Chapter 1. Operating Systems – Mobile and Otherwise

Developing games for mobile requires many decisions to be taken. Two very important ones concern the platform to develop your game for and the tools you are going to use.

Will your game be developed for a single platform or many? Which are the most popular operating systems of today's mobile phones? Which are the best tools to work with each of them?

In this chapter, we will describe what an operating system is and we will provide an introduction to the most important mobile operating systems (OS).

We will also introduce the reference tools and software to develop games for each mobile platform mentioned.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: