Android Engine to Make Game Development Easier?

[NaweG]

The iPhone has the Unity3D engine, and soon you will be able to take a Flash game and run a utility to turn it into an app. Is there anything like that for Android? It's been over a year since I wrote my one released Android app (Mars Lander), and I've got some other games I'd like to do for Android if there's a good tool to help with resource management and a nice GUI level editor or such.

Yes, I am (somewhat obviously) familiar with the SDK and using it with Eclipse. But that's a bit of a confining environment compared to CS5 and Unity3D. So I'm hoping things have progressed to the point where I can spend less time programming and more time designing.

Thanks in advance!

[samyboy280]

Hello

You might want to check my blog, it only has a few posts so far, but one of them is actually aimed at an Android Game Engien. It's 2D though, I'm not sure if you are after a 3D game engine, if yes you should probably take a look at Unity3D, which does indeed provide some functionality for the Android platform, it is shareware though.

Here's the link to my blog, in case your are interested:

Android Game Development

Plus I'd like to note that you really won't ever get around the programming part, it's not like you can just simply design your game and you get a good working, unique game which will rock the Market. If that was the case we'd have millions of good games on the Android Market, which we sadly don't.

Kind Regards

[sohguanh]

If that was the case we'd have millions of good games on the Android Market, which we sadly don't.

I agree to the above. Some like to be game designer than game programmer so if there is a tool to ease the programming part it will be like a god-sent gift and we would have millions of good games in Android Market isn't it? Let's wait a-while to see if such a tool is created or not.