Android NDK Game Development Cookbook

320 Pages·2013·10.43 MB·English

Android NDK Game
Development
Cookbook
Over 70 exciting recipes to help you develop mobile
games for Android in C++
Sergey Kosarevsky
Viktor Latypov
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Android NDK Game Development Cookbook
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Credits
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Sergey Kosarevsky Apeksha Chitnis
Viktor Latypov
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Reviewers Simran Bhogal
Mootez Billeh Chaabani Ameesha Green
Guy Cole Paul Hindle
Maya Posch
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About the Authors
Sergey Kosarevsky is a software engineer with experience in C++ and 3D graphics.
He has worked for mobile industry companies and was involved in mobile projects at SPB
Software and Yandex. He has more than 10 years of software development experience, and
more than four years of Android NDK experience. Sergey got his PhD in the field of Mechanical
Engineering from the St. Petersburg Institute of Machine Building in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
In his spare time Sergey maintains and develops an open source multiplatform 3D gaming
engine, Linderdaum Engine (http://www.linderdaum.com). He is online at http://
blog.linderdaum.com and can be contacted by email at [email protected].
I would like to thank Alexander Pavlov, a Google engineer, for the time
and effort he put into carefully reviewing our initial drafts and helping us
to improve this book. Also I would like to thank Igor Demura (Google) for
valuable criticism on our chapter 6, as well as Dmitry Ovcharov (Yandex),
and other friends and colleagues who helped this book happen.
Viktor Latypov is a software engineer and a mathematician with experience in compiler
development, device drivers, robotics, high-performance computing, and a personal interest
in 3D graphics and mobile technology. Surrounded by computers for almost 20 years,
he enjoys every bit of developing and designing software for anything with a CPU inside.
Viktor holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Saint Petersburg State University.
I would like to thank my mother, Galina Fedyushina, for all of the support
and the innate thirst for knowledge.
About the Reviewers
Mootez Chaabani works as a software engineer R&D at a French company. He has recently
graduated from studies in Graphical Programming, and Virtual and Augmented Reality. He has
published two apps: Quiz game in the Windows Market Place, and an Android app in the local
app shop. He is currently working on Android/C++ projects based on 3D in SpacEyes.
He is currently working with SpacEyes as a Software Engineer R&D. He has also worked as an
Android developer at Orange, Tunisia in 2012. In 2011, he was an intern at Microsoft, Tunisia.
He has also reviewed Unity Android Game Development, Beginner’s Guide, Packt Publishing,
by Thomas James Moffitt-Finnegan.
I would like to thank my family, my soul mate, and all my of friends including
the Bardo Boys (my neighborhood friends).
Guy Cole is a freelance silicon valley contractor working on mobile devices (Android and
iOS), Java/J2EE, relational databases, TCP/IP networks, and UNIX/LINUX hosted enterprise
solutions. Guy has designed and fielded applications for B2B, banking, health care,
e-commerce, shipping, mass transit, national defense, enterprise/network management, and
cable/broadcast industries. His customers include Northrop Grumman, Wells Fargo, Barclay
Global Investments, Hewlett Packard, DHL Worldwide Express, Motorola, Cisco Systems, Cray
Research, Tandem Computers, NCR, and many smaller (but equally interesting) companies.
Maya Posch has been involved with programming and technology in general from a young
age. She has endeavored to expand her programming skills mostly on low-level, embedded,
and game-related programming. She currently runs her own company—Nyanko—which is
involved in these aforementioned fields, in addition to doing general development work for
other companies.
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Dedicated to my grandfather Leonid Michailowitsch Sirotkin who passed away during
the editing of this book.
- Dedication by Sergey Kosarevsky
Dedicated to my wife Mary who supports my every new initiative.
- Dedication by Viktor Latypov