Many of you will have read or contributed to the very long thread I started a week ago on '[android-developers] Re: Anything on Android that can do smooth scrolling?'
That was a very useful discussion between devs and engineers on whether additional performance could be made available to fast-moving games by lowering priority or disabling other background threads. However, I wanted to create a separate thread to discuss what can be done TODAY in existing games to solve this problem. Why is it a problem? Because there is not a single game in Android Market that features smooth scrolling backgrounds. Games may not be the only app needed, but they certainly need to be visually impressive for the platform to survive. Why do I think there is a solution today? Because all components using GridView and ListView in most cases feature very smooth scrolling - if you don't believe me, go to the thumbnail scrolling view in the native picture viewer. So what I am saying is there is some magic in the GridView / ListView code which allows for smooth scrolling which games on Android platform desperately need. Despite going through the source code extensively I cannot discover what is needed to apply this to a game engine. Please could someone with a good low-level knowledge of the GridView and ListView API's please please please provide a very simple demo of how this smooth scrolling could be applied to scrolling an oversized image either horizontally or vertically. Otherwise developers are all going to try and most likely fail to figure this out themselves. Believe me I have spent many hours on this looking at Android source code, surfaceviews, onDraw, dispatchDraw, memory allocation, and nothing so far has given me anything close to smooth scrolling. And I also know game developers are competing with each other and want to guard their tricks of the trade. But ultimately, we are ALL competing with rival mobile platforms and unless this issue can be resolved, all android game developers will lose out. And the whole platform loses because there will be no quality games. Why shouldn't our games look like this after all : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4795KVt_kw --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
