Android 2D Game advice

Question

Hi there I want to design 2D games for android but I don't know where to start. I haven't developed any software for android platform either. Should I first learn programming on Android platform or find a book about 2D game development for Android and start from there?

Thanks for your help Much appreciated..

Answer 1

Start with programming on the Android platform. Continue with a game framework, there are many. But almost all of them are some packages with classes added on top of the Android classes - it's not a brand new framework. So you must be familiar with the regular Android platform.

For the game framework, there are a few I know, pick one:

• AndEngine
• libGDX
• cocos2d-android

Personally, I know AndEngine and it is really good in my opinion. There were some discussions about these 3 frameworks on SO, here are some of them:

• Should I use cocos2D or andengine?
• Andengine vs libgdx
• What's the best free Android game engine? [closed]
• Cocos2D OR libgdx for Android Game Developement (AndEngine is mentioned here too).