Coding the Bat input handling
You probably remember we saw the onTouchEvent
method in the Sub' Hunter project. It was provided by the Activity
class. In this project, however, the input handling is not in the Activity
class. If it were, we would need to somehow share values between the PongActivity
and PongGame
classes and things might get into a bit of a muddle. Fortunately, the onTouchEvent
method is also provided by the SurfaceView
class, which the PongGame
class extends (inherits from).
This time, we will make our code a little bit more advanced to handle left, right, and stop as well as to trigger setting mPaused
to false and start the game.
Important note
Even this more advanced touch handling code is still quite primitive compared to a professional game. We will increase the professionalism and effectiveness of our touch handling code in the final two projects. It is then left as an exercise for you to come back and improve the Pong game code.
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