Advanced Game Development Topics
summary
Shows how to integrate GamesClient, PlusClient and AppStateClient together to avoid multiple sign-in popups, and how Cloud Save uses loadState / updateState / resolveState conflict merge (take max stars per level) so progress isn’t lost. Gives NativeActivity JNI patterns, warns about thread errors and GC, recommends runOnUiThread and NewGlobalRef, and explains buffer costs and allocateDirect. Covers GameHelper/BaseGameActivity, Waiting Room UX, match variants (1–1023) and getRealTimeSocketForParticipant → getParcelFileDescriptor for native sockets.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:59SignIn
- 5:01GameSpy
- 9:19Threading
- 13:28Cloud Safe
- 19:34ThirdParty Engines
- 24:48Custom UIs
- 27:42Waiting Rooms
- 31:10Variants
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