Android Game Development: Tutorial

Ok Lets get started..

Creating a game for android devices is an easy task.. But creating a great game requires effort.. And to build a business around it is totally a different story.. I'm also still learning the last two..

First for the time being, lets try out creating a game..

First of all...

What is a GAME?

It's an activity. An Activity that a person can interact with and in return brings the player a sense of achievement.

What types of games are out there?

There are many many game genres out there. Its important to decide what is the type of the game that you are going to build before you start designing. Design of your game is the core of your game. You need to decide your target audience to optimize the game experience. What emotion you are trying tackle.

In other words a game is an piece of art. Always remember, people remember how you made them feel. Not anything else.

Enough Theory, Lets START

STEP1

Set up the development environment

Go to this link http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

There you'll find instructions on installing the development kit.

STEP2

Create the project..

Keep pushing next and finish the wizard.

Close the active tab and now you'll be shown your workspace...

First of all change your perspective to java(if something else is being activated. In my case JavaEE)...

Now we can see some important icons which are crucial to Android development.

First one is the SDK manager. And the second one is the Virtual Device Manager.

Click on the SDK manager

As you can see, I have already installed all the SDK Platform, System Images and Google APIs for all the API versions. Please do the same. It might take some time to finish installing all the stuff.