Mobile gaming is taking new heights with improved technology and software. With iPhone being pioneers into good mobile gaming, others take a look at this and see this as an opportunity to seize new territory and expand their horizons.
One such technology is the Android platform. Android itself is a wonderful thing, a platform where you can put anywhere, PC's, phones, printers, monitors, toasters? And with the Java based language , it's "Write Once, Run Anywhere" which is convenient , seeing as how the OS takes itself.
There are some problems with the platform however. The biggest one ,I think, would be the community itself. I'm not saying that the community is terrible and no one is willing to help, far from it. What I am saying is that it's full of hopefuls. People who want to make something rather than actually doing something. A lot of the software on the Android market is sub-par and not quite polished, especially in the field of gaming.
The resources on developing games is also quite sparse as there is no real basis to create your game. The API demo that SDK comes with is buggy and is a terrible example to base ones game upon i.e "Lunar Lander"/"Snake"
I hope to figure out all this mess and create a simple document that can be used as a basis/foundation for game development on the Android. It is much needed.
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