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You wrote an Android app in C++. ...how!? How did you even learn how to do this? I've never seen a github repo or documentation or tutorials that even mentions doing this. Nothing on the developer.android website, nothing in any YouTube tutorials. I'm blown away.
you can use NDK to create an app with c++
You wrote an Android app in C++. ...how!? How did you even learn how to do this? I've never seen a github repo or documentation or tutorials that even mentions doing this. Nothing on the developer.android website, nothing in any YouTube tutorials. I'm blown away.
https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides you can use NDK to create an app with c++
All the NDK demos/examples I've seen are usually using JNI in some fashion.
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https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides you can use NDK to create an app with c++
Really cool that this is written entirely in CPP. All the NDK demos/examples I've seen are usually using JNI in some fashion.
Also, the graphics look great.
More of a general nooby question: what would be a good way to read through code like this? Where to start? How to understand what's going on and when? etc.
It depends a little bit on how comfortable you are with the platform and the technologies used in the codebase. Generally speaking you would look for the entrypoint into the application. For Hockey Slam you can look for the entrypoint in Windows: https://github.com/Mknsri/HockeySlam/blob/main/windows/win_m... or Android: https://github.com/Mknsri/HockeySlam/blob/main/android/app/s... Then start tracing through, looki…
Congratulations on releasing your game! Doing this all yourself is a major achievement. Also, the graphics look great.
Very cool. Can you point me to the main game loop? I usually start from there when reading source code for games, but I'm having trouble finding yours. Probably just my inexperience, but any links would be great.