Before starting Android Game development . What we should know before we jump to mobile game development the smartphone market, app stores market and games market .

1. Before starting
Android Game Development

2. About Me
My name is Samundra kc , I am
student of Softwarica college of IT
and Ecommerce’s Batch 13 `A`
Studying Level 4 Diploma in
Computing.
12/8/2014

3. Contents
1. Top Smartphone OS
2. Smartphone market
3. Apps and Apps Market
4. Games Market
5. Selecting Android
6. Selecting Java
7. Game Engine
8. Selecting Game Engine
9. Requirements

4. Before jumping to the contents
I want to show famous 3
games that has been played
most till date in smartphones

5. Most Played Games
• Angry Birds
•Temple Run
• Candy Crush

6. Angry Birds
Information
• Developed by Rovio
Entertainment
• Released First on December
2009 for IOS
• Downloaded more then
2billion times
• Platform used IOS, Android,
Windows
• Earned more then $1billion

7. Angry Birds
• Angry Birds game was first launched on 2009 for IOS device
later it was launched for other platforms.
• There is on developer who was part of game development is
from Nepal
• The concept behind shooting enemy in angry birds is also
related to Nepal like throwing birds from a elastic rubber
named slingshot.

8. Temple Run
Information
• Developed by Imangi
studios
• Released first on August 4,
2011 for IOS
• Downloaded more then
1billion times
• Platform used IOS, Android,
Windows Phone
• Earned more then
$50million

9. Temple Run
• Temple Run was first launched on August 4, 2011 for IOS and
for Android and Windows in March 27, 2012 and March 27,
2013 respectively.
• Temple Run was developed just by 3 people where two of
them where husband and wife and next guy was graphics
designer whom they hire later for better graphics.
• Temple Run was first paid app , user have to pay some amount
to play this game.
• Later Temple Run was declared as a free game and instantly it
became #1 free game in app store.

10. Candy Crush
Information
• Developed by king
Company
• Released first on April 12,
2012 for Facebook
• Downloaded more then half
billion times in both
Facebook and mobile device
• Platforms used Facebook,
IOS, Android
• Earned more then $1billion

11. Candy Crush
• Candy Crush was first launched on April 12, 2012 for
Facebook.
• Candy Crush was first written using Flash and Actionscript 3
for Facebook.
• Candy Crush is still most played game Worldwide.
• As of November 2014 the Facebook edition has 755 regular
levels and 485 Dreamworld levels.
• Candy Crush Saga Surpassed Farmville 2 as the most popular
games on Facebook with 46million average monthly average
users.

12. 1. Top Smartphone OS

13. 1. Top Smartphone OS
Top Smartphone Till date
• Android from Google
• IOS from Apple
• Windows from Microsoft Windows

14. 2. Smartphone Market
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2011 2012 2013
Android
Apple
Windows
(Source : www.mobilestatistics.com )

15. 2. Smartphone Market
• Android is Top Smartphone
• Android device has been sold 1,44,720,300 times till date
• Android has very strong market in Asia then in other continent
like Europe, Australia and in U.S.A
• Apple has very strong market in Europe , Australia and in
U.S.A and in Asia countries like China, Japan, Korea and India
• Windows is still searching a place to prove itself as a good
smartphone device

16. 3. Apps and Apps Market
Apps we develop will not get perfect audience
that our apps target so Apps market plays a vital role for
our apps to be reached within target audience device .
Every top smartphone OS company have there
respective Apps Market.
Top used Apps Market are given below:

17. 3. Apps and Apps Market
Top used Apps Market Worldwide
• Play Store by Google for Android device
• Apps Store by Apple for IOS device
• Window Phone Store by Microsoft Windows for windows
device
In order to upload our Apps in the above market place we have to make a developer
id and pay certain lifetime fee after that we can upload as many apps we want where
in Google’s Play store apps will be published after we upload apps but in Apple’s
Apps store there is still one step where staff of Apple will review our app and decide
whether to publish or not.

18. 3. Apps and Apps Market
Fee to be paid for making developr id
• $25 for Google’s Play store
• $99 for Apple’s Apps store
• Window’s Window Phone store
• $19 for Individual Account
• $99 for Company Account

19. 4. Games Market
Smartphone Top App
Downloads
Total Apps Total App Store
Revenue
Apple 27,000,000,000 905,000 $6,400,000,000
Android 29,000,000,000 8,50,000 $1,200,000,000
Windows 4,100,000,000 1,30,000 $950,000,00
Here, 25 % of App store revenue is from games
• $1,600,000,000 from Apple
• $300,000,000 from Android
• $237,500,000 from Windows
It means there is a lot of money flowing in gaming sector where we can also utilize
our skill and be part of this huge market.
(Source: www.statisticbrain.com)

20. 5. Selecting Android
Why Android ?
• Android has largest audience then others Smartphone.
• Android is easy , flexible , fast and affordable.
• Many Nepali people carry Android Device because it is
affordable as Nepali people’s budget.
• Android can be developed in Windows , Mac , Linux platform
unlike IOS where we have to buy mac to develop IOS Apps.
• Developer id fee is cheap which is just $25 can be paid from
bank account or credit card.
• JAVA is the programming language used to write Android
Apps

21. 6. Selecting JAVA
Why JAVA ?
• JAVA is fast , secure , and reliable.
• JAVA has very simple grammar.
• From Laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific super
computers cell phones to internet java is every where.
• JAVA is (OOP) Object Oriented Programming Language.
• JAVA is also known as “write once run everywhere” which
means we don’t have to write application for different
platforms.
• Android Apps can be written in JAVA programming language
using Android API in Android SDK

22. 7. Game Engine
What is Game Engine?
A Game Engine is a software framework
designed for the creation and development
of video games.
Video game developers use them to create
games for video games, mobile devices and
personal computers.

23. 7. Game Engine
Famous Game Engine
Game Engine Language Platform
Unity 3D C# (c sharp) ,
JavaScript
Android, IOS , Desktop
AndEngine Java Android
LibGDX Java Android, IOS, HTML5
Cocos 2D C++ Windows, OSX, Linux,
Android , IOS
Jmonkey Engine Java Cross Platform
(Source: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_game_engines)

24. 8. Selecting Game Engine
Game Engine for Android
• AndEngine
• JMonkeyEngine
• LibGDX

25. 8. Selecting Game Engine
AndEngine
AndEngine is developed by a young
developer Nicolas gramlich . It is freely
available to download from AndEngine
website .
AndEngine is currently most
used game engine to develop android
games also there is a big community of
developer to help new developer for
developing a game.

26. 8. Selecting Game Engine
AndEngine
The file we have downloaded from
AndEngine website has to be imported
in Eclipse IDE .
“In the picture in left side is AndEngine
imported in Eclipse IDE”
AndEngine handles all the screen sizes
so that we that can focus on our game
logics rather then maintaining
screen size for different devices also
AndEngine have integrated BOX2D
Physics Extension which makes our
game more realistic.

27. 8. Selecting Game Engine
Jmonkey Engine
JMonkey Engine is also an IDE
where we can develop game
visually , It is integrated with
NetBeans IDE which makes
developing game more easy and
fast.
JMonkey Engine is Open Source
and free available to download we
can sell our games in develop.

28. 8. Selecting Game Engine
Jmonkey Engine
JMonkey Engine is mainly used to
develop desktop games also it
develop games for Android.
Jmonkey Engine also have integrated
Physics with it which make games
more realstic.

29. 8. Selecting Game Engine
libGDX Engine
libGDX is a free game engine
available to download to all the
users.
It is widely used to develop games
for mobile platform and also for
HTML5 games .
We can write code once and
libgdx will generate games for all
major platforms like IOS,
Windows, Desktop , Android,
HTML5

30. 8. Selecting Game Engine
libGDX Engine
We have to download a jar file from
libGDX website which is a GUI
Application there we have to select
the platform and the physics engine
which we will use in our game after
that libGDX will generate a source
file which we can open in TOP IDE
like Netbeans, Eclipse and Intellija
IDE.

31. 9. Requirements
• Knowledge of JAVA
• OOP concepts in JAVA
• Knowledge of Android API
• One Android Device
• Personal Computer
• Graphics Editor Software
• Android SDK and Eclipse IDE
• Game Engine (AndEngine recommended)
• Creative mind
• Intelligence in Math and Physics

32. References & Sources
• Andngine (http://www.andengine.org)
• JMonkeyEngine (http://www.jmonkeyengine.org)
• libGDX (www.badlogics.com)
• Android (www.android.com)
• JAVA (www.java.com & www.sun-microsystem.com)
• Temple Run (www.imangistudios.com)
• Angry Birds (www.rovio.com)
• Candy Crush(www.candycrushsaga.com)
• Game Engine (www.wikipedia.org/wiki/game_engine)

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34. Thank You …