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How to make your own Android Game

In this article, I will describe all necessary steps required to produce and publish an Android App of your own.

I will write this article in the form of a log of what actions I do myself while I prepare a development environment and write a simple clone of an arcade game from the golden era of the late 70's.

This means that unlike most other tutorials, this one will also include all the "lessons learned", the typical pitfalls and the common mistakes. Hopefully so that you don't have to repeat them yourself. ;-)

 

A simple animated star field

Sometimes it might look a bit empty between the objects in a typical, simple game.

One way of bringing some life onto the screen is to draw an animated background behind the objects, for example a star field.

A simple way of doing this is to create two classes; Star and StarHandler.

Star.java:

Securing your Linux server

One thing I noticed when I started announcing my posts on Twitter was the huge increase in brute-force SSH login attempts from zombie machines all over the world.

Steve Jenkins has written a really useful article describing the top-20 things he does to secure a fresh Linux install: http://stevejenkins.com/blog/2010/11/things-i-do-first-on-a-vanilla-linux-system/

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