Beginning Android Tablet Games Programming

C H A P T E R  6

A Ball and Paddle Game

In Chapter 5, you built a simple game in which a player dodged moving bombs. This gave you an excuse to use many of features and programming concepts central to creating games on an Android tablet. In this chapter, you build a more sophisticated game.

Your big task for this chapter is to build a pong-type game in which players use a paddle to keep a ball bouncing as they attempt to hit and destroy blocks with the ball. My first experience with a mobile game was on an old Blackberry where the only offering was this simple game. I had to control the paddle with the clumsy Blackberry trackball, and the small screen size and low resolution made the effort less than satisfying. Surprisingly, that game was ...