Android Game Programming by Example

The PlayerShip object

We need to keep the model part of our code as separate as possible from the rest. We can do this by creating a class for our player's spaceship. Let's call our new class PlayerShip.

Go ahead and add a new class to the project, and call it PlayerShip. Here are a few quick steps on how to do that. Now, right-click the folder with our .java files in it and navigate to New | Java Class, then enter PlayerShip as the name and click on OK.

What do we need our PlayerShip class to be able to know about itself? As a bare minimum it needs to:

• Know where it is on the screen
• What it looks like
• How fast it is flying

These requirements suggest a few member variables we can declare. Enter the code just after the class declaration that we generated: ...