Learning Java by Building Android Games - Second Edition

Summary

In the second and final chapter of the Bullet Hell project, we put the finishing touches on the game by adding timing and the Bob class.

We also dealt with initializing and drawing a bitmap to represent a game object for the first time. In all the future projects bitmaps will play a much bigger role and we will do things like move them, scale them, rotate them and even animate a running Bob from them.

With our new-found skills and experience, we can now learn some more important Java and Android topics like:

• The stack and the heap
• Garbage collection (yeah, that's a Java thing)
• Localization to add foreign language support
• More encapsulation to keep our code from becoming too sprawling
• Collections
• Enumerations
• Saving the high score forever
• Much ...