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Cardboard VR Projects for Android

You're reading from   Cardboard VR Projects for Android Develop mobile virtual reality apps using the native Google Cardboard SDK for Android

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785887871
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Virtual Reality for Everyone FREE CHAPTER 2. The Skeleton Cardboard Project 3. Cardboard Box 4. Launcher Lobby 5. RenderBox Engine 6. Solar System 7. 360-Degree Gallery 8. 3D Model Viewer 9. Music Visualizer Index

Time for animation


It's time to throw in a little more excitement. Let's animate the cube so that it rotates. This'll help demonstrate the shading as well.

For this, we need a Time class. This is a singleton utility class that ticks off frames and makes that information available to the application, for example, via getDeltaTime. Note that this is a final class, which explicitly means that it cannot be extended. There is no such thing as a static class in Java, but if we make the constructor private, we can ensure that nothing will ever instantiate it.

Create a new Time class in the renderbox/ folder. It won't be getting extended, so we can declare it final. Here's the code:

public final class Time {
    private Time(){}
    static long startTime;
    static long lastFrame;
    static long deltaTime;
    static int frameCount;

    protected static void start(){
        frameCount = 0;
        startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        lastFrame = startTime;
    }
    protected static...
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