Since we started supporting Android platforms fully in the XRTK, we’ve been through the mill working through all the possible combinations of testing, debugging and banging heads against tables to make Android platforms behave.
From the earliest days of my youth, we have always battled with finding space to install “stuff” on our computers. Whether it was fragmentation, whittling down all the unnecessary things we don’t need or just plain burring millions of cat pictures to CD’s, we always needed more space.
No matter which platform is your primary target platform for your game in development, it is wise to have an appreciation for how platforms operate. So even if Android is not your first deployment it is good to get to know how it works as it will help you architect your game properly.
Just before I come up for air and start blogging in earnest I received an interesting offer to review another Android book. if you cast you mind back I did a review of “Android 4: New features for Application Development” (http://bit.ly/12E5q2u) which was a good highlight of the new bits, this book takes you back to basics and walks you through setting up, your first app and beyond.
As a break from my normal programming schedule I was passed a new Android book for review, I ‘m always interested how the other side lives (before I come running back to C# and Windows), in many cases we can see similarity with platforms which seems to grow closer with each release as each learns from new developments in the other and tried to improve on them.
A while ago myself whilst playing around with “other” platforms decided to review a set of books from the fantastic Packt Publishers who kindly sent us a few titles to give out opinion on, I picked up: