams
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