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Google Launches the Android Game Development Kit

July 19, 2021

Via: InfoQ

The Android Game Development Kit (AGDK) aims to make it easier to develop, optimize, and deliver Android games. Composed of both existing and new tools and libraries, the Android Game Development Kit is built using C and C++ APIs to maximize performance.

One of the main goal of AGDK is enabling the creation of games for Android reducing the necessity of using Java to a minimum. This is motivated by the fact that most games and game engines are written in C or C++ for performance reasons and bridging C/C++ and the Java Android platform using JNI is usually a complex task. So, AGDK will provide such bridging and take care of all the inherent complexity of using JNI to ensure interoperability.

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