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Android Game Programming By Example

You're reading from   Android Game Programming By Example Harness the power of the Android SDK by building three immersive and captivating games

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785280122
Length 388 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Player 1 UP FREE CHAPTER 2. Tappy Defender – First Step 3. Tappy Defender – Taking Flight 4. Tappy Defender – Going Home 5. Platformer – Upgrading the Game Engine 6. Platformer – Bob, Beeps, and Bumps 7. Platformer – Guns, Life, Money, and the Enemy 8. Platformer – Putting It All Together 9. Asteroids at 60 FPS with OpenGL ES 2 10. Move and Draw with OpenGL ES 2 11. Things That Go Bump – Part II Index

Drawing the scene

As we will see, drawing a bitmap is really trivial. But the coordinate system that we use to draw our graphics onto needs a brief explanation.

Plotting and drawing

When we draw a Bitmap object to the screen, we pass in the coordinates we want to draw the object at. The available coordinates of a given Android device depend on the resolution of its screen.

For example, the Samsung Galaxy S4 phone has a screen resolution of 1920 pixels (across) by 1080 pixels (down) when held in a landscape view.

The numbering system of these coordinates starts in the top-left hand corner at 0,0 and proceeds down and to the right until the bottom right corner is pixel 1919, 1079. The apparent 1 pixel disparity between 1920/ 1919 and 1080/ 1079 is because the numbering starts at 0.

Therefore, when we draw a bitmap or any other drawable to the screen, we must specify x, y coordinates.

Furthermore, a bitmap is, of course, comprised of many pixels. So which pixel of a given bitmap is drawn at the...

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