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Creating Mobile Games

Using Java ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile Device and Cell Phone

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Carol Hamer
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  • First Java games book for the newly updated and now open source Java Micro Edition (ME)

  • First and only Java book to cover MIDP versions 1, 2, and the new 3

  • Clear, accessible writing and exposition with complete working examples

  • Online updates and discussion available (through my blog)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Getting Started

    Pages 1-19

  3. Using MIDlets

    Pages 21-51

  4. Using the MIDP 2 Games API

    Pages 53-94

  5. Using Threads and Media

    Pages 95-129

  6. Storing and Retrieving Data

    Pages 131-192

  7. Using Network Communications

    Pages 193-262

  8. Advanced Messaging and Data Access

    Pages 263-303

  9. Securing Your Applications

    Pages 305-316

  10. The Mobile 3D Graphics API

    Pages 317-350

  11. Adding a Professional Look and Feel

    Pages 351-407

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 409-416
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About this book

Creating Mobile Games: Using Java ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile Device and Cell Phone is a practical build-it-yourself mobile Java games book with lots of complete working code and advice:

  • Shows you how to create a basic game and make it a professional one (by adding a pro look-and-feel by writing your own menus or using the open source J2ME Polish, and enabling marketing/billing from your own web site)
  • Demonstrates Wireless Messaging and other optional APIs (using SMS, PIM, File Connection, Bluetooth, and so forth in a multiplayer game)
  • Covers MIDP3

About the authors

Carol Hamer received her Ph.D. in number theory from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Since then, she has worked as a software engineer for 10 years in the U.S., France, and Switzerland, including three years working for In-Fusio Mobile Games. Carol has written three books on mobile game programming for Apress: J2ME Games with MIDP2, Creating Mobile Games, and Learn BlackBerry Games Development. She writes a blog called A Little Bitty Java (http://bittyjava.wordpress.com) with programming ideas, troubleshooting tips, and code samples.

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