Question

I am trying to create my first game for android. I currently have a title page with some graphics and a ‘start’ button.

What I am trying to do is load the game once the start button is pressed.

Here is my activity code:

 public class TitlePage extends Activity {

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
    getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, 
                            WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);

    setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);
    setContentView(new TitlePageView(this));
    }

The class TitlePageView deals with loading & placing the images on the canvas, checks if the button is pressed and draws some balls floating around the screen.

Once the button is pressed, I don’t really need anything at all from the TitlePageView class. Is there a way of deleting the current view, and calling setContentView() with a different view?

Answer 1

I think you have implemented your own SurfaceView class to show the game content, i.e.

public class GameView extends SurfaceView implements ...... { ....}

then in your TitlePage Activity, initilize an instance of the GameView, like:

GameView mGameView=new GameView(this);

When you want to show your game, simply call setContentView(mGameView);
Of course, you may call something like mGameView.start() to start the game.