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In this book you are going to learn a lot about working with iOS. The goal, of course, is to be able to build a game that runs on iOS. To do that, you must learn about a lot of different elements that a full game will incorporate, such as basic UI widgets, audio, complex touch input, Game Center, in-app purchases, and of course graphics. This book will explore these concepts and many others. Think of it as a guide to the building blocks that you will need to make a compelling game that is specific to iOS and Apple’s mobile devices. All iOS applications have one thing in common—the application Xcode—so it makes sense to start with that.

Android sits alongside a new wave of modern mobile operationg systems designed to support application developmwnt on increasingly powerful mobile hardware. Platforms like Microsoft's Windows Phoe and the Apple iPhone also provide a richer, simplified development environment for mobile applications; however, unlike Android, they're built on proprietary operationg systems. In some cases they prioritize native applications over those created by third parties, restrict communication among applications and native phone data, and restrict or control the distribution of third-party applications to their plaforms.

HTML5 mobile game development is currently a new technology that people aren’t sure what to make of yet, much like smartphone games were in 2008 when the Apple App Store launched. However, there are some serious heavyweights pushing for the success of HTML5 gaming. Facebook, which launched its App Center in May 2012, has made HTML5-based Web Apps first-class citizens on mobile and is looking for ways to monetize on mobile and get out from underneath the thumb of the 30% fee Apple takes for in-app purchases in its app store. Carriers such as AT&T similarly view web apps as a way to recapture revenue lost to Google and Apple.

There’s no reason anyone with an Android handset and a good idea for a mobile application couldn’t put this book to use for fun and profit. Whether you’re a programmer looking to break into mobile technology or an entrepreneur with a cool app idea, this book is for you. We make ver y few assumptions about you as a reader of this book. You may have a basic understanding of the Java programming language (understanding classes, methods, basic inheritance, and so on), but Android makes a fantastic platform for learning Java as well. We have avoided using any fancy or confusing Java in this book, so if you’re just getting started with programming, you should be able to read the first few chapters of any introductory Java book or do an online tutorial and have enough Java knowledge to make it through this book alive.

In May 2011, Google held its annual developer conference, the Google IO, to present its newest technologies to approximately 5,000 attendees. In addition to improvements in its already well-known technologies such as the Google APIs or the core search technology, Google placed the focus on two major themes: Chrome and Android. As always, the newest advances in the Android Platform were presented and discussed, but what Google announced a bit later in the Android keynote was a bit of a surprise: Google’s first standard for Android devices to communicate with external hardware. The Android Open Accessory Standard and the Accessory Development Kit (ADK) will be the key for communicating with hardware and building externalaccessories for Android devices. To encourage development, Google handed out ADK hardware packages to interested attendees and showed some examples of ADK projects, such as a treadmill which transmitted data to a connected Android device and a huge tilt labyrinth, whic...

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