If you want to use 3D graphics then you need to brush up your OpenGL
knowledge and optionally use one of the available game engines out there
that also support Android.
If it's 2D and performance is not a big concern then you can write your own
custom View for that map (you also could create your 2D game in OpenGL by
the way).
Your custom map view would:
- respond to touch gestures through View.onTouchEvent
- Pinch-to-zoom
- panning
- touching game objects for interaction
- have an internal representation of the game map
- ...which could be composed of a grid of X * Y tiles
- Or it could be one big space image
- Preferably also split in tiles so you can stay compatible with
older Android version that don't have
android.graphics.BitmapRegionDecoder
- have an internal representation of all game objects and their
positions:
- ships, planets etc.
- have an internal zoom factor
- x/y coordinates of the current map translation
- This is the point you are looking at right now on your map
- implement onDraw to:
- render the currently visible part of the map by:
- draw the background first
- draw the game object
- draw the UI in the end
On
Saturday, November 10, 2012 10:44:07 AM UTC-6, tlegras wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am starting the development of a strategy game. For that I would like to
> develop an interactive galaxy map with objects (basically planets,
> spaceships). Note this would NOT be a real time game, but a turn by turn
> game.
> What is the best way to start knowing I would like a typical mapview touch
> controls (scroll, zoom) but of course with my own map content :)
> - ViewGroup and I develop everything?
> - Custom MapView?
> - Some higher level android or google class
> - third party open source toolkit
>
> Any suggestion welcome
> Thierry.
>
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