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Android Games Dev Center

Get everything you need to develop and deliver games on Android: tools, downloads, samples, libraries, and guidance.

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Case study
The Vulkan cross-platform 3D graphics API enabled a 30% performance improvement in Summoners War Chronicles by Com2uS.
Develop
Discover how you can use PGS as a companion to your existing sign-in mechanisms, and seamlessly sync players' sign-in information across devices.

Priority workstreams

Improve graphics performance so you can reduce slow sessions or improve graphics quality.
React to thermal changes to avoid slow sessions caused by thermal throttling with ADPF. ADPF will also help the system react to changes in the game workload for better performance.
Make your game run everywhere with multiplatform support and optimizations for large screens.

Developer stories

How game developers are finding success with Android tools.
"Kakao Games's Ares was able to increase FPS stability to 96%by adjusting the workload at runtime in response to the thermal API."
"Vulkan reduced development overhead and friction and enabled delivery of authentic, high-fidelity Call of Duty content and gameplay to Android players."
"Vulkan allowed Com2uS to provide the best possible graphics quality for their key user demographic on both PC and mobile devices."

Highlighted resources

Optimize
Analyze the impact your game has on Android devices by using this powerful graphics profiler, so you can identify performance issues and areas to optimize.
Deliver
Add social and competitive game services such as profiles, leaderboards, and achievements, and then deploy your Android game through the Google Play store.
Find all your tools in one place.
Find sample apps and example code.
Follow guided, step-by-step codelabs to complete game development tasks.

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Find stats and analysis for game development businesses.
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