Like the title says, I'm developing a game for Android. The game will be called Plane Popper and is loosely based off of my first DS homebrew game by the same name. Here's a mock-up of what the game will look like using the artwork that I've finished so far.



As far as programming the game goes, I've got a lot of the basics done. I figured out openGL, made my own system for drawing objects in the order I need them to be, and lots of other foundation-type stuff. I've still got a lot to do to make this into a full game, though. It might be a while, but I'm getting there!

 

Thanks. It does take some effort to learn. First I had to learn Java, which is one big mess of a language when you first look at it and I've never had any classes on it. Then I had to learn how to use the Android SDK. I actually started off with using Android's SurfaceView and Canvas system for the graphics but decided that openGL ES would be better. So then I had to learn openGL ES. The worst part is that many of the tutorials are just confusing. Many of the "Draw a square in openGL ES" tutorials also tried to through in things like shaders and other nonsense that isn't needed to draw a square. After you sift through all the crap and figure out what you need then it gets easier.

 

I actually looked into that before, haha. I've developed a pretty good understanding of Java now though so I'm comfortable using it. Like that page says, mixing Java and C++ would increase of the complexity of the app anyway

 

Great job it looks amazing make sure you let us know when its out!!!

 

This is a good place to start. The first three chapters cover Java from a game development stand-point - they're very clear, straight-forward and full of code snippets. The fourth chapter is more of the same, but specifically in Android development. Mind you, it doesn't touch upon OpenGL ES, but you can find a mountain of resources about that online.

 

Looks good.
And good job on figuring out OpenGL. I've tried again and again to make sense of Lazy Foo's tutorial, but it looks way too complex in comparison to SDL and SFML, which I use instead.

 

Thanks everyone I'll let you all know when I release it.

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That's actually the tutorial I used! I tried learning Java before it and made a little progress but that tutorial was the most helpful and really helped me understand it.

As for openGL, this is the tutorial that I eventually made sense of: http://obviam.net/index.php/opengl-es-with-android-switching-from-canvas-to-opengl/
Granted, it took me many hours of many days to really get what was going on.

 

Yeahhh, one step at a time It may also be a good idea to support both 1.0 and 2.0 so that the 0.1% doesn't get left out

 

Good job! I'm also working on my first android game, using LibGdx, which is almost done. I learned java first from TheNewBoston tutorials on YouTube and then learned LibGdx from other various sources