Android : Game Math / Logic Calulating Movement?
Aug 26, 2010
I know this is more of a general programming question, but my Android friends here have always been helpful. I am trying to make an image move from one part of the screen to a position the user touches, as a constant speed. I don't know the best way to go about doing this and the way I have been trying to get to work is taxing my brain too much.
I have been using geometry to calculate slope, then using Sin * movement speed to calculate the difference in X,Y coordinates.
This is the codecode...
The problem that I'm having is the image is veering way of course when traveling in Y heavy paths. When traveling horizontally it works almost perfect.
I know there is probably an easier way though I don't know how to use a lot of things (like OpenGLES) so if your advice is to use a different method please link a tutorial for that method if you know of one.
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Mar 7, 2010
I'd like to announce the release on the Android Market of our last creation: 1 Minute Game. The main concept is very simple. The computer shows puzzles based on numbers, shapes and colours: the player must solve them and touch the correct answer to go to the next round, trying to be as fast as possible. We implemented 3 different modes that must be unlocked by playing more and more. You can play games under the "Training" areas so to train yourself and challenge your friends locally (there are 6 slots to store the profiles of the players).
Online Challenge
But the core of 1 Minute Game is the online challenge, which allows the players (once per day) to play a special match and to send the result to an online leader board. Each score shows also the nationality selected by each player try to get your country at top of the ranking. The ranking is visible both through the application and visiting the web site of the game.
Free DLC
In order to make the game more appealing and let you enjoy it for more time, we are developing new games to be released for free in the next versions of the application. For example, this morning (it's a matter of minutes) we will release the version 1.1 which contains a brand new game in the training section: The intruder. In each round, all of the objects shown on the screen share the same characteristic (same shape, colour, number or animation) except for one: that's the Intruder!
New games of logic will be released once they are completed and fully tested through future news.
LITE version
There is also a LITE version in the Market: 1 Minute Game LITE (limited number of levels, no online challenge and 2 slots to store the users' profiles), so you can try it and see if it is worth to buy the Full one. This LITE version includes the additional training "The Intruder" as well.
DOWNLOAD
the game can be downloaded from the Android Market. Just search for its name or click on these links with the browser of your Android smartphone:
FULL version - market://search?q=pname:com.wepromite.oneminutegame
LITE version - market://search?q=pname:com.wepromite.oneminutegamelite
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Aug 24, 2010
Now I have (1: the UI-loop, there my SurfaceView is placed), (2: a second thread, there the draw function from the UI-loop is called AND the update calculations from my Engine) and (3: the engine, there all the calculations stuff are).Now I wonder how the best and smoothest way to do the SurfaceView independent from the actual frame rate. How shall I do so it will compensate if there is a low frame rate?
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Jul 25, 2010
I've read the article "Supporting Multiple Screen" on Android developers site. But that doesn't apply to game logic.Let me get straight to the point. My situation is as follows:
- I'm creating a game using LunarLander code as a base.
- In my game, there'll be an object flying up from the bottom of the screen. The object will fly in projectile motion.
- I set the starting velocity, gravity and angle so that the highest point(of projectile motion) is almost at the top of the screen.
- The screen tested is Motorola Milestone. (480x854 resolution) Meaning the object travels around 854 pixels vertically.
I'm thinking of adjusting starting velocity based on screensizes. But that sounds unreliable when we've so many devices/resolutions out there. How do you combat these kind of problem when making games?
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Apr 8, 2010
Surprisingly, I don't seem to have issues with the OpenGL side of things (which is very unusual), but my problems stem from getting a clear idea for app architecture and a few other problems. Right now, most tutorials on the net just describe the render portion. I know that when I create a GLSurfaceView and hook a Renderer into it, it uses it's own thread for rendering.
I want to do logic operations and other gameplay stuff (like moving characters and whatnot) in it's own thread as well. Can anyone explain a good approach to this? I'm guessing the two threads will have to be synchronized (do logic, render, repeat), and limited based on time so that it performs smoothly across different devices.
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Aug 6, 2009
Im the developer of a fairly new app the Math Alarm Clock. A month ago I looked for alarm clock which was a challenge to turn off and didnt find any on the market so I developed this. Basically you tell it how hard you want the math (4 levels of difficulty) from (5*8) to [(17*19)- 16*12)]. It is smart enough to never give you stupid easy questions such as (73-73) or (1*10). Then choose how many in a row you must answer correctly from 1 to 6 to turn off the alarm. Specify a few math-free snoozes if you like to snooze a few times before entering math. Or turn the math off completely and use it as a regular alarm.
The other unique feature is the music alarm. Of the other alarm clocks I found one required you to change music into a ringtone and the other only allowed you to pick one song. This alarm clock allows you to choose an individual song or choose a random song from a specific artist or a random song from a specific album.
And for any Canadian Rogers Dream or Magic users you may have noticed other alarm clocks will completely crash your phone and require a factory reset. This has been fixed in the Math Alarm Clock and it should work with no problem on HTC based phones.
Lastly as the comments point out, I respond to feedback very fast and for the most part have requested features implemented within 24 hours.
The last few comments:
"This developer rocks! I requested a feature and it was added within hours. This is the best alarm clock for the G1 hands down!" 5/5
"Great app, developer is quick to update. Highly recommend!" 5/5
"Awesome app!" 5/5
"Amazing! The only alarm that actually wakes me up" 5/5
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Jan 12, 2010
I need maths for my game physics and lots of them, so I use the. Math library. And guess what? I never casted so much to floats in my entire life. And i know how costly it is to use doubles on an embedded device because I read the performance optimization page in the google android sdk docs. So I am wondering if we couldn't get a Math package with functions taking and returning floats instead of the default doubles. e.g. Math.sinf Math.cosf.
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May 24, 2009
Using arc tangents for interpreting accelerometers seems to be a pretty easy way to go to get a desired result. I just benchmarked (float)Math.atan2(x,y) and it's a very slow function. I checked FloatMath for Android 1.0 SDK and it has sin and cos but no tan or atan. Is there a faster way to do this?
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Oct 17, 2010
I want to create a mobile learning for an high school. Is there a way to display math notation like square, exponent etc in textview? Or should we use another component?
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Mar 1, 2009
Is there any Listener able to listen for shake movement. when someone shakes the phone an event should be triggered ,how I'm supposed to do that ,any idea on this topic is appreciable.
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Apr 8, 2010
Imagine to have the device perpendicular to the table, in portrait. The Z axis is watching to you and the Y axis to the sky. I want to measure the device's movement speed when I rotate it on the X axis. How can i get it?
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Mar 31, 2010
I am looking for a tutorial that explains the logic for fast, robust location finding.Basically I am sick of Google Maps finding my location so incredibly fast and accurately while my own application struggles to get a location.I would be fine with pseudo code responses and I will explain what I am doing so maybe I can be shown what I am doing wrong.
1. Get the locationManager object.
2. Do a 'get best provider' call.
3. Get a list of all available providers.
4. lm.requestLocationUpdates(bestProvider, 0, 0, this); hit the location provider as much as I can to get my first signal
5. Send a delayed message.If a location cannot be found in 10 seconds, switch to a different provider and try again with lm.requestLocationUpdates(nextProvider, 0, 0, this);
6. Repeat step 5 until I have a location.
7. Once a location is found determine if it is the most accurate provider.If it is not try again with the most accurate provider on an 8 second delay.If it is the most accurate provider then set lm.requestLocationUpdates(currentProvider, 30000, 0, this); to conserve battery
8. Make sure to lm.removeUpdates(this); before changing the requestLocationUpdates
Now it occurs to me that it may be possible to iterate through my list of providers and do requestLocationUpdates for all providers at once.Is this a viable option or can you only listen to one provider at a time?I have seen that location from onLocationChanged has getProvider()to let you know who provided the location information so that I can know which provider is actually finding a signal and turn off the others.
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Jun 19, 2009
I have a ListView. When I click a row Item (which are just TextView instances) I want them to remain hilighted (default orange color). The default behavior is that they flash orange.
Strangely, if I use the key pad (arrow up/down) to move between items, it has the exact behavior I want. Why is the logic different between using the keypad or with finger tapping?
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Nov 6, 2010
I am working on an application where i will track the movement of the android device inside a building... suppose i display a map of the building in the android emulator... Now,i need to simulate the movement of the android device.... is there a way in which i can control the movement of the android device and see the real time movement of the device in the map ... like a dot moving in the map .... Is this possible to do using the android emulator? when i googled this requirement, i came across SensorSimulator...But,this software shows the acceleration,magnetic field and temperature values... It doesnt display the co-ordinate values....
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Dec 27, 2009
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Dec 27, 2009
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Jul 26, 2010
I have a LinearLayout that contains many views stacked vertically. However, at the bottom, I have an EditText.
Desired Result:-
When the keyboard popps up upon clicking the EditText, ONLY the EditText scrolls up while the rest of the screen remains static as it is. Is this possible? If yes how?
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May 1, 2010
I am calling a PreferenceActivity from another activity and then updating the application state (ie: changing the font size) on onActivityResult, based on the preference changes. I was thinking it would be better to put the state update logic in the PreferenceActivity. That way I don't have the duplicate the logic in each activity that calls the PreferenceActivity. What's the best or correct way to do this?
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Sep 10, 2009
I would like to detect shake movement in a service that is running in the background, even when the phone is not currently being used. Is it true that the only way to do this is to hold a wake lock? I suppose this would consume a lot of energy and drain the battery very fast.Is there no way to wake up the phone whenever a shake movement occurs? Maybe with the native sdk? I would imagine the accelerometer causing some kind of interrupt.
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I remember watching a commercial or seeing something about this phone where you could take a picture of lets say a math problem and then search it up on google. Is this true and is it an app that all android OS phones can use?
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May 14, 2010
In the spirit of using existing, tested and stable libraries of code, I started using the Apache-Commons-Math library and its BigFraction class to perform some rational calculations for an Android app I'm writing called RationalCalc.
It works great for every task that I have thrown at it, except for one nagging problem. When dividing certain BigFraction values, I am getting incorrect results.
If I create a BigFraction with the inverse of the divisor and multiply instead, I get the same incorrect answer but perhaps that is what the library is doing internally anyway.
Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
The division works correctly with a BigFraction of 2.5 but not 2.51, 2.49, etc...
[UPDATE]
This was indeed a bug in the apache-commons-math 2.0 libraries. The bug is fixed in v.2.1.
It is now listed in the Fixed Issues section of the bug tracker:
When multiplying two BigFraction objects with numerators larger than will fit in an java-primitive int the result of BigFraction.ZERO is incorrectly returned..attempting to reproduce the issue and setting me on the right track.
CODE:.....................
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Feb 4, 2010
There has to be a better calculator out there, I mean CA MON! I am not looking for a scientific or some uber math calculus crazy calculator but I am looking for something that isn't so .
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Apr 20, 2010
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Jan 25, 2013
My stats:
LG L35g Optimus Logic from Net10
Running Android 2.3.6
It is rooted.
Clockworkmod 5.8.4.5
Okay, first off this is totally my fault that this phone is stuck.
I was inside the About menu of android and saw there was an update for 2.3.6
So, stupidly, I decided to select it. It downloaded the update, rebooted, and then wound up at the clockworkmod recovery screen.
I tried the "reboot system now" option, but it just reboots back to the recovery screen.
I have used the "wiped data/factory reset" option. I've wiped the cache partition and Dalvik cache.
I didn't backup the stock rom, so I found these two roms for the l35g from here:
AA51
Stock (user modded version)
I used the restore option in recovery mode, but the "Stock" rom above didn't take. The AA51 rom did install fully and told me to reboot. I did, but it still went right back into the boot-loop!
I think the solution to this is to fix the boot-loop issue. Would Zengarden or Xionia work? Then, if so, I need a version of it to work with the l35g.
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Jun 30, 2010
I want to capture the finger movement direction on Android touch phone. If a user slides his finger in up/down/left/right direction, I want to capture this direction.
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May 22, 2010
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Nov 12, 2010
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Nov 2, 2010
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case 1: Overlapping fields
when the same field exists in two or more contacts. Say they have two different last names or emails in different accounts. Does the contacts app show both fields with an account indicator?
case 2: Non overlapping fileds
one rawcontact has email while the other one has phone number
Short of scouring the source code, I have exhausted searching everywhere else.
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Oct 16, 2010
I got Samsung Galaxy 5.
I got some gameloft games (HD versions) installed but as I Run them only Top left (approx 1/4)view of game screen appers.
As whole game can not to fitted on one screen..
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It looks like half of screen is cut like on "oft" of Gameloft is invisible
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