Share My Creation Tower Mania - a little simple game

Hello All,

At first I had to say, that I am very happy to found Basic4Android, and I would like to thank you all your help.

My first Android app is a clone of the Towers of Hanoi. It is free and there is no ads on it. You can download it from the Market

I wanted to focus on the movements of the discs. First I tried use canvas layers (every disc was on different canvas) but the movements were very slow even on strong hardware. Later I drawed the items into one canvas, but then it was hard to solve, not to erase the other discs when I move one of them. Unfortunately it was also slow.
The final solution was that instead of canvases I simply use imageviews to draw the discs in one normal panel. I think it is very fast now. What do you think guys?

Ideally it must works on every resolution.

Some features:

- Three different disc kits (wood, stone, metal)
- Sound effects
- Configurable number of disks
- Saves your settings and game progress (into text files)
- Local high score tables for every level

 

[stevel05]

Works great on my old hero. No problems with the speed of the program, just the speed of my brain trying to solve it!

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[dagnabitboy]

Looks great in both my DroidX and Visio tablet. I've attached a screenshot from my tablet.

 

[ssg]

Works great on LG P500... very smooth and fun!

 

[JogiDroid]

Appears to have little problems with my Samsung Galaxy Note (1280*800, 285dpi)

 

[Malark]

Oops, it looks not too good. Thanks for the pictures.
I made the screens by runtime, not with the designer, and I watch only the Activity.width parameter. This works fine on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (also 1280x800). Could you tell me how can I get back the dpi measure of the device? Or is there any better way to handle the different densities?

 

[MrRey]

Works fine on my Impulse (Huawei U8800-51). Will try it on a low-end tablet later & report.

 

[JogiDroid]

Oops, it looks not too good. Thanks for the pictures.
I made the screens by runtime, not with the designer, and I watch only the Activity.width parameter. This works fine on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (also 1280x800). Could you tell me how can I get back the dpi measure of the device? Or is there any better way to handle the different densities?

I have not been programming much lately with B4A.. but I assume if using "dip" (device independend pixel..) units (or % units) then everything should look pretty much same in all resolutions and sizes (some scaling or layout might be needed for different aspect ratio screens 16:9, 4:3)
But that is just from my fragile memory..

 

[Malark]

Could you try it again, JogiDroid? I have just uploaded a new update to the Market. I hope it will be good on Galaxy Note also. Leastwise it was good on the emulator. Thank you in advance.

 

[JogiDroid]

Could you try it again, JogiDroid? I have just uploaded a new update to the Market. I hope it will be good on Galaxy Note also. Leastwise it was good on the emulator. Thank you in advance.

Yep, works fine now Gfx look nice too!

 

[Malark]

Yep, works fine now Gfx look nice too!

Thanks

 

[andymc]

Really nice looking game, but crashes on my Galaxy S2 when I complete the puzzle.It crashes as soon as I click on OK when I get a highscore.

 

[nad]

It's working fine on my sg2. Really nice looking game, a lot of attention to detail on design, sound and everything. 5 stars from me. Thanks a lot for sharing with us!!

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