Question

I’m new to android, and I’m trying my best to create a game. I’m trying to create a gameover screen for my game, and I though the best way to do that was to create an activity for a gameover screen. However, I’m not sure how to go about doing this.The problem seems to be that I cannot create an intent anywhere other than the activity class. So I can’t see when the game should end, and then create a new activity without it being in the activity class. So I’m having trouble connecting my game model to my activity class, so that when the player dies, it would trigger a gameover activity. Where in my activity class should I put this information?

Answer 1

You would place code such as (assuming your activity is GameOverScreen extends Activity):

Intent gameOverScreen = new Intent(this, GameOverScreen.class);
startActivity(gameOverScreen);

To do so from outside the activity (since startActivity() is a public method of the Activity class), you’d just do like this, using the instance of your game activity that I call gameScreen in this example:

Intent gameOverScreen = new Intent(gameScreen, GameOverScreen.class);
gameScreen.startActivity(gameOverScreen);

You should probably have a reference to the instance of your game activity stored to the model as a Context object at least for resources.