Category: Miscellaneous

Lately, I’ve been more interested in learning about emulators and interpreters, down to the way that CPUs work at a low level. In university, the furthest down we got was C++ and we didn’t spend that much time there, so everything under that has always felt a little like black magic to me. To overcome … Continue reading Happy New Year 2017 Roundup – CHIP-8, Rust, and more»

I recently heard about Learning Java by Building Android Games, a new book by John Horton. John was one of the reviewers for OpenGL ES 2 for Android: A Quick Start Guide and helped me out when I was writing the book, so when I found out that he had a book of his own, … Continue reading Learning Java by Building Android Games — a New Android Game Coding Books for Beginners»

In my previous post on this topic, A performance comparison between Java and C on the Nexus 5, I compared the performance of an audio low-pass filter in Java and C. The results were clear: The C version outperformed, and by a significant amount. This result brought more attention to the post than I was expecting; some of … Continue reading A performance comparison redux: Java, C, and Renderscript on the Nexus 5»

Two big names in the game development community are celebrating their achievements as they reach important milestones and bring their work to the community: libGDX 1.0 released Zero to 95,688: How I wrote Game Programming Patterns Congrats to you guys, and thanks for sharing your work with the world! In other news, I’d like to thank El androide … Continue reading OpenGL Roundup, April 29, 2014: Milestones»

Android phones have been growing ever more powerful with time, with the Nexus 5 sporting a quad-core 2.3 GHz Krait 400; this is a very powerful CPU for a mobile phone. With most Android apps being written in Java, does Java allow us to access all of that power? Or, put another way, is Java … Continue reading A performance comparison between Java and C on the Nexus 5»

Here’s the beginning of a new series on OpenGL ES 2.0 for iOS, using Apple’s GLKit. GLKit to the max: OpenGL ES 2.0 for iOS – Part 1: GLKit Features OpenGL ES 2: How does it draw? ROBOVM BACKEND IN LIBGDX NIGHTLIES AND FIRST PERFORMANCE FIGURES! – Libgdx is moving to a new backend for iOS … Continue reading OpenGL Roundup, September 19, 2013»

From the Android Developers Website: OpenGL ES 3.0 for High-Performance Graphics Android 4.3 introduces platform support for Khronos OpenGL ES 3.0, providing games and other apps with highest-performance 2D and 3D graphics capabilities on supported devices. You can take advantage of OpenGL ES 3.0 and related EGL extensions using either framework APIs or native API … Continue reading Android 4.3 Jelly Bean Introduces Support for OpenGL ES 3.0»

OpenGL ES 2 for Android is now in full color print! Have you ever wanted to learn more about OpenGL and graphics programming? With OpenGL ES 2 for Android: A Quick-Start Guide, you’ll learn about modern OpenGL graphics programming from the ground up. You’ll find out all about shaders and the OpenGL pipeline, and discover the power … Continue reading OpenGL ES 2 for Android, Printed in Full Color»

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I’m happy to announce that my book, OpenGL ES 2 for Android: A Quick-Start Guide, is now being readied to be sent off to the printers! I owe a special thanks to the publishers, to you guys, my readers and reviewers, and I also owe a special thanks to Mario Zechner, the creator of libgdx, … Continue reading Beginning Android Games, to Learn More About Game Development for Android»