I have been using a simple 3rd party game engine, from the book
"Beginning Android Games".
The example code uses a fixed resolution (320 x 480) and this is
scaled on output. Not surprisingly, the bitmaps and everything else is
scaled and looks pretty poor.
My code is set up to use the native resolution of the device and
handles scaling internally. I can modify the code to use whatever
resolution I want, and this works fine.
In this engine, the graphics and almost everything else is handled
through abstract classes and interfaces.
The way the game engine is set up, it doesn't actually use the Android
graphics engine until after the game environment is set up. The first
place that I can get hold of the actual resolution through SurfaceView
is in the "run" loop, way after the game engine has been initialised.
I need the screen resolution *before* I set up the location of sprites
and game state. Modifying the engine to move the game setup into the
run method would break lots of other things.
Can anybody tell me how I can get the actual hardware resolution of
the device (so I can set up the game objects properly) without waiting
until the "run" method which has access to SurfaceView?
dstRec in the following gives me the resolution, but this is way to
late for me to use when setting up the game.
public void run() {
Rect dstRect = new Rect();
long startTime = System.nanoTime();
while(running) {
if(!holder.getSurface().isValid())
continue;
float deltaTime = (System.nanoTime()-startTime) /
1000000000.0f;
startTime = System.nanoTime();
game.getCurrentScreen().update(deltaTime);
game.getCurrentScreen().present(deltaTime);
Canvas canvas = holder.lockCanvas();
canvas.getClipBounds(dstRect);
canvas.drawBitmap(framebuffer, null, dstRect,
null);
holder.unlockCanvasAndPost(canvas);
}
}
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