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Learning Java by Building Android Games - Third Edition

You're reading from  Learning Java by Building Android Games - Third Edition

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800565869
Pages 686 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
John Horton John Horton
Profile icon John Horton

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Java, Android, and Game Development 2. Chapter 2: Java – First Contact 3. Chapter 3: Variables, Operators, and Expressions 4. Chapter 4: Structuring Code with Java Methods 5. Chapter 5: The Android Canvas Class – Drawing to the Screen 6. Chapter 6: Repeating Blocks of Code with Loops 7. Chapter 7: Making Decisions with Java If, Else, and Switch 8. Chapter 8: Object-Oriented Programming 9. Chapter 9: The Game Engine, Threads, and the Game Loop 10. Chapter 10: Coding the Bat and Ball 11. Chapter 11: Collisions, Sound Effects, and Supporting Different Versions of Android 12. Chapter 12: Handling Lots of Data with Arrays 13. Chapter 13: Bitmap Graphics and Measuring Time 14. Chapter 14: Java Collections, the Stack, the Heap, and the Garbage Collector 15. Chapter 15: Android Localization – Hola! 16. Chapter 16: Collections and Enumerations 17. Chapter 17: Manipulating Bitmaps and Coding the Snake Class 18. Chapter 18: Introduction to Design Patterns and Much More! 19. Chapter 19: Listening with the Observer Pattern, Multitouch, and Building a Particle System 20. Chapter 20: More Patterns, a Scrolling Background, and Building the Player's Ship 21. Chapter 21: Completing the Scrolling Shooter Game 22. Chapter 22: What Next? 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Every object is a GameObject

This class will become a living-breathing (or flying-shooting or diving) combination of our various components.

Create the GameObject class and add the import statements and constructor shown here:

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.PointF;
class GameObject {
    private Transform mTransform;
    private boolean isActive = false;
    private String mTag;
    private GraphicsComponent graphicsComponent;
    private MovementComponent movementComponent;
    private SpawnComponent spawnComponent;
}

Here, we can see that we have an instance of the Transform class called mTransform. In addition, we have a boolean member variable called isActive. This will act as an indicator of whether the object is currently in use or not. The mTag variable will be...

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