Tag Archives: Android SDK

Adding a Game Menu in Cocos2D for Android

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Vykthur

As you create sophisticated games, your games will need to have a “landing” page or menu page with nice graphics and a  button or two to access the main sections of the game. Such buttons popularly are the “start” , … Continue reading →

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Handling Sound in Cocos2D for Android

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Vykthur

Screenshot credits from one of my games – Puzzbox Africa In many games, sound remains a vital component for achieving interactivity. You may need to play short sound clips in response to events e.g when a button is pressed, a … Continue reading →

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Step by Step Guide on How to build your first Slider Puzzle game in Cocos2d for Android – Part 1

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Vykthur

In the previous post about setting up cocos2d for android game development, I showed you how to import the cocos2d project into Eclipse and run the sample code included to give an idea of the capabilities/affordances of the Cocos2d game … Continue reading →

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Getting ADB to recognize Samsung Galaxy S2 running cyanogenmod 10.1

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Vykthur

… Getting ADB to work on Samsung Galaxy S2 running CyanogenMod 10.1 Android Debug Bridge (adb) is a versatile command line tool that lets you communicate with an emulator instance or connected Android-powered device. It is a client-server program that … Continue reading →

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Setting up Cocos2D for Android, in Eclipse

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Vykthur

… This post is meant to help you set up your first Cocos2D Android Project. Note : The Cocos2D for Android project using in my tutorials are a JAVA port of the Cocos2d-x project written in C/C++ . If you … Continue reading →

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