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Android Games

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

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Develop
Enable your players to experience immersive and seamless cross-platform gameplay. Grow your business by distributing your games easily across mobile, tablets, Chromebooks, and Windows PCs.
Design
Get your game on—on large screens for a more visual, more interactive, more immersive gaming experience.

Core workflow

Develop
Get this set of tools and libraries that help you develop Android games while integrating with existing platforms and workflows.
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.

Highlighted resources

Find all your tools in one place.
Find sample apps and example code.
Follow guided, step-by-step codelabs to complete game development tasks.

Developer stories

How game developers are finding success with Android tools.
Using the Android Games Development Kit, they reduced their ANRs by %35.
Using the Android Game Development Extension (AGDE), they added Android build targets to their Visual Studio projects.
By optimizing for ChromeOS, they gained 6 times as many players.

Community resources

Find stats and analysis for game development businesses.
Get the latest news and tips to grow your games.
See our latest blogs, videos, programs, community, and support resources.
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