Adapting Android games beyond the phone
summary
Shows that optimizing an Android game for Chromebooks, DeX and upcoming foldables yields measurable gains — Gameloft’s Asphalt 8 sees a 6x increase in daily active users and 9x increase in revenue on Chrome OS after control and UI tweaks. Advises handling configuration changes via onConfigurationChanged, opt into multi‑resume, detect inputs with InputManager and use pointer capture for mice, build x86/Vulkan support, and distribute with Android App Bundles plus Bundletool and Firebase Test Lab for testing.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 13:08Screen Configuration Changes
- 15:02Orientation
- 16:45Full Screen
- 18:55Multi-Resume
- 21:20Keyboard Config Changes
- 22:22Detecting hardware inputs cont.
- 24:51Mouse Capture
- 33:17bundletool
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