- Learning Java by Building Android Games - Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- Learning Java by Building Android Games Second Edition
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1. Java, Android and Game Development
- What's new in the second edition?
- Why Java, Android and Games?
- The games you will build
- How Java and Android work
- Setting up Android Studio
- Starting the first project: Sub' Hunter
- Android Studio and our project – A very brief guided tour
- Locking the game to full-screen and landscape orientation
- Deploying the game so far
- Summary
- 2. Java: First Contact
- 3. Variables, Operators and Expressions
- 4. Structuring Code with Java Methods
- 5. The Android Canvas Class – Drawing to the Screen
- 6. Repeating Blocks of Code with Loops
- 7. Making Decisions with Java If, Else and Switch
- 8. Object-Oriented Programming
- Basic Object-Oriented Programming
- Looking at the code for a class
- Basic classes mini-app
- Remember that encapsulation thing?
- Encapsulation and static methods mini-app
- OOP and inheritance
- Inheritance mini-app
- Polymorphism
- Starting the Pong game
- Summary
- 9. The Game Engine, Threads, and The Game Loop
- Coding the PongActivity class
- Coding the PongGame class
- Coding the PongGame class
- The game loop
- Threads
- Implementing the game loop with a thread
- Implementing Runnable and providing the run method
- Coding the thread
- Starting and stopping the thread
- Activity lifecycle
- A simplified explanation of the Android lifecycle
- Lifecycle phases: What we need to know
- Lifecycle phases: What we need to do
- Using the Activity lifecycle to start and stop the thread
- Coding the run method
- Running the game
- Summary
- 10. Coding the Bat and Ball
- 11. Collisions, Sound Effects and Supporting Different Versions of Android
- 12. Handling Lots of Data with Arrays
- 13. Bitmap Graphics and Measuring Time
- 14. The Stack, the Heap, and the Garbage Collector
- 15. Android Localization -Hola!
- 16. Collections, Generics and Enumerations
- 17. Manipulating Bitmaps and Coding the Snake class
- 18. Introduction to Design Patterns and much more!
- Introducing the Scrolling Shooter project
- Game programming patterns and the structure of the Scrolling Shooter project
- Starting the project
- Controlling the game with a GameState class
- Giving partial access to a class using an interface
- Building a sound engine
- Testing the game so far
- Building a HUD class to display control buttons and text
- Building a Renderer class to handle the drawing
- Using the HUD and Renderer classes
- Running the game
- Summary
- 19. Listening with the Observer Pattern, Multitouch and Building a Particle System
- 20. More Patterns, a Scrolling Background and Building the Player's ship
- Meet the game objects
- The Entity-Component pattern
- The Simple Factory pattern
- Summary so far
- The object specifications
- Coding the component Interfaces
- Coding the player's and the background's empty component classes
- Every GameObject has a transform
- Every object is a GameObject
- Completing the player's and the background's components
- Building the GameObjectFactory
- Coding the Level class
- Putting everything together
- Running the game
- Summary
- 21. Completing the Scrolling Shooter Game
- 22. Exploring More Patterns and Planning the Platformer Project
- Platform Game: Bob Was in A Hurry
- How we will build the platformer
- Getting started with Bob was in a hurry
- Specifying all the game objects with GameObjectSpec classes
- GameObjectSpec
- BackgroundCitySpec
- BackgroundMountainSpec
- BackgroundUndergroundSpec
- BrickTileSpec
- CartTileSpec
- CoalTileSpec
- CollectibleObjectSpec
- ConcreteTileSpec
- DeadTreeTileSpec
- FireTileSpec
- GrassTileSpec
- LamppostTileSpec
- MoveablePlatformSpec
- ObjectiveTileSpec
- PlayerSpec
- ScorchedTileSpec
- SnowTileSpec
- SnowyTreeTileSpec
- StalactiteTileSpec
- StalagmiteTileSpec
- StonePileTileSpec
- Summary of component classes
- Coding the component interfaces
- Coding the other interfaces
- Summary
- 23. The Singleton Pattern, Java HashMap, Storing Bitmaps Efficiently and Designing Levels
- The Singleton pattern
- More Java Collections – Meet Java Hashmap
- The memory problem and the BitmapStore
- Coding the basic transform
- Coding the inanimate and decorative components
- Create the levels
- Coding a stripped down GameObjectFactory
- Coding a slightly commented-out game object
- Coding the GameState
- Code the SoundEngine
- Coding the physics engine (without collision)
- Coding a Renderer
- Coding the camera
- Coding the Hud
- Coding the UIController class
- Code the Activity
- Code the GameEngine
- Coding the LevelManager class
- Running the game
- Summary
- 24. Sprite-sheet animations, Controllable Player and Parallax Scrolling Backgrounds
- 25. Intelligent Platforms and Advanced Collision Detection
- 26. What next?
- Index
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