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Learning Java by Building Android Games

You're reading from   Learning Java by Building Android Games Extend your game development skills while learning Java – follow this book and learn Java for Android to enter the world of Android games development with greater confidence

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784398859
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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John Horton John Horton
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Preface 1. Why Java, Android, and Games? FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Android 3. Speaking Java – Your First Game 4. Discovering Loops and Methods 5. Gaming and Java Essentials 6. OOP – Using Other People's Hard Work 7. Retro Squash Game 8. The Snake Game 9. Making Your Game the Next Big Thing A. Self-test Questions and Answers Index

Self-test questions


Q1) What can be used to provide a visual improvement for our game screen? Can we use a nice light green, grassy background instead of just black?

Q2) How about some nice flowers?

Q3) If you're feeling brave, make the flowers sway. Think about what we have learned about sprite sheets. The theory is exactly the same as that of the animated snake head. We just need a few lines of code to control the frame rate separately from the game frame rate.

Q4) We could set up another counter and use our snake head animation in GameActivity, but it wouldn't be that useful because the subtle tongue movements would be barely visible at the smaller size. But could we swish the tail segment?

Q5) Here is a slightly trickier enhancement. You can't help notice that when the snake sprites are headed in three out of the four possible directions, they don't look right. Can you fix this?

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