Questions tagged [android]
Android is an operating system for mobile devices developed and maintained by Google, Inc. This tag should contain specific programming questions about Android.
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Saving player's progress in a Unity game
I am making a game using the Unity game engine. I want to save the player's progress including level, experience points, chosen character, etc. Presently I am using playerprefs but I want to know ...
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How can I develop my Android game for different phone resolutions?
For instance, the Motorola Droid is as wide as the G1, but has more height.
Should I try to spread the UI out across the extra height found on the Motorola Droid? How do others handle this problem?
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How to calculate shot angle and velocity to hit a moving target?
I am developing a 2D Android game and I am making an aiming algorithm for AI projectiles to hit enemies either following a path, or free moving. At the moment it just calculates where the target will ...
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What sprite size should I use for 2D game?
I try to create a 2D game for Android. It looks like Cut the rope (it isn't a clone but it have same level representation) if it has a value.
My problem that I can't understand that optimal sprite ...
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How to force keep the aspect ratio and specific resolution without stretching the output screen view?
I'm using Screen.SetResolution()
But when I run in Android device, it shows the output image is stretched to fill up the full screen which I don't want. I want it to keep the aspect ratio properly.
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Platformer collision problems
I am working on a platformer 2D, and i am currently focusing on collision. I have the actual rectangle(class: Rect) and i can detect if the player-model is intersepting it. However, when it comes from ...
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What's the best way to create animations when doing Android development?
I'm trying to create my first Android game and I'm currently trying to figure out (with someone that will do the drawings and another programmer) what the best way to create animation is. (Animations ...
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How do you triangulate an arbitrary polygon?
I need to triangulate a polygon for rendering in OpenGL ES on Android (no GLU triangulation available).
Is there an already known algorithm for polygon triangulation? The polygon can be convex or ...
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How to Refresh Dependencies after Adding FreeType Extension in Android Project
I'm planning to use FreeType fonts in my game (LibGDX and Android Studio) and I already added the freetype dependencies in my project. How can I refresh the dependencies after adding them? I have ...
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What should I keep in mind when making 2D games for multiple resolutions?
I'm making a 2D (Android) game. Android devices vary quite a lot in screen resolution; what do I need to keep in mind when making my game?
Do I need to keep big versions of all images and scale down ...
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When and why is a Pool class needed to hold objects?
I've been studying opengl es and an example I saw was using a "Pool" class to keep track of touch and keyboard events.
Could someone please explain how and why a pool class is needed. From what I was ...
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Should I move the world or move the player?
I'm about to start developing a sidescrolling game where the player's goal is to travel as far as he can in the horizontal axis before touching down. Note that I do not need to ever travel back on the ...
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Which Side Was Hit?
I am working on an Android game and I have two objects A and B (both rectangles) and when they collide I simply want to know which side of B was hit. I have detected the collision fine, but I am ...
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Cocos2d-x supporting multi-resolution using density independent pixels
Is there a way to use Density Independent pixels(dp) in cocos2d-x?
I am developing an Android game using Cocos2d-x 3.0.
The Android reference http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/...
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How do I approach large companies if I have a killer mobile game idea?
I have an idea for a game that has potential, but I'm not a programmer.
How do I tell this to development companies without having my idea stolen? All I want from the company is for somebody to ...
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How many threads should an Android game use?
At minimum, an OpenGL Android game has a UI thread and a Renderer thread created by GLSurfaceView. Renderer.onDrawFrame() ...
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How to design an AssetManager?
What is the best approach to designing an AssestManager that will hold references to graphics, sounds, etc. of a game?
Should these assets be stored in a key/value Map pair? I.e. I ask for "...
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Resolution Independence in libGDX
How do I make my libGDX game resolution/density independent? Is there a way to specify image sizes as "absolute" regardless of the underlying density?
I'm making a very simple kids game; just a bunch ...
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How do I create a World Healing Wave effect?
I want to change my dark and depressing background to a happy grassy background, in real-time, such that the happy background is shown in a radius around a game character.
A forcefield of happiness, ...
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2D collision detection
Let's assume I'm using this character.
(source: iconbug.com)
How would you implement collision detection for it? Using a bounding box doesn't seem to be a good approximation, because the bird's shape ...
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building a game for different resolution phones
I am starting some tests for building a game on the Android program.
So far everything is working and seems nice.
However I do not understand how to make sure my game looks correct on all phones as ...
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Will I have copyright issues making a mobile game based on an anime?
I have been wanting to create a mobile game based on some of my favorite anime.
I want to know if using character images and names from those anime (even after giving full copyright credits and ...
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Reducing mobile build size
This is my second time making and game and I want to make sure that I fit under 50 mbs. So far my plan is to fit all the games artwork into two 2048x2048 sprite sheets. I tested a empty unity3d ...
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Workaround to losing the OpenGL context when Android pauses?
The Android documentation says:
There are situations where the EGL
rendering context will be lost. This
typically happens when device wakes up
after going to sleep. When the EGL
context is ...
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What all should be happening during the "Loading" screen?
Do I just need to be creating instances of all of my graphics into memory that are loaded from file? What is the best way to handle this? Do I just need some sort of assets manager that creates ...
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Max texture size Android : which settings for 2048x2048?
I want to use a texture atlas of 2048 x 2048 in my game, and I would like to warn the users with a "too low" device to not download the game.
With a texture atlas of this size, what requirements ...
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Making (or emulating) a "D-Pad" on a touch-screen; virtual d-pad
With the proliferation of touch based devices, many lacking a true D-Pad, I'm wondering if anyone has any resources on how to emulate a D-Pad on a touch screen? I'm specifically interested in XNA and/...
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Fitting Android game to different screen sizes
I am making an Android game that is only in portrait screen orientation. It works great when I run it on my phone, but when I run it on a tablet, even though the screen size is bigger, all of the ...
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Android: Angry Birds Scaling
Anyone have any idea how the scaling is accomplished in angry birds? I want to make sure my images/background always scale to match the screensize and this game seems to have a similar effect. I ...
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How can I reliably implement GPU skinning in Android?
I'm trying to get character skinning working on Android.
The idea is quite vanilla: I have my skinning matrices, and along with each vertex, I send up to four matrix indices and four corresponding ...
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Resolution problems when porting a Unity game to Android
So, I'm porting a game to the Android for the first time in Unity3D. And I've run in to a few problems along the way. My current problem is the resolution doesn't seem to be right, it cuts off the ...
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How to handle pixel-perfect collision detection with rotation?
Does anyone have any ideas how to go about achieving rotational pixel-perfect collision detection with Bitmaps in Android? Or in general for that matter? I have pixel arrays currently but I don't know ...
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What do you use to support multiplayer turn-based network game for iOS and Android games?
If I'm doing a turn-based card game, what kind of technique do you use to support multiplayer gameplay over Internet?
Is it socket? If it's socket, which SDK (CoronaSDK etc.) can provide solid ...
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How do I get smooth edges with OpenGL on Android?
Here is a screenshot that maybe makes clear what my problem is.
I'm only drawing 2D circles with OpenGL.
I already read the following:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3512456/how-to-draw-...
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How can I deploy an Android game without going through the marketplace?
How do I deploy an Android app without publishing it in the marketplace?
Let me back up a minute. I have short release cycles (2-4 weeks or less), and I would like to release a partially complete, ...
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How do I store level-data in Android?
I'm building a game where enemies come in waves. I want to create a file where I can define data about the waves (# of enemies, spawn times, speeds, etc.). I come from a background in iOS and would ...
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How do I implement an AutoParallax Background in AndEngine GLES1?
I'm using AndEngine GLES1. In my game, I use AnalogOnScreenControl to move a sprite and when it moves vertically, the background image also moves vertically. I want to do something like this: that is ...
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Why does my position interpolation code result in "jumpy" motion?
I am developing an android game with box2d and use a fixed timestep system for advancing the physics.
However as I use this system it requires the box2d positions to be interpolates. I read this ...
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How can I play user-provided music stored on the phone inside my game?
I am creating a car game. Is any way to play the music stored on the phone inside the game? I'd like the player to choose files that are already on their device and hear them played in the game.
For ...
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Efficiently detecting objects inside multiple radius
I would like to create a game for mobile that require to calculate multiple time by seconds which moving objects are in the radius of moving points. The game is highly inspired from Gratuitous Space ...
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per pixel based collision detection
I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to get per pixel collision detection for the android. I saw that the andEngine has great collision detection on rotation as well but couldn't see where ...
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Moving sprites using the accelerometer (Android)
In my previous game, I was moving my sprite like so:
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OpenGL ES 2.0 gluUnProject
I've spent more time than I should trying to get my ray picking program working. I'm pretty convinced my math is solid with respect to line plane intersection, but I believe the problem lies with the ...
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How to make a sprite jump up and then return to original position android java
I am just starting out in game development and I am trying to make a simple android game using GDXLib. I want to make my sprite "ball" jump straight up in the air and then return to where it ...
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Game is responding very slowly?
I have a very simple app which removes buttons and re-adds buttons to certain layouts when a button is clicked. The problem is, this process is taking a very long time. My question is: How can I make ...
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Can I publish the games I learnt from tutorials and modified as per my style of game-play? [duplicate]
I am new to the world of making games and all. Well its been a few months or so. There are many tutorials that I have been watching. On the way, I made a few games that I saw and made. I am not asking ...
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Is there a way to use the RGB channels of a texture as the alpha channel when applying multitexturing using OpenGL ES 1.1?
I have been trying to get texture compression using ETC1 (specifically PKM files) working for some time now. I am trying to do this without having to upgrade to OpenGL ES 2 so I have been using multi-...
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Landscape mode for game?
TL;DR: I have made 8 new layouts for each activity layout, but they are not showing up. For example, I have a layout-land directory with a layout, but that layout ...
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In Android, neat way to send input info from `GLSurfaceView` to `onDrawFrame` in `GLSurfaceView.Renderer`?
The input is pinch/drag for camera movement, which modifies a matrix to scale/translate, and sent to a vertex shader. It's working, but ugly.
What's the proper way to do it?
I've noticed:
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