Getting started with the Snake game

To get started, make a new project called Snake. This time, we will use the Empty Activity template as we will not be creating any UI whatsoever.

  • Rename the Activity Name to SnakeActivity.
  • Uncheck the Generate Layout File option—we do not want a layout generated as we will be laying out every pixel ourselves.
  • Uncheck Backwards Compatibility (AppCompat)—we won't need it for our game and it will still run on almost every phone and tablet. We will be working with the plain vanilla Activity class in this final project.

Note

All the code and assets for this project are in the Chapter 28 folder of the download bundle. Note that for this project, the completed game, as it will be by completing the steps up to the end of ...

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