Android NDK Game Development Cookbook

Sergey Kosarevsky · Viktor Latypov

Nov 2013 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

A systematic guide consisting of over 70 recipes which focus on helping you build portable mobile games and aims to enhance your game development skills with clear instructions.If you are a C++ developer who wants to jump into the world of Android game development and who wants to use the power of existing C++ libraries in your existing Android Java applications, then this book is for you. You need to have basic knowledge of C or C++ including pointer manipulation, multithreading, and object-oriented programming concepts as well as some experience developing applications without using an IDE.

About the author

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 fi eld 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 [e-mail].; 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.