Improving your Android memory management

Intel Developer Blog: Advice for improving memory usage, avoiding Android memory leak and analyzing your Android memory consumption

If you build a memory-hungry application, it can be difficult to fix if it triggers out-of-memory errors. In a new article on Intel Developer Zone, Bin Zhu encourages Android developers to use memory efficient practices from the outset as they write their Android applications.

He offers ten tips for improving memory usage, five tips for avoiding Android memory leaks, and four tips for analysing your Android memory consumption with DDMS, adb and Eclipse Memory Analyzer Tool (MAT).

Adopting these tips can help you to avoid the nightmare scenario where you’ve finished main programming project but have to take on risky refactoring work to get around memory limitations. Read the article here.

For more help with creating your games, visit Intel Developer Zone Android, which also includes testing services and a new video tutorial series.

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Kickass Tools for Mobile Game Developers

This is my post after 3 years of long break !
Remember the days when videogames were considered a living room activity? Now, deciding when, where and how to play them is entirely up to you. Who would have said the smartphone industry could have such an impact on videogames. The future of gaming lies in the hand of competent mobile game developers, and today, we’re here with 5 tools that every mobile game developer should use.

Viximo

An important part of developing a mobile game is let people know of its existence. If you don’t feel like spending a lot of time distributing your apps on every social media platform Viximo will do it for you. Viximo helps app and game developers expand the functionality and reach of their products. They partner with social game developers to publish their games on over a dozen social networks throughout the world.

Game Closure

This small startup based in Silicon Valley builds cutting edge gaming technology. They’ve open-sourced their multiplatform Java game SDK for you to use. Game Closure runs on both mobile and tablet devices.

Scoreoid

This is the ultimate server platform for game developers. If you’d like to talk with game experts while developing your app this is the place for you. Scoreoid is an advanced gaming platform from backend to real time interaction with game players.

Construct 2

This is a mobile game maker for Windows that lets you create iOS, Android and even Facebook games without the need of being a programming genius. Construct 2 is also known as the Photoshop for games and it uses a simple ‘event-based’ interface.  What are your waiting to try it?

YoYo Games

YoYo Games is the home of ‘GameMaker: Studio’, the fastest and easiest to use cross-platform game development technology. The platform uses a drag and drop visual interface to let you create games for Android and iOS.

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