Android Question First game. Easy image animation ?

[achtrade]

Hello,

I'm about to create my first game, very simple.

What I want is move an image from left to right and vice versa. For instance, the image is in the left side, if I tap the screen, the image start to move slowly to the right until reach the right edge. That's all.

Any suggestion or tutorial to do this.

thanks.

 

[NJDude]

There are several animation libraries and samples, I suggest you search the forums.

 

[achtrade]

I did it and found a lot of tutorials, actually, now I'm reading the flappy bird clone tutorial, but this is too much for me, for now I need something very simple.

I hope someone has a tutorial for my simple animation.

 

[NJDude]

Reading game tutorials is one thing and using animation libraries is another, I'm referring to the latter.

 

[socialnetis]

Maybe the Animation library could be a start. You have several animation that you can give to the views.

 

[achtrade]

ok, I'll check it out.

Thanks.

 

[sorex]

add a timer to your program.

dim timer1 as timer
timer1.initialize("moveright",1000/25)    '1000/25 = 25 frames per second
timer1.enable=false

when they click on the image you do a

timer1.enable

in the timer tick sub you use

sub moveright_tick
if image.left=100%x-imageleft then  ' this check if the image is at the right side of the activity. 100%x is when it goes out of the screen
timer1.enable=false
else
img1.left=img1.left+1
end if
end sub

that's the basic movement, not really a library needed to do this.

you should think if a gaming lib is really needed and this depends on the complexity of the game.

 

[achtrade]

thank you sorex, I'll try that too.

 

[achtrade]

Ok guys, I could make it using AnimationPlus. Easy.

Thanks.