Thanks Stoyan - I look forward to trying out your code. Very much appreciated.
On Mar 30, 8:30 pm, Stoyan Damov <stoyan.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > I will try to code a demo which does side scrolling tonight, but I > don't know opengl, so I won't use it. > > My phone is getting worse every day (I haven't used it as phone as a > matter of fact for a while) but in case it does manage to show smooth > scrolling, in the 5 seconds idle period, when it's not attempting to > send an MMS to the GOD DAMN myFaves service (and thus trigger GC), > I'll post the code. > > Cheers > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:36 AM, admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com > > <admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
