Android App Development - Introduction

When I think back to my childhood, I think of the times my family used to go to the arcade/games centre. While playing the various games, I always had the same thought: "This game is awesome, but I wish I could change it so that it could have this feature or that feature". It was at this early age that I realized that it surely must be so fun to create and develop games. Fast forward into the future, the practicality and financial stability of game development didn't seem like a viable option in South Africa. So unfortunately, I ended up not pursuing it. It was only when I started studying Computer Science at university and had my first module in Android Development, did the excitement return. One of my first android applications was to create a media player. Oh, man, this was a fun but definitely challenging experience. Later in that same year, I partnered up with a friend to create a game. Yes, an actual game, just like I had dreamed when I was a child. The id...