Hello, Been learning Android over the last 2 months. I am currently working on an game that is a turn based board game. It currently has a main layout that uses a spinner and an adapter to pull a list of saved games out of a sqlite db. It also has a new game function that stores initial game settings in the db. I have now moved on to getting the initial board and player controls drawn when a new game is started or when a saved game is selected.
I first learned to create the board with standard drawLine & drawRect commands. I used the width and height in onSizeChanged to calculate how and where to place each part of the board. This method works great for all screen sizes. I can calculate exactly what controls a player touches or what squares a player touches. But I am no artist, so if figure if I want better graphics I will need to hire someone to create bitmaps for me, instead of just drawing the board. My question about doing this with bitmaps is that since I need to calculate exactly what area of the board has been touched - both for specific player commands and to know what square to put the piece in, how do I calculate that with using bitmaps when there are so many screensizes that the bitmaps will be scaled to. For example, I watched a Google I/O 2010 video where it showed an example of how a bitmap would be scaled and although you can prescale the width and height to whatever you want, the actual pixels for say a "boarder" may end up being 2 pixels wide or 4 pixels wide or 1 - depending on the image and how the system scales it. But for my game, I would need to know exactly how wide the boarders are, their location and exactly where each square block is on every screen resolution in order to know what area has been touched. So, far everything I have found just shows how to scale bitmaps and used the three standard densities in the drawable directories. What I wonder about the drawable directories is if I created three sizes for different densities wouldn't the system just scale it to a different size anyway sometimes, because there are more than 3 screen sizes out there. From what I read there used to be 5 and now there are even more with the tablets. I would appreciate it, if someone could point me in the right direction to learn how to calculate specific locations on a background bitmap (in this case a background board game) no matter what dimensions the bitmap is resized to. Thank you, --Mike -- 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
