Android Multiplayer Game Development
Using AppWarp, developers can now add realtime communication in their Android games to build beautiful, rich and engaging multiplayer games. The great thing is that developers can do this without any server side code or socket level programming as all the communication is managed by AppWarp Java SDK and cloud.
Option 1: Use Appwarp Android SDK gradle dependency
Add the following line in your gradle.properties
authToken=jp_n0cr04o1s0as4utq72eqd1o1co
Add following code in your project level build.gradle file
allprojects { repositories { . . . . . . maven { url "https://jitpack.io" credentials { username authToken } } } }
Add following line in your app level build.gradle file
dependencies { . . . . . . implementation 'com.github.shephertz:AppWarp_JAVA_SDK:2.7' }
Option 2: Download AppWarp Android SDK and setup locally
Samples
Fruity Monster AndEngine demo code walkthrough
We will create a simple realtime multiplayer AndEngine game, Fruity Monster, by integrating with AppWarp.
View the code walk-through
How to handle Connection issues in Android devices while developing Multiplayer Games – AppWarp
Blogs
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