Abstract—With the popularity of Android smart phones, all
kinds of mobile online games have sprung up like mushrooms. As
online card games are a kind of virtual reality simulation system
which has the strong ability to create a game environment with
immersive realistic scenes, online card games are getting
increasingly popular and have been widely played, especially
among middle-aged men. The paper introduces some key
technologies for implementing a mobile online card game based
on Android called Texas Hold’em Poker. The game adopts three
layers of C/S model to complete the construction of the system
and uses MySQL as the database. In the client, not only are some
nice interfaces and animations based on 2D graphics presented,
but also the steps to realize them are described in detail.
Meanwhile, a multiplayer server is constructed by means of
SmartFoxServer2X engine, which has a strong ability to support
large-scale concurrent user access. In particular, the concepts
called Lobby, Zones and Rooms are established, which allow to
organize Zones into Lobby as well as organize Rooms into Zones.
One Zone represents a kind of card game and one Room stands
for a poker table. Programmers could develop other card games
by referencing techn