Android game frameworks

Third-party game frameworks are used for creating Android games. These app creation platforms offer a lot of functionality and ease of use for developers.

This overview of SDKs for Android game frameworks provides you with the most-used and well-known libraries used in many different apps, including SDKs like Unity 3D, Cocos2D-X, Gamemaker: Studio and Cocos2D.

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Libraries

Unity 3D

Unity is a feature rich, fully integrated development engine for the creation of interactive 3D con…

11.01% of apps

12.31% of installs

Cocos2D-X

Cocos2d-x is an open-source mobile 2D game framework written in C++.

1.62% of apps

2.16% of installs

libgdx

The libgdx project is a cross-platform game development library written in Java with some JNI code …

0.81% of apps

0.56% of installs

Simple DirectMedia Layer

A cross-platform software development library for multimedia that runs on Android, iOS, Linux, macO…

0.19% of apps

0.33% of installs

Corona SDK

Corona is a cross-platform framework ideal for rapidly creating apps and games for mobile devices a…

0.31% of apps

0.18% of installs

Gamemaker: Studio

Cross-platform game development framework

0.26% of apps

0.14% of installs

AndEngine

AndEngine is a free Android 2D OpenGL Game Engine.

0.12% of apps

0.12% of installs

jMonkeyEngine

A complete 3D game development suite written purely in Java.

0.00% of apps

0.05% of installs

Godot

Godot Engine is a free and open-source community-driven 2D and 3D game engine.

0.07% of apps

0.02% of installs

Cocos2D

Cocos2d is an open-source mobile 2D game framework.

0.02% of apps

0.02% of installs

GameSalad

GameSalad is a drag and drop game platform to build 2D games with no code.

0.03% of apps

0.00% of installs