Chapter 11: Implement the GameEngine

Finally it's time for some Java coding!

Start with removing the three "Toast.makeText" lines from JustRoidsActivity.java, as we already tested the page navigation and I only added them to show an example of the simplest possible tracing functionality.

I also set back "Project Build Target" to Android 2.1, so that Eclipse is able to stop me from writing code that won't work on 2.1.

Given that, I must also comment out the AdActivity from the manifest file. (I will put it back before publishing the app):

        <!--
        <activity 
            android:name="com.google.ads.AdActivity"
            android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize"
        />
        -->

package com.ajomannen.justroids;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.Paint.Style;

public class GameEngine {

  public float screenWidth;
  public float screenHeight;
  private Paint blackPaint;
  private Paint textPaint;
  private String currentTimeString;

  public void Init(Context context) {
    setSurfaceDimensions(240, 160);

    blackPaint = new Paint();
    blackPaint.setColor(Color.BLACK);
    blackPaint.setStyle(Style.FILL);

    textPaint = new Paint();
    textPaint.setColor(Color.LTGRAY);
    textPaint.setTextSize(40);
  }

  public void onDestroy() {
    try {
    } catch (Exception e) {
    }
  }

  public void setSurfaceDimensions(int width, int height) {
    screenWidth = width;
    screenHeight = height;
  }

  public void Update() {
    currentTimeString = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss").format(new Date());
  }

  public void Draw(Canvas canvas) {
    canvas.drawRect(0, 0, canvas.getWidth(), canvas.getHeight(), blackPaint);
    canvas.drawText(currentTimeString, 30, 100, textPaint);
  }

}

• An Init method, in which we handle everything that needs to be set up at program startup.
• An onDestroy event handler, which is currently empty.
• A setSurfaceDimensions that we need to call from our future GameSurface class.
• The classic Update and Draw methods, that are the core in any real-time game.

(Just to have something to update and draw, I put the current time into a text string and draw it onto screen.)