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This book is for savvy Android app developers who are looking for professional or advanced techniques for porting, augmenting and building 2D and 3D game apps that are complex, fun and lucrative. Table of Contents Welcome to Android Gaming Gaming Tricks: More Gaming Tricks: Hybrid 3D Graphics with OpenGL and JNI Efficient Graphics with OpenGL ES 2.02D Shooters with OpenGL: Doom-like App for Android 3D Shooters Part I: Quake-like App 3D Shooters Part II: Quake II Appendix: Deployment and Compilation Tips