I am trying to develop several Android games that work on a grid system. I will need to update the game surface frequently, so using a GridLayout
does not seem to be a good option. The frequent updates to the game surface would be similar to what you see in Plants vs Zombies: the user can interact with parts of the grid, but the sprites representing the computer opponent will always be moving until the level ends.
I want to sublcass SurfaceView
but give it many of the built-in properties of a GridLayout
(ex. I want to allow the user to drop a game object in a grid cell and have that object start animating within the bounds of the grid cell, so I would want row and column indexes built in to my custom SurfaceView
) but that's a lot of work.
Do you now if something like this already exists?
Is it better to just use a "normal" SurfaceView
and somehow keep track of where on the SurfaceView
the grid lines should fall, maybe using a HashMap or something to track the vertices of all the grid cells? That seems like a lot of work and I don't want to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to.
I'm looking for design device or recommendations on free libraries (*.jar) that I could use to accomplish this goal efficiently. I'm coding in plain old Android Studio so no Unity access :(