Well I'm making a 2D RPG, or at least my plan is to do that, so really the only actual graphical tools I need are for placing images, or to be more precise, placing tiles, like in SDL that a character can move on etc. Basically I don't need advanced graphical features, I really just need the basics, like timers, collision detection, menu bars etc.
On Aug 27, 5:29 pm, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want to do high performance graphics, you probably want to use > OpenGL since that will be hardware accelerated. You can use OpenGL > for 2d as much as 3d graphics. > > Otherwise, the high-level 2d APIs are very extensive; the main API is > android.graphics.Canvas, with a number of secondary classes associated > with it. Are there some features in particular that you are looking > for? > > On Aug 27, 3:34 am, crayon- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi folks, just a question about developing a 2D game on Android. > > > Namely the difficulty of it, basically I'm hoping to make a type of 2D > > RPG (in the vein of the SNES Final Fantasy games for my final year > > project in college, originally I've been doing this on C++ using SDL, > > but I think it would look far more impressive if done on Android, with > > possible touch screen. > > > Just wondering on the difficulty of doing this? I've good Java > > experience through college and I've learned a good bit about 2D > > programming through SDL, but I can't see much documentation on the 2D > > graphics in the Android SDK so I'm wondering would it be worth while > > doing? > > > Thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new Android 0.9 SDK beta! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/08/announcing-beta-release-of-android-sdk.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
