Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x

Raydelto Hernandez

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781785283833
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Programming in Java
• Index: Computer Science

Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x

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Table of Contents

Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Setting Up Your Development Environment

Cocos2d-x overview

Setting up Java

Setting up the Android SDK

Downloading the Android SDK

Downloading Eclipse

Setting up the Eclipse ADT plugin

Setting up the Android Native Development Kit

Setting up Apache Ant

Setting up Python

Setting up Cocos2d-x

Creating your first project

Setting up the Eclipse IDE

Template code walk-through

Java classes

Android application configuration

C++ classes

Scenes

Summary

2. Graphics

Creating scenes

Understanding Layers

Using the director

Pausing the game

Organizing our resources files

Creating our pause scene header file

Creating the pause scene implementation file

Transitions

Understanding nodes

Understanding sprites

Creating sprites

Positioning sprites

Setting anchor points

Understanding the Cocos2d-x coordinate system

Adding sprites to the scene

Positioning sprites outside the visible area

Positioning the player sprite

Understanding actions

Moving sprites

Creating sequences

Animating sprites

Improving performance with sprite sheets

Game menus

Handling multiple screen resolutions

Putting everything together

Summary

3. Understanding Game Physics

Setting up the physics world

Collision detection

Handling gravity

Handling physics properties

Applying velocity

Linear damping

Applying force

Applying impulse

Applying torque

Putting everything together

Summary

4. User Input

Understanding the Event Dispatcher mechanism

Handling the touch event

Handling multi-touch events

Handling accelerometer events

Keeping the screen alive

Handling the Android back key pressed event

Putting everything together

Summary

5. Handling Text and Fonts

Creating TrueType font labels

Creating our GameOverScene

Calling our GameOverScene when a player loses

Customizing the GameOverScene

Adding label effects

Creating system fonts

Creating bitmap font labels

Adding more bombs to our game

Putting everything together

Summary

6. Audio

Playing background music and sound effects

Modifying audio properties

Handling audio when leaving the game

The new audio engine

New features included in the new audio engine

Adding a mute button to our game

Putting everything together

Summary

7. Creating Particle Systems

Creating collections of the Cocos2d-x objects

Exploding bombs

Adding particle systems to our game

Configuring the particle systems

Creating customized particle systems

Putting everything together

Summary

8. Adding Native Java Code

Understanding the Cocos2d-x structure for the Android platform

Understanding the JNI capabilities

Adding Java code to the Cocos2d-x game

Adding ads to the game by inserting Java code

Configuring the environment

Modifying the Android manifest

Adding the Java code

Putting everything together

Summary

Index

Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x

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Credits

Author

Raydelto Hernandez

Reviewers

Alejandro Duarte

Emanuele Feronato

Akihiro Matsuura

Luma

Commissioning Editor

Veena Pagare

Acquisition Editor

Sam Wood

Content Development Editor

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Technical Editor

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Copy Editor

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Project Coordinator

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Proofreaders

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Indexer

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Foreword

I really like this book and the work Raydelto did writing it. This book teaches you from scratch how to develop games using Cocos2d-x and how the JNI works. I know this book will be useful for anyone who is new in this framework or has experience in it. I read each chapter and I can say that Raydelto wrote each chapter well, so I'm sure this book contains his passion and each reader will enjoy and learn because it is an excellent book.

Carlos Piñan

CTO, Vitrum Games

About the Author

Raydelto Hernandez is a software engineer and university professor living in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He has developed games for BlackBerry 10, Android, and iOS. He currently teaches topics related to game development at INTEC University.

At the age of 22, he started teaching at Las Americas Institute of Technology, where he earned the Professor of the Year award many times. Then he the became director of the software development center. He has also taught at UNAPEC University, UNIBE University, and INTEC University, where he is currently a research professor.

He is a BlackBerry Certified Builder, Zend Certified Engineer, Certified Java programmer, CompTIA A+ professional, and Microsoft Technology Associate.

Raydelto has posted on YouTube dozens of video tutorials on different programming environments, which are also available on his website at www.raydelto.org. Here, you can also find information about his open source projects.

Raydelto has founded two technology companies, Soluciones GBH (in 2005) and AST Technology (in 2008), which develop software for all platforms.

About the Reviewers

Alejandro Duarte has been coding since 1994, when he was 13 years old, using languages such as Basic, C, C++, Assembler, C#, PHP, Java, Groovy, and Lua. He focuses mainly on Java technologies for enterprise applications, but always keeps an eye on the video game development industry and technologies. He has collaborated with several open source and closed source projects based on Cocos2d-x, Processing, Irrlicht Engine, and the Allegro library.

Alejandro has worked for companies in Colombia and the United Kingdom as a software developer and consultant. He is the author of Vaadin 7 UI Design by Example: Beginner's Guide, and a technical reviewer for Cocos2d-x by Example Beginner's Guide. He maintains several open source projects hosted...