Learning Java by Building Android Games - Second Edition

Entering the nth dimension with Arrays

We very briefly mentioned that an array can even hold other arrays at each position. And of course, if an array holds lots of arrays that in turn hold lots of some other type; how do we access the values in the contained arrays? And why would we ever need this anyway? Look at this next example of where multidimensional arrays can be useful.

Multidimensional Array mini app

Let's make a simple multidimensional array example. You can get the working project for this example in the download bundle. It is in the Chapter 12/Multidimensional Array Example/MainActivity.java.

Create a project with an empty Activity and call it Multidimensional Array Example. Leave the Activity name at the default it is not important. ...