The Design And Development Of Children’ Literacy Game Based On The Android

Abstract： With the increasing development in intelligent mobile system,touch-screen technology and3G technology, smartphone (Android, iPhone, etc.) andtablet personal computer (IPAD, Surface, Galaxy Note, etc.) is becoming the mostfashionable products for daily use. As the same time, the accelerated pace of life andincreased time of fragmentation result in a kind of flexible learning strategy based onmobile devices. However some questions such as how to use mobile devices to learnbetter, how to make learners keeping interested in mobile learning and how to improvemobile learning efficiency is becoming the key to development of mobile learningMeanwhile, the video game industry which provides a reference to solve suchproblems is booming. Some ideas are coming up in people’s minds such as is it possibleto make mobile phones as the carrier or put mobile phone games into the mobilelearning. In order to achieve the purpose of best learning effect, it is quite significant tocombine the portability of the mobile phone, the freedom of mobile learning, immersivegames together and to take the ideas of entertaining into the mobile educational system.In this article, the author, firstly, gives an explicit portrayal of literature researches,mobile learning and educational games. Then the author makes an investigation in termsof current existing mobile platforms in the children’s game of actual experience. Finally,the author chooses the children’s literacy on the Android platform as an example ofgame development. Under the guidance of the theory of constructivism, Learn throughplay, Informal learning, this game puts forward preliminary design concepts; mainlyfocus on Instructional Design and game mechanics analysis and design of the childrenliteracy game. Besides, in the game development process, this article mainly analyzesthe development principles of Android educational games. In doing this, this article is toachieve the main function of children’s literacy game. Finally, by means of theapplication of the test, this article completes a children’s literacy game based on theAndroid platform.