For beginning iOS developers who want to write games and interactive applications.

Take your game ideas from paper to pixels using Sprite Kit, Apple's 2D game development engine. Build two exciting games using Sprite Kit and learn real-world, workshop-tested insights about game design, including cognitive...

Crammed with insightful instruction and helpful examples, this fifth edition of Android Recipes...

Silverlight and XNA provide you with a powerful development platform and key tools for programming Windows Phone 7 series applications. This book offers a foundation for using the tools required for Windows Phone 7 development, including Visual Studio...

This book brings together many of my routines that have been programmed over the years. Routines range from fading a screen up and down and moving tiles around in Mappy, the tile map editor which can be found at www.tilemap.co.uk The code in this book have been written using GLBasic, C, Javascript, PureBasic, DarkBasic Professional and...

• Implement the critical main game loop and structure your games to enable an array of advanced features
• Animate your characters with sprite sheets, add multiple scrolling parallax...

• Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
• This book will guide you through using the Twitter JSON API and Phonegap as a simple way to...

• See what Material design is about and how to apply it your apps
• Explore the possibilities to develop apps that works on any type of device
• A step-by-step practical guide that will help you build improved...

• Create a complete game with advanced techniques through the course of the book using in-depth, hands-on instructions
• Learn how to multi-task and improve performance optimization in your game...

• Increase your Delphi productivity with this accessible and swift guide
• Explore vital and powerful features while developing mobile...

Pro Android 5 shows you how to build real-world and fun mobile apps using the Android 5 SDK. This book updates the best-selling Pro Android and covers everything from the fundamentals of building apps for smartphones, tablets, and embedded devices to advanced concepts such as custom components, multi-tasking,...

If you already know your way around the Android OS and can builda simple Android app in under an hour, this book is for you. Ifyou’re itching to see just how far you can push it anddiscover what Android is really...

You could be the one who creates the next super app - one that is universal, works for both the iPhone and iPad, and is a top seller. It's a great goal, and the road starts here, with this energizing guide. Whether you're a budding...