Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Running the demo application on Android
The starter class for the Android application is called
MainActivity.java
. For a
Gradle-based project, the starter class will be
AndroidLauncher.java
.
The following listing is
MainActivity.java
from
demo-android
:
package com.packtpub.libgdx.demo;
import android.os.Bundle;
import com.badlogic.gdx.backends.android.AndroidApplication;
import com.badlogic.gdx.backends.android.
AndroidApplicationConfiguration;
public class MainActivity extends AndroidApplication {
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
AndroidApplicationConfiguration cfg = new
AndroidApplicationConfiguration();
initialize(new MyDemo(), cfg);
}
}
In the preceding code listing, you can see the
MainActivity
class that is inherited
from the
AndroidApplication
class. This is how LibGDX encapsulates tasks such as
creating a so-called activity that registers handlers to process touch input, read sensor
data, and much more. What is left to do for you is to create an instance of a class that
implements the
ApplicationListener
interface. In this case, it is an instance of the
MyDemo
class. The instances of
MyDemo
and
AndroidApplicationConfiguration
are
passed as arguments to the
initialize()
method. If you are interested in the latest
development of Android hardware statistics, be sure to check out the
Dashboards
section on the official Android developer website (
http://developer.android.com/
