Android Game Programming by Example

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "We will first add all the classes, and then update LevelManager in the usual three places."

A block of code is set as follows:

if (lm.isPlaying()) {
  // Reset the players location as 
  // the world centre of the viewport
  //if game is playing
  vp.setWorldCentre(lm.gameObjects.get(lm.playerIndex)
    .getWorldLocation().x,
    lm.gameObjects.get(lm.playerIndex)
    .getWorldLocation().y);

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