The SurfaceView is fine for games, at least simple ones. Have a look at the LunarLander sample.
http://developer.android.com/guide/samples/LunarLander/index.html On Jul 21, 9:33 pm, klirr <haskell...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use SurfaceView for my game, tried normal View first but that was to > slow. > Problem is, it still is. The redrawing just isn't anywhere fast enough > for a game. So unless it is a lot faster on the real phone this won't > cut it at all. > Is it necessary to use OpenGL for games? > > package com.android.shmup; > > import android.app.Activity; > import android.content.Context; > import android.graphics.*; > import android.os.Bundle; > import android.view.View; > import android.view.KeyEvent; > > public class Shmup extends Activity { > > @Override > protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { > super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); > setContentView(new GameView(this)); > } > > private static class GameView extends View { > private Paint mPaint = new Paint(); > private int x; > private int y; > > public GameView(Context context) { > super(context); > x = 135; > y = 303; > setFocusable(true); > requestFocus(); > } > > @Override > protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) { > Paint paint = mPaint; > canvas.translate(10, 10); > canvas.drawColor(Color.rgb(184,134,11)); > paint.setColor(Color.rgb(107,142,35)); > paint.setStrokeWidth(1); > canvas.drawRect(x, y, x+30, y+7, paint); > canvas.drawRect(x+10, y+7, x+20, y+27, paint); > canvas.drawRect(x+5, y+27, x+25, y+32, paint); > } > > @Override > public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) { > if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_UP) { > y -= 3; > invalidate(); > } else if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_LEFT) { > x -= 3; > invalidate(); > } else if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_DOWN) { > y += 3; > invalidate(); > } else if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_RIGHT) { > x += 3; > invalidate(); > } > return true; > } > > } > > > > } --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
