Wednesday 3 September 2014

Android: Perfect Platform for Game Development

Gaming has always been a strong driver in the advancement of technology. There have been a variety of hardware’s and input methods, software and graphic support for gaming. Today, with the increasing number of game players on mobile devices, android platform is the one that has been embraced by numerous game developers.

Earlier, there were only a few brands with a team of professional developers to build gaming platform services that could leverage high performing and engaging games. But, today mobile devices have transformed the scenario of game development. The user base is large, there is no dearth of opportunities and also the mobile developers have access to more development tools and services unlike before. The Android platform is one of the mature and a favorite platform among all, which is a reason that the number of android game development companies is rising drastically. The tools and services for game development that act as a magnet for the android platform are as follows:

1. Unrestricted Entry : Restricted entry has always been a barrier for the developers. While, on the android platform anyone can write and publish an app. The apps can be written using the language JAVA, which is a popular OOP language globally.

2.  Android NDK : Game libraries can be ported easily. It supports linking the application in JAVA with the C and C++ libraries. 

3. Android SDK : It offers a full featured and a potent set of API’s for the JAVA developer. These are familiar to the developers and also simple to use. The Android’s built-in graphics allow the developers to create effortless, creative graphics and with the Open GL ES support graphic intensive applications can be written.

Apart from the above tools, a plenty of third party engines are available that allow rapid android game development, assist in portability, provide tools to generate game assets et al. Also, the third party libraries provide optimization, saving the work on algorithm development. Thus, it is seen that on the android platform, game developers have an access to numerous tools.

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