Now, there"s a practical, hands-on guide to mastering 2D and 3D game development for Android 3.0 with the Android SDK and Eclipse IDE. One step at a time, this book teaches all facets of mobile game development, from game design and handling user input through publishing via Google"s Android Market. Top game development author Jonathan S. Harbour starts with the absolute basics, making Android game development accessible even to programmers who"ve never written a game before. In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, he shows how to use free Android development tools to design and construct high-performance, highly-playable games for the newest Android smartphones and tablets. Among the topics covered in this book: * Getting started with the Android SDK, display system, and touch screen * Writing efficient object-oriented game code * Building superior game user interfaces * Integrating audio and GPS into your games * Controlling external applications and leveraging Java libraries *...