Android game design guidelines

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These guides contain best practices and tasks to consider when designing your Android game.

In this section

• Support gaming devices

  • Support 64-bit architectures: Add support for 64-bit architecture to your game. The Google Play Store requires 64-bit support.

  • Support all screen types: Support all screen types used by Android gaming devices. The form factors include mobile, foldable, tablet, and large screen (laptop and desktop). This is increasingly important because Android games can run on ChromeOS devices and Windows computers through Google Play Games for PC.

  • Vulkan pre-rotation: Handle device orientation efficiently when using the Vulkan graphics API.

• 3D asset design guidelines: View best practices for designing 3D assets for mobile games.

• Vertex data management: Learn about vertex layout and compression techniques that can improve graphics performance in your game.

Additional guidelines

• Android game optimization overview: Tools, APIs, tasks, and best practices for Android game optimization.