Question

I am making an app in Android wherein I require to move an image through a parabolic curve. Consider something like the famous Angry Birds game. The path followed by those birds is what I desire in the app that I am building.

I am bit weak at mathematics and geometry and hence cannot understand the equations and their implementations. Can anyone help what I need to achieve an image in a parabolic curve.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Ok well to begin with you need to have at least a basic understanding of mathematics and equations. If you don’t and aren’t willing to learn, you won’t be able to get anywhere. Even if we give you an implementation, you need to know enough to be able to give the proper input…

That being said, you probably want a bezier curve: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve

That wikipedia article is excellent and includes a couple of different curves (2d and 3d) that will work and equations that are relatively easy to translate to code.

If you simply want a curved animation, see: Problem to achieve curved animation

The class I posted in response to that question takes in a start, a middle, and an end point which it uses to create a curve and animate a view along.