Farnham, UK--For years, Java programmers who wanted to create cool, adrenaline-fueled games had to give up Java for C, C++, or even assembly language--or program around Java's unacceptable frame ...

I don't know of any books, but I wrote a 2d game in Java which I lifted from download from the Java Boutique website. At least in 2001 there were tons of games and you could download the source code.

There's more than one way to make an Android game! In this post, I take a look at creating 2D sprite-based games with Java and Android Studio.