I'm new to game programming. But I've got an ide for what I think would be a fun game for the Android platform.
My question is, where do I start? Anyone got some good sites to recommend or perhaps a book or two. I've got medium skills when it come to programming but iv got a masters of science degree in computer engineering so I'm not totally unfamiliar with algorithms and stuff.
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I am new to android .i want to develop 2d games in android.i searched for that i am not finding good tutorial on that please help with books and good tutorials.
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I am a student and would like to develop softwares for Android Phones. Please suggest me where to start.
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I am 6 months experience in Android, use to develop simple UI based application. Now i want to write application targeting the Android core Kernel.For example i want to develop a Framework which is not present in Android.To achieve that we have to write the code for the Kernel. I dont know where and how to start the Android Kernel Programming. If anybody knows the way to start it.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to make simple game on Android. But i don't know the approach to start. So any 1 can help me from where i should start and which particular API (package).
I don't know nothing. So start with first step.
I have an unlockable mode in my game that is only available once the story mode has been completed. This works perfectly if the story mode is completed during a test play through, because upon returning to the main menu the bonus mode is unlocked and selectable. However when I shut down the app and relaunch it, none of the previous state information is retained and it requires you to beat the story mode again to access the bonus mode.
I use the onSaveInstanceState method to create a bundle that stores this information (ie. a boolean whether the mode is unlocked or not), but this information seems to be lost between ending the app, and relaunching it. The onCreate method takes the parameter of a savedInstanceState but yet this seems to be null.
Is there a step that I'm missing out, or doing incorrectly somewhere along the line? On a PC game I would just serialize the state into a text file and look for a special string/symbol upon initialization but I cant do that here so i thought the outState bundle you create in SIS was how you retained information for use upon next launching the app again?
i am trying to make a game for android but am finding it difficult. For my app i have made the menu screen, sound. But to make the actual game i am not sure where to start.I am not sure how to start making the game. I have seen some tutorials but they seem to be very confusing with all the coding.
I was wondering is there not some sort of graphical layout i can use to make the games a i did to create the buttons using the xml graphical layout in eclipse.It is for my final year project and i do not have much time left or i would have done it in flash.
I've read several example programs and tutorials to try and solve my problem but they all seem to go the same way.I've used a couple Activities and xml documents to create a menu that loads when my game starts. When the user clicks the "Start The Game" button, it loads a new Activity that sets the view with my game thread and all of the game properties.I know this activity works because I've run it alone as its own project, but every way I've tried to start it after the Menu, I get a nullPointerException and it force closes.I read the SurfaceViewOverlay tutorial and attempted to use that implementation, but I'm using a SurfaceView, not a GLSurfaceView. I'm debating rewriting my entire program to use OpenGL but I figured I would see if anyone else knows what I'm doing wrong here.If you need the code snippets I can paste some here, but it's not really the specific code that's wrong, I think it's the way I'm using(abusing) the language.
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Which programming languages can I use on Android Dalvik?
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Is there a reference/list available that shows which languages can be used?
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Of course I can keep going in Java, but have been itching to begin programming Android apps.
Any definitive answer here about how much Java I need to know before Android?
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From where I can find out what methods, parameters & XML attributes to call when doing a specific Android task?
Fron what sources can we find out how to program specific Android feature? Are there some overall programming pictures to reference?
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