We need to prepare pre-rendered sprites of all game objects. Usually, graphical packages like 3DMax, allowing working with 3D scenes, are used for that. To get a rectangular isometric projection we need to turn a camera, aligned parallel the floor and coordinate axes, down to ≈35.264° around the horizontal axis and ±45° around the vertical axis. Continue reading →
Recently we at AndroidDevStudio were hardly working on our brand new pseudo 3D Android game and we want to share some of our experience with all Android community members.
And of course every part will be with commented source code.
We are surrounded by a three-dimension world and that’s why it’s obvious that we got used to interact with three-dimension objects. That is why, in the majority of cases three-dimensioning representation of some process, for example a game, is preferable for an end user, than something other. Due to that fact, three-dimension applications, at other equal conditions, will be better perceived by users, than two-dimension ones. But 3D applications have 2 serious disadvantages:
Today I want to give an overview of things you should do to publish application on Android Market. Hope it would be useful for you.
OK, so let’s start from the very beginning.
Yep, idea – is what you should prepare first. It would be great to prepare well-formed and described plan of your application. You should answer yourself – “Why someone needs you app?” , “How could it help?”, “What is the aim of this app?”. These questions are really important to create cool application, and it’s not only for Android – it’s applicable for all the software. It may be also good to think about what do YOU need, what can help YOU and with this you can start describing your app.
So, I hope at this point you have determined for yourself what you are going to create. It’s essential to obtain high-quality application for Android platform. As concerns technical side of development you may want to take a look at Google Docs, particularly you may be interested in Getting Started section and in Sample Code section. By the way, we are going to post some interesting practical tutorials, say “How to” series. Subscribe to our RSS feed and Email feed to be informed about it.
As usual and as we do it, keep your code clear, readable, well-commented and make it works smoothly. Keep in mind that it is really important to keep application working well, your user do not care why it crashed, so it should not. Ever.
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This short overview is about installing non-market applications on your G1 phone. There are lots of ways to get .apk file for your Android phone – you may buy applications via your computer or download some for free, e.g. our logical game for Android - Brain Twister.
After you get the .apk file you need to install it on your device. There are some ways to do it.
adb install <Full Path to apk file><apk file name>