You're reading from Learning Java by Building Android Games Learn Java and Android from scratch by building six exciting games

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788839150

Length 774 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Mobile Game Development

Author (1):

John Horton

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Java, Android and Game Development FREE CHAPTER

2. Java: First Contact

3. Variables, Operators and Expressions

4. Structuring Code with Java Methods

5. The Android Canvas Class – Drawing to the Screen

6. Repeating Blocks of Code with Loops

7. Making Decisions with Java If, Else and Switch

8. Object-Oriented Programming

9. The Game Engine, Threads, and The Game Loop

10. Coding the Bat and Ball

11. Collisions, Sound Effects and Supporting Different Versions of Android

12. Handling Lots of Data with Arrays

13. Bitmap Graphics and Measuring Time

14. The Stack, the Heap, and the Garbage Collector

15. Android Localization -Hola!

16. Collections, Generics and Enumerations

17. Manipulating Bitmaps and Coding the Snake class

18. Introduction to Design Patterns and much more!

19. Listening with the Observer Pattern, Multitouch and Building a Particle System

20. More Patterns, a Scrolling Background and Building the Player's ship

21. Completing the Scrolling Shooter Game

22. Exploring More Patterns and Planning the Platformer Project

23. The Singleton Pattern, Java HashMap, Storing Bitmaps Efficiently and Designing Levels

24. Sprite-sheet animations, Controllable Player and Parallax Scrolling Backgrounds

25. Intelligent Platforms and Advanced Collision Detection

26. What next?

Index

Coding the game engine

Let's get started with the most significant class of this project- SnakeGame. This will be the game engine for the Snake game.

Coding the members

In the SnakeGame class that you created previously, add the following import statements along with all the member variables shown next. Study the names and the types of the variables as you add them because they will give a good insight into what we will be coding in this class.

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.AssetFileDescriptor;
import android.content.res.AssetManager;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.Point;
import android.media.AudioAttributes;
import android.media.AudioManager;
import android.media.SoundPool;
import android.os.Build;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.SurfaceHolder;
import android.view.SurfaceView;
import java.io.IOException;

class SnakeGame extends SurfaceView implements...